Potions Ledger

a place to share the love for Severus Snape Call me Sweden because I am neutral.

[legionsuniverseodoodles]

The Potions Master

[lilithofpenandbook]

The scene where Snape protects the kids from Werewolf Lupin is so fucking funny to me

He goes from "IM GONNA MURDER YOU" to "What's going on" to "oh SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!"

The amount of emotions that he goes through in those five seconds is priceless

He literally fucking pauses for a whole second going 'what the fuck..?' and then his brain catches up to his eyes and he goes "WHAT THE FUCK?!!"

[fanfic-lover-girl]

HP epilogue's socio-politics in a nutshell

The Weasleys are the new Blacks.

[iamnmbr3]

And they're ginger. So does that mean...that orange is...that orange is the new *gets kicked off tumblr for abuse of puns*

[trippingontheescalator]

I think one of the reasons why Severus is so hard on Harry because he knows EXACTLY what kind of stupid shit is going through his teenage brain, and not because of legilimency, but because Severus was also a big dummy when it came to personal safety at that age.

Harry: incredibly nosey, cannot mind his own business, likes to solve mysteries that may or may not cause direct bodily harm.

Who else does that sound like?

If Teenage Snape – the boy who came up with a theory that Lupin was a werewolf and then went to the Shrieking Shack because Sirius Black of all people told him to – were to meet Harry, Sev would immediately be like “Oh, you’re hunting a basilisk? Count me in. We can try out this new spell I just invented.”

[sleepyanger]

[timeladyjamie]

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[petrerpkr]

Snily as hades and persephone

[babblingflowers]

Saw someone be like "at least barty didn't bully kids when he was a teacher" but like, babe he literally did.

First of all, traumatizing the shit out of Neville (and the whole class honestly) with his demonstration of a curse that he literally used to torture Neville's parents (that's some deranged shit)

And then there was the whole turning Draco into am animal and flinging him around (I guess assault doesn't count if it's towards unlikable people)

Not to mention putting Harry's name in the goblet (which, idk, definitely feels like bullying)

"Barty didn't bully kids" he literally led a kid to their death what are you talking about?

But some respect on that murderous psycho's name

[said-snape-softly]

Totally agreed with your tags here @carried-away-with-cleverness, BCJ is a ruthless and terrifying antagonist, and I’ll never understand people who want to take that away from him.

Also, to add onto OP’s examples here, attacking a student like Malfoy wasn’t just a one-off thing. BCJ attacked Krum in the Forbidden Forest, stunning him and leaving him with a dazed and hurting head when he was awoken. Crouch also stunned Fleur in the Maze as she passed him, and then escalated to using the Imperius curse on Krum with the intent to have Krum “finish” Cedric, whatever that meant. Like, man made a habit out of attacking students.

[sideprince]

BCJ literally a murdered a man in the Hogwarts grounds (his dad). He's not a bully, he's a full-on murderous, fanatical psychopath. Mad respect for his cunning and skills, but "bully" is a tame word for what he was.

I also think this is a good time to point out that just because antis think Snape is the worst and call him a bully doesn't mean that being a bully is the worst thing? Or even that Snape is the biggest one in the series. Unless you're contextualizing that with, "Snape was a bully to some of the students but also BCJ was a full-on psychopath who traumatized several of them."

[pet-genius]

BCJ is the best written baddie outside of Voldemort himself and the fact that he managed to manipulate Harry and others only makes him more compelling and evil, not less. Guys he was "nice" because he was trying to manipulate the kids so that Harry would die. If anything, he's the proof that Snape really really couldn't afford to be nice and had to be a cunt, which is an argument I hate because it whitewashes Snape too much.

[invisibleicewands]

Archive papers reveal Alan Rickman's frustration at Snape role

The actor, who died in 2016 aged 69 from pancreatic cancer, reveals his misgivings in his archive of personal papers covering more than 40 years on stage and screen.

[deathdaydungeon]

I hate quoting the Daily Mail, but HBP is the most frustrating film of the franchise; it’s rather pleasing to see Rickman acknowledge this:

RADA-trained Rickman, who rose to fame with the Royal Shakespeare Company, was still having doubts about the character while working on 2009’s Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film. On the set, he queried the character’s ‘narrative and character development’ by writing down his thoughts under the heading Inside Snape’s Head.  He wrote: 

‘It’s as if David Yates has decided that this is not important in the scheme of things i.e. teen audience appeal.’

[raptured-night]

@idealistic-realism00

[sideprince]

I know you just reblogged this from me @st-severus and I should have added this before but I didn’t think of it until now…

This is the same film where Alan Rickman worked in this moment:

The man was trying so hard to tell a whole story by himself that Kloves left out of the script and Yates didn’t care about, and he did so every. single. second. he was on screen. I have so much respect for his commitment to the role and integrity.

[smilingformoney]

If I could talk to one person in all of human history about anything, I’d talk to Alan about Snape

[elysiamus]

𝚂𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝙷𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚏, 𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚍. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

[rewritingcanon]

hot take (maybe?) but sirius was walburga’s fav child because he was the most like her at his worst

[forestdeath1]

For me, it's canon, but not just because he resembled her, but because in her narcissistic opinion Sirius was the best of the Blacks, flesh of their flesh, born of two Blacks, handsome, intelligent, strong-willed, the true future head of the family. Sirius is the brightest star in the Black family's sky. The one who could show the world what it means to be a Black.

There's no reason to believe he was hated in his childhood for who he was. There are many reasons to believe he was adored. His arrogance was also nurtured by being told from childhood that he was special, that he was the best, that there were none equal to him.

Blacks were likely often rebellious, especially in their youth, for various reasons. So, after Sirius was sorted into Gryffindor, they didn't disown him (it didn’t matter that he was a child. The Blacks disowned/obliterated squibs from their lineage at the age of 11, like Marius Black). But they thought Sirius would eventually get his rebellion out of his system and settle down. That's when Walburga and Orion started trying to change him, to bring him back to the family, because they knew they were losing him. That's when the psychological abuse began. That's when the comparisons with Regulus started. Regulus was always second after Sirius, but he was close, always close, a dutiful son to his mother and father. A good son. Good, but not Sirius.

But the more they pressured Sirius, the more resistance he would show. Walburga knew pressure had worked with Alphard, her brother, and she thought it would work with Sirius. But it didn't.

Sirius "broke her heart." Walburga lost her son, whom she adored and loved, who could have been her pride, the perfect heir. Regulus remained, but ultimately she lost him too, and she spent her last years hoping to see her son at her doorstep, hoping he would return.

By the way, I think Sirius was not formally disowned. Walburga "burned" him from the tapestry at 12 Grimmauld Place after his escape, but Sirius remained a Black officially, he remained the heir. They still hoped, until the end, that he would come to his senses and return. (Or he was reinstated after Regulus's death).

[dastardly-lemondrops]

Tbh I love that Snape is almost always either unusually soft spoken or screaming in the books. Most voice headcanons for him seem to come from the movies but I'm here for Snape who is diminutive except for when he's losing his fucking marbles.

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

What Dumbeldore fans don't seem to grasp is that doing his morally questionable and often evil ass actions isn't what truly annoys everyone. It's the need to control people, keep all pertinent information to himself alone which puts everyone else at risk, and then act like he's some kind of saint who has the best interests of the world in mind.

The times Dumbledore admits his imperfections is only when someone tells him they think he's got some omnipotent power at that moment in time. He has to be like, 'well, this is only my personal guess,' and even then, people treat it like canon confirmation. Other than that, he's a hypocrite who did a lot of very bad things that cannot be morally justified even for the sake of the Greater Good. So much suffering could have been avoided had he just been up front about his intentions and plans with the people who he was literally using as pawns in those plans.

We can handle morally grey characters, otherwise Snape wouldn't have so many fans. What we don't like is Dumbledore's personality and how his fans will do everything they can brush aside the severity of his actions and inaction.

[severussnapemylove]

Being a Snape fan in the Harry Potter fandom be like

[ghosts-r-real-i-swear]

Newer fans of Harry Potter who hate snape are like

“He’s blood supremacist and racist AND sexist and just a bully and a terrible person”

And then be like

“Stan James” “I love Regulus and he’s the best most helpful character.

We never actually see James grow from being a bully, we just see that snape lost contact with him in adulthood.

We know absolutely nothing about Regulus except he’s Sirius’s brother, he betrayed Voldemort AND HE ACTUALLY MADE IT HARDER FOR HARRY TO FIND THE HORCRUX

Also the fact that Snape’s backstory is often given to regulus for depth.

Snape had the illusion of choice. Snape haters aren’t ready to face the fact that Regulus could have gone to Sirius for help if he didn’t want to join the Death Eaters. Sirius BEGGED Regulus to join him. Lily’s family would not have taken Snape long term.

[severus-snape-apreciation-blog]

Snapes options were the light side who tormented him for years and let his almost be killers get away with it and forced him into silence.

Or the dark who told him he was wanted and valued. He was a child who was manipulated. A abused child with no one else

[souryam]

happy birthday to severus snape also known as the main character

[ronavorona]