i headcanon severus snape has been obsessed with tim curry ever since snape saw him sing and stomp around in glittery platform heels and sparkly lingerie as dr frank n furter in rocky horror picture show in 1975
snape goes to see legend in 1985 and hates it bc tim curry is the best character and is hardly even in it. still watches it 3000 more times bc tim curry
heyyyy 💖 thanks for the asks 💋 love ya!
not me rambling about every snape thought i’ve ever had again 😎
15. If he’d lived, how do you think he would have gone on with his life?
I think he’d just,, vanish from Hogwarts and the main wizarding world, no matter any awards he gets or not. You’d find him somewhere near a rocky cliff overlooking a stormy sea. Behind the tree-line on the rocks above is his cottage, where strangely colored smoke always plumes out of the stone chimney and the trees whisper such peculiar things to you. The oddly colored mushrooms and toadstools look identical, but Severus, expert potioneer, knows the difference. He spends his time creating and inventing, for no one in particular. Maybe he’ll feel empty, not creating for someone else. After all, he lived almost his entire life in the servitude of other people.
Maybe after feeling lonely, he’ll come out with a book later, publishing a revolutionary book in the field that will be well sought after. Maybe he’d finally get the power he’s always wanted, by pursuing his passions. Maybe people would finally come to admire him and appreciate him :) 💖 and this time, he didn’t even have to change a single thing about himself to accomplish that! 💖
23. How is Snape with animals?
(if u disregard the,,, j.k. terfling harming animals in the wizarding world and treating it as a common occurrence *cough cough* transfiguration class *cough cough*) then I feel like Severus is great with animals. He is deeply protective of those animals that are considered “creepy” or “ugly” or “weird.” He knows what it feels like to be vilified and labeled so harshly when all you did was simply exist. He thinks rats are cute, sharks are misunderstood, and toads are fun. He would never harm a garden snake and he’s the type of person to put spiders outside instead of killing them. He loves cats and rabbits but would never have them both at the same time. He has conversations with the crows outside as he feeds them breadcrumbs. He’s always wished that someday, someone would show him the love and kindness he’s always shown animals.
*bonus* As per my Snape animagus headcanon... I hc his animagus form to be a black netherland dwarf rabbit (I have some snape bunny drawings if you check my archive). Bunnies LOVE him. They instantly know and trust him. He takes in any sick or injured rabbit that can’t get better on its own and he nurses them back to health. Then when he goes to release them after they’re all better, they don’t want to be released. They just hop back into his arms. He’s currently the proud papa of 7 rabbits now, and they all have names and they all love to cuddle him but on their own terms. 💖
ooooo!! i’m excited for this one (i think about it A LOT) ... buckle up this will be another longwinded answer with WAY MORE than you asked for lol. i added a TLDR at the end, and a cut because i just,,, i had to go off and tell you my headcanons about their life. i still have more if you want 👀
💚💚💚 thank you for the ask lovely! i didn’t realize how far my headcanons went until i started writing and had more like 5K characters omg
I think Severus really looked up to his mother. He wanted to be just like her, a Prince, a Slytherin. He wanted to excel in potions and dark arts, but at the same time, he was himself. He was a healer first and foremost and had a great big caring heart. Maybe he got it from his mother? Who knows. Maybe he got it from Tobias? It was rather heartbreaking for him to grow up and realize how little Eileen had regarded him throughout the years. Years went by and no holiday letters as he watched his other housemates get showered with gifts and letters. I don’t think it was really Eileen’s fault though. I headcanon her to have been a spoiled pureblood who rebelled against the rich and quiet lifestyle.
Maybe her night of rebellion was going to a muggle city and finding Tobias. After a whirlwind of new experiences and cultures, she fell madly in love with him and him, her. She didn’t want to be a snooty pureblood witch that had to sit and look pretty and Tobias liked that. They got together and had Severus shortly after. The two of them tried their best but Tobias had no money and Eileen had been disowned. The three of them lived in poverty and Eileen had postpartum depression. Eileen’s depression only worsened and she continued to neglect Severus until it was second nature. Tobias had to take care of Severus alone and began to resent Eileen. He knew nothing about kids, especially magic kids. But Severus, too young to show any magic ability, Tobias basically regarded him as any other normal kid. Tobias really liked Severus.
It wasn’t until they all got a bit older, that Severus began to show magic abilities that Tobias began to remember who he married and what his son really was. Then Eileen saw herself in Severus. She finally began to learn more about her son and showed him all her old potion and dark arts books. Young Sev really enjoyed the attention and the new knowledge, and really began to look up to his mother and tried to be more like her. Tobias began to resent it. He was the primary caregiver and now Eileen shows up and turns his kid into some magic freak? He was sick of it. Although it hurt then and it still hurt now, he got used to Eileen ignoring him and thinking of him as less than. Now his own boy, Severus, was doing so, too? Anyway it was the 60s and there were no good coping mechanisms that Tobias knew of, so he would be bitter and rude and drink a lot. It got to the point that Eileen began to feel rather afraid. She didn’t have anywhere else to take Severus and go, or any desire to go anywhere.
She still loved Tobias and Severus, but she was paralyzed with fear and then it ate at her and she felt hopeless and fell into depression again, which only got worse when Severus left for Hogwarts.
Their marriage only continued to get worse. Sometimes Tobias wouldn’t come home until late at night, drunk and screaming, or stumbling home the next day, hickeys on his neck and new scratches on his back. Severus resented him for that. But Eileen never wanted to leave him, and Severus felt confused about that.
Despite the infidelity, one-sided arguing, and substance abuse... Eileen and Tobias still had their moments of passion. Followed by resentment. And then passion again. Severus didn’t really know what to think about the neverending cycle of his parents being okay and then not being okay. When things were okay, Tobias was... odd. He was lighthearted, he would whistle, he was home on time. He would ruffle Severus’ hair and give him something that he found that reminded him of Sev- like a weird looking plant growing in the cracks of the cobblestone at spinner’s end.
“Maybe you could find some use for it?” Tobias would drawl, softly punching Sev’s shoulder. Severus would still hold his own arm anyway. The reflexive action reminded him of the pain that those punches would inflict at other times.
Severus would never know what to think of it. He didn’t want to get used to it, because he knew soon enough he’d have to hide in his room again while the sound of slurring words would echo across downstairs and his mother would lock herself in her room again. But it’s those rare good times and the warm times from before, when he’d gladly wear his father’s shirt as a nightshirt and wait for him to come home from the factory. As the front door opened, young Severus would be picked up and swung around, as cheerful giggles echoed throughout the living room. After the giggles died down, his father would carry him up the creaky stairs of their home at Spinner’s End, before tucking Severus into bed and ruffling his hair, leaving the door open just a crack as his father would exit the room and give his mother a kiss on the cheek.
It’s those same nights that Severus would think about when night falls on Spinner’s End and he is reading a book in front of the fire that his parents had left for him.
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TLDR: I think Severus had a complicated relationship with both of his parents. First he preferred Tobias, then he preferred Eileen in his later years. Now that they are both gone, who knows? He’s feeling very conflicted over all of it.
