welcome to hogwarts college, SEVERUS SNAPE! a lot has changed since we last saw you around — you’ve got twenty - four hours until your next class starts up. lukas von horbatschewsky is now taken.
( lukas von horbatschewsky, twenty - one, trans man ) hey, was that SEVERUS SNAPE passing by? so much has happened recently; I haven’t seen the HALF - BLOOD in forever, but I’d recognize HIM anywhere. rumor has it the THIRD year is studying to be a POTIONEER. they always reminded me of DANNY DON’T YOU KNOW BY NINJA SEX PARTY. I’ve also heard they’ve been recruited by THE DEATH EATERS. but despite all that I think they’re still INDEPENDENT, INTELLIGENT, & BRAVE and PESSIMISTIC, STUBBORN, & SARCASTIC. and the SLYTHERIN alum still reminds me of dark hair and a crooked smile, angry, hot tears and angry screams as you destroy everything in your path, skilled hands carefully chopping and stirring, bent over a smoking cauldron, quiet watching from the sidelines, sarcastic quips & tiny amused smirks. well, then, I guess some things never change. ( caboose, 27, cst, he/they )
Hello guys, so I mentioned that my friend wanted an essay for why I hated Snape. This is my opinion and is mainly factual and canon but I could be a little bit wrong. If you like him, good for you but I don’t. So if you like him and don’t want to here hate for him, don’t read below the cut.
Thank you.
- Lottie.
Although Severus Snape is shown as a fallen hero, dying at the hands of the Dark Lord he had once been a loyal servant of, for his valiant defiance and taking a lead role of the right side, this is a great mistake. Yes, he did defy Voldemort and join the Order. Yes, he did die for joining this side. But all of his actions can be shown to only better himself alone and no one else- most importantly his reason for joining the Order in the first place.
Granted there may be several other reasons as to why he decided to change sides during the war, but the only clear and valid suggestion would be because of his one true love- Lily Evans. Just prior to him moving sides in the war Lily was brutally killed due to the fact that her son was one of two possible chosen ones that could overthrow Voldemort. Due to her demise Snape moved to the Order to pretty much get revenge on Voldemort for killing his love. However, having been a spy within the order previously he knew that all death eaters would be imprisoned in Azkaban, so logically joining the Order was a better option that getting the dementors kiss.
To continue from the previous, point the one clear reason why Snape isn’t a good guy is he was a death eater. Granted he changed his ways however that doesn’t really mean much. He willingly joined Voldemort and complied to everything he told him to do, there was no coercion involved. It isn’t surprising that he had become a death eater, as from a very young age he had an interest in the dark arts. Unlike most of the others who later turned to Voldemort, he introduced himself to the dark arts, having a fascination in it and happily joining his fellow Slytherins later who all later became death eaters also.
Although he personally had no involvement in the attack of Mary Macdonald he was friends with Mulciber and would have likely been one of the many Slytherin students whom considered her being attacked with the dark arts as a joke.
There is no doubt that he was smart. He was very intelligent. He has been stated to have known more elements of the dark arts as a first year than most seventh years, as well as having creating many spells himself- even if they weren’t all so great. Although he was an intelligent person when it came to books, his personal skills and ideals weren’t so adept. Even though he himself is a half-blood he shows extreme prejudices against muggleborn students and half-bloods throughout his childhood along with as a professor. The only true close relationship he had was with Lily Evans which isn’t surprising that he then became infatuated with her. He has many issues with attachments due to a shitty home life and didn’t grow up in the best environment but that isn’t a justification for his behaviour as pretty much everyone in the Harry Potter universe had problems.
Lily stood by him against her fellow Gryffindors dislike towards him, always being a loyal friend even when he did stuff that she knew was incorrect as she had hope for him. The only thing that stopped this was the fact that he referred to her as a mudblood, one of the harshest words and racial slurs within the wizarding world. Rightfully so she stopped being his friend and began to hate him. This is after he has made it very clearly that he despises muggleborns but tries to differentiate her from everyone who shares the same blood status, as he loved her but wanted everyone else to die. Once Lily turned her back on him, he couldn’t take no for an answer and treated her terribly as though she wasn’t right to stop talking to someone who was referring to her with a racial slur.
Not only was there issues with Lily during his school time, but also with the marauders- Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter (especially the latter two). There is no justification for the way they treated him, they were bullying him, but he also gave them just as much as he received up until the Whomping Willow Incident. He badly treated the four of them even though the majority of the retaliation came from Potter and Black whom were also the two he was more likely to target with his hatred.
Sirius irrational actions with the Whomping Willow Incident was a completely terrible thing and Snape’s dislike for Sirius was completely justified by this but Peter and Remus had no actions in this plan along with James having saved Snape from it. After having his life saved by James he was still bitter towards him and never became civil, even if the only reason James did help him was to not have Remus’ conscience have death on it. However, this incident only occurred as Snape was trying to find out Remus’ secret and did everything in his power to out Remus as a werewolf even though Remus didn’t get involved too much and was relatively civil with Snape throughout school. It is never explained clearly as to why he set his sights on Remus to ruin his life but this continues into adult life.
Once both Remus and Snape are professors at Hogwarts, Remus is willing to be civil towards him as they are now professional adults, however Snape doesn’t have the same mindset. He does everything he can to make jokes towards him and talk badly to his students whilst Remus does nothing to retaliate. As this doesn’t do anything, he takes this one step further. Whilst Remus is unable to teach whilst he is recovering from the full moon, he forces the students to abandon the syllabus to write an essay on identifying werewolves and how to kill them, in the hopes that someone will notice Remus- Hermione does but luckily, she is a decent human being. This therefore means that when Remus returns he has to read a class of essays about how to kill people like him, including one written by the child who is the last link to everyone he loves. Supposedly this is also not enough so finally outs him as a werewolf to the world, causing outrage that a werewolf was teaching children even though Remus wasn’t doing anything to hurt students (unlike someone) and as he was forced to lose his job, he then lost all stability and was likely homeless once more. As well as these effects on Remus it also means that all werewolf within Britain can now no longer get jobs which then becomes a law within the wizarding world.
Not only does he have a personal vendetta against Remus Lupin, whom did have a slight rift with him in school, he also had a similar one against Neville Longbottom, an innocent and impressionable child. Through the prophecy, Neville had an equal chance of being the chosen one, but due to the fact that he wasn’t (and having his parents tortured into insanity and having been kind of abused as a child wasn’t enough of a punishment) Snape decided to treat him by far lower than other students. He treated him so terribly that he became Neville’s boggart as the thing that scares Neville the most, even though Neville has memories of his parents being tortured with the cruciatus curse into insanity, which proves how terrifying Snape must have been to him. This isn’t the only severe example of how terribly he treated Neville, but as Snape considered him a lower standard of student (and didn’t consider actually helping him to try and make him better) he threatened to feed Neville’s toad Trevor a potion Neville made, as if it wasn’t done correctly the toad would be killed.
Neville isn’t the only student that Snape treated badly. He harassed Hermione on multiple occasions for actually taking an active role within the class, along with insulting her teeth to an extent that she began to cry. Although these are two students with multiple occurrences of Snape treating them wrong (not including Harry), he abused his role as a professor as a whole. He showed bias to Slytherin students, whereas teachers such as McGonagall wouldn’t hesitate to dock marks from students within her own house. Meanwhile Snape has been seen to grant marks to Slytherin students for behaviours that he has also docked marks to other houses- such as answering correctly in class without raising their hands. He abuses his role as head of house but also harasses students and bullies them even though his job is to inspire and help them grow. Along with this he abuses his role as headmaster, turning a blind eye to how the Carrows treat students (including literal torture). Granted whilst he is headmaster he is attempting to be a double agent, but as a double agent he should have made sure the students were okay as the main aim of the Order was stopping collateral damage especially that of innocent children.
Most of the aforementioned elements of how he treated students applies to Harry but one of the most serious actions he uses against Harry that he doesn’t with other students is the use of a ministry controlled potion against him. Harry as a student is supposed to be under Snape’s care however he uses veritaserum on Harry without his consent or actually being allowed to by the ministry. This potion allowed Snape to manipulate Harry into telling him the truth even though Harry had given him no reason to doubt him other than Snape’s pre-existing prejudice against him.
His students aren’t the only people he shows little to no care for. His childhood peers and colleagues as a professor get an equal indignation. An example of his little care of colleagues comes in the form of Charity Burbage. Charity was the muggle studies professor whom Lord Voldemort murdered at a death eater meeting. It can be assumed that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy may have known her through he possibly teaching their son, and are seen as physically shocked by the vile and brutal murder that is before them. Meanwhile Snape, whom can be assumed to have been friends or at least civil acquaintances with Charity is clearly not taken back by this action. This isn’t through the fear of Voldemort’s reaction as everyone else clearly show how they feel, whereas Snape doesn’t bat an eye at seeing his colleague being killed in front of him.
Although Snape had never been on good terms with James Potter, it is bloody hard to get to the point of despising someone so much that you’d willingly step over their corpse to go find to corpse of their wife. When arriving at the Potter residence in Godric’s Hollow, Snape immediately ignores that James has been killed, stepping over his lifeless corpse and going straight to Lily. Lily is also dead lying on the floor by the crib of her distraught son who is sobbing for his parents. Snape ignores the crying child and holds the corpse of Lily, giving a clear example as to how he values his happiness of Lily’s. If he did truly love Lily, he would have mourned for her but most importantly he would have comforted her child.
This is also shown prior to this point when he asks Voldemort to save Lily which may be on its own a nice deed, however the fact that he doesn’t care for the safety of James or Harry it makes his motives questionable. If his love for Lily was pure he would be happy for her to be happy and would realise that he wouldn’t be saving Lily if her husband and son were killed. Instead he was infatuated with the idea with her and didn’t care about what she wanted, only the fact that he wanted her.
All in all, Snape wasn’t the only good Slytherin. If you want a good Slytherin please refer to Andromeda Tonks, Regulus Black, Narcissa Malfoy, Astoria Greengrass and Horace Slughorn- I do apologise if I have forgotten anyone else as I am sure there are other lovely Slytherin’s.
A mudança de ares fez com que algo dentro de James mudasse também. Uma versão mais amena e centrada de si. Antigamente também não tinha maturidade alguma e o corte abrupto de contato com os pais nessas últimas semanas também o afetaram. Saudade era um sentimento ruim a ser sentido e jamais imaginou que fosse tão grandioso assim até ficar longe de casa à força, mesmo que em período escolar. No caso, era temeroso por não saber o que havia acontecido com eles. Será que estavam bem também? Será que estavam lidando com a mesma situação temporal? Sem cartas para fora, era impossível saber. Então, o que restava para James era aguardar e dar mais ouvidos àqueles que gostava - sim, Lily Evans, em específico. Por um acaso, ela era um tópico muito sensível entre ele e um certo aluno da sonserina, cujo qual estava caminhando para achar agora. Na realidade, não havia qualquer tópico debatido entre eles por anos, desde sempre, e talvez fosse aquele o momento necessário para lidar com o assunto. Quer como fosse, James não sentia mais o ciúmes exacerbado de antes. Era uma criança quando tudo começou e aquele desagrado de outrora certamente era algo que Lily e Severus deveriam resolver entre eles, não era nada do bico do Potter - por mais que desgostasse da ideia. Apesar de nunca ter verbalizado ou compreendido dentro de si, ele sabia que o importuno que causou na vida do outro era por um singelo sentimento jamais sentido antes. Snape tinha o que ele não havia conseguido até então, que era a proximidade com a ruiva. Portanto, parecia justo que uma criança como ele, mimado e egocêntrico, tivesse o pensamento de querer para si algo que era dos outros. Talvez não com dinheiro, mas com atenção. Se retirasse o outro da vista, era possível que Lily o enxergasse também... Mas isso, obviamente, não aconteceu tão rápido ou da maneira que queria. E agora mais velho ele entendia. Era tão palpável quanto a realidade paralela de um outro castelo à frente e do filho que nunca soube que existiria. Se permitiu respirar fundo algumas várias vezes antes de se aproximar de Severus, apenas a alguns passos deste quando finalmente proferiu em um tom não muito acolhedor, mas também não tão arisco: "Tudo bem?" Não sabia nem mesmo o que fala com ele, já que nunca tiveram qualquer contato e, bom... James tinha sido a raiz do bullying dele.
absolutely! jack mulhern, anthony turpel, archie renaux, gavin leatherwood, björn mosten, nick robinson, anthony keyvan, fionn whitehead, aytaç şaşmaz, deaken bluman, manu ríos, ross lynch, avan jogia, & austin abrams would all work wonderfully for severus.
Thanks so much for the response in Sev, you really calmed my nerves! Do you have any good Severus face claim ideas? I am open to most anything, but was sort of thinking about making him trans. Do you have any ideas for both trans and cis fcs?
of course! I’m glad I was able to help your nerves. as for faceclaims, I think that chella man, jaimie wilson, emmett preciado, lukas von horbatschewsky, noah adams, sohan pague, & elliot fletcher would all work for playing severus as a trans man. laith ashley could also work; he’s currently 32 but has resources from when he was younger. conversely, olly alexander & theo germaine are a great nonbinary options for severus! and jack mulhern, giancarlo commare, deaken bluman, avan jogia, felix mallard, jorge lópez, mena massoud, & park jinyoung are some cis faceclaims that could work for severus.
Severus better start watching his back, I heard a nasty rumour that Rosier once gorged someone's eye out with a toothpick in the mens locker rooms for simply just looking at Iris.
❝ so can i put you down as a bet for Rosier for the cage match ? but seriously , like did he actually use a toothpick ? is he like rambo or something ? ❞
Roll up, roll up. Taking bets on who will take the other out first. Bonus points for how bloody it will get. Evan Rosier and Severus Snape fighting to the death over Iris Parkinson. The Slytherins are all just a bunch of wild animals. Someone needs to lock them up in a cage.
❝ coming live from the cage match between Severus Snape &. Evan Rosier. whats the grand prize you ask? why my lovelies its the lovely affection of Iris Parkinson. Place your bets now. ❞
