I've noticed something about Snape—one of his biggest red lines, the thing that truly pushes him to his limit, is when someone's life is in danger.
In those moments, he becomes the most vulnerable version of himself. He forgets everything, every grudge, every precaution, every defense mechanism and his only focus is getting people out of harm's way, no matter the cost.
So vulnerable that hearing about Ginny Weasley's kidnapping forces him to lean on the back of a chair.
So vulnerable and unguarded that while saving Harry from Quirrell’s curse, an eleven-year-old sets him on fire.
So vulnerable that, in his attempt to manage the chaos of the Shrieking Shack—with children, a werewolf, and a supposed murderer—he’s disarmed by 13-year-olds.
He's so reckless that he makes an Unbreakable Vow for Draco.
So reckless that he chases a werewolf, without Wolfsbane, under the full moon near sunset.
So reckless that he ventures into the Forbidden Forest to find lost children.
So reckless that he roams the hallways in the middle of the night, in his nightgown, chasing the sound of a scream.
So reckless that, as a Death Eater, he risks everything to warn the leader of the opposite side about Voldemort's plans to kill the Potters—and is willing to give anything to save them.
He's so ungrudging that he carefully carries an unconscious Sirius Black.
So ungrudging that when Black is captured, he checks on him immediately and alerts the Order of the Phoenix.
So ungrudging that he risks his cover to save Lupin.
And I think these moments say so much about his humanity, things the books never fully explain.
⚠️ Dislikes: rain (the getting wet part), cold weather, math, cigarette smoke, men who are jackasses to me or any of my girlies, dogs, wasps (why do they have to exist?), certain fanfiction, people who act like jerks and then turn around and play the victim when they’re finally accused of their awful behavior..
🚫 Things I absolutely despise: ATYD (all the young dudes - hp fic), anti-feminists (asshole men & idiot women who think they can't live without a man), people who hate J.K. Rowling, proshippers, Severus Snape haters (Snaters), Tiktok, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Pete Hegeseth, RFK Jr, a lot of people in the Trump Administration right now.
💖 Things/people that I adore: Santa Fe salad, my cats, Apollo and Dusk, Blaire White, Amir Odom, Buck Angel 🌻💝
‼️ Current obsessions: Charlie Kirk's debates, Blaire White's podcast, rabbit hole conspiracy theories.
🚫 DNI LIST ‼️:
Misogynists
People who think males can be lesbians. "Lesboy" no get the fuck out. The door is this way ➡🚪
Anti-Ukrainian (go Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛)
Radqueers
"Plural" people with "systems." This is called having a mental illness, and you should probably be looked at by a medical professional.
Proshippers (as in the people who write incest or pedophilia fics on their blogs because I have seen some)
Marauders stans (If you're a normal Marauders era person, you're fine. I just don’t need any delulu tiktok fans in here.)
Snaters
Any form of paraphilia (pedophilia, agraphilia, necrophilia, etc.)
People who identify as 100+ different things because that's just weird and unnecessary
Yes, I will know because I look at profiles when people follow or reblog.
EXTRA (things I am):
A gender critical feminist, and no I don't care if you hate me for it 🙏
An unconventional Catholic ✝️
A person who loves canon works. No, I'm not reading a 500k word fanfic that's an AU while everyone on Tiktok is passing it off as the law. I'll read it to criticize it and that's it.
A non-delulu democrat in a deeply red state (leaning more conservative now tbh)
A multishipper (I learned this from my high school years of watching anime.)
A heart surgery patient. I had surgery when I was ten to repair seven holes in my ventricle septum. (Shoutout to the Vanderbilt doctors of Nashville, TN!)
FANDOM INFO (interests and just stuff to do with fandoms/books and television):
Favourite genres: mystery, psychological thriller, low fantasy
Favourite books: The Giver, The Hobbit, Red, White & Royal Blue, Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, Wings of Starlight
Favourite songs (in no particular order):
Rather Be - Clean Bandit (The George Twins cover)
Stick Season - Noah Kahan
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
How Far We've Come - Matchbox 20
Dynasty - Miia
Windows in Heaven - We Are The In Crowd
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
Boss Bitch - Doja Cat
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Two Orugitas - Sebastían Yatra
Favourite animes: Attack on Titan, Sk∞ the Infinity, Banana Fish, No.6, Yuri!!! on Ice, Terror in Resonance, Seraph of the End, My Hero Academia, Your Name
Favourite mangas: Assassination Classroom, Attack on Titan, Apocalypse no Toride (seriously, this is such a good manga and deserves an anime, the issue is that the author stopped updating/the manga got axed 😭)
Favourite characters: Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Bill Weasley, Bilbo Baggins, Ravi Singh, Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor (lol), Jean Kirstein, Tamaki Amajiki, Cloudykit, Whiteout, Turtle, Queen Snowfall (a lot of Wings of Fire characters)
Favourite Disney movies: Raya and The Last Dragon, Brave, Moana (the first one, not whatever wretched thing the second one was), Tuck Everlasting, The Lone Ranger, Bolt, Encanto, Lilo & Stitch (no, not the live action garbage)
Favourite Dreamworks movies: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, every HTTYD movie (again, not the live action garbage), El Dorado, every Shrek movie (except this newest one, probably), Shark Tale, Kung Fu Panda, Over The Hedge, The Croods, there's so many Dreamworks movies that I love.
Overall favourite movie: Coraline (I could literally watch it on repeat forever), I also love Racing Stripes.
Favourite ships: Eruri, Milarion {Queen Clarion × Lord Milori}, Drarry, Snily, Harry × Luna, Draco × Pansy (ik I also ship drarry but dransy is so cute), AshEiji, Victuri, Nezushi, Jeankasa, Izuocha, and many more.
Snape spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word.
“I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses… I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death...”
Just a fun little drawing based on the rumours. I hadn't seen Paapa Essiedu in many things so I watched his episode of Black Mirror the other day, and I just kept thinking about Gaap's nails.
snaters are like “snape is a murderer!! he LITERALLY knew so many curses by the seventh grade!! he is witteraly The Devil Himself!”
guess what…… snape is an angel, actually! snape is just a little ‘tistic guy whose specinterest were the dark arts. but y’all say you’re not ableist, smh 🙄
Alone, in the dark, and surrounded by the howling blizzard, Severus felt more at peace than he had in weeks. The more he let himself be buffeted by the snow, the more the crease between his brows seemed to melt away. He walked for some time, enjoying the crunch of the snow beneath his feet and the twinkle of the stars above. After a while, when it began to grow too dark to see, Severus raised his wand to cast Lumos… but halted himself in the act, hesitating. Steadily, he lowered his arm again and changed his mind — preferring, as wanderers often do, not to know where he was going in the dead of night.
I drew this for @snapecelebration’s Snolidays, Day 1. Prompt: Blizzard.
ID: image of Severus Snape, holding his wand high above his head. His expression is calm. His cloak, black like his clothes, is billowing in the wind. There is snow all around him. /End ID.
James opposed Dark Magic soooo much, that he used an ILLEGAL hex on a student causing their head to swell twice the size. The only thing that makes a spell ILLEGAL is its dark nature.
And using a spell to flip someone, enabling him to strip them naked.
And using a cleaning charm to choke someone.
Don't forget the Marauders Map - a creepy, stalkerish object - and an Invisibility Cloak from Death itself.
So, get the fuck outta here with that 'I hate dark magic' shit.
