I noticed that you refer to James as a rapist a couple of times. Do you think SWM actually escalated to that?

“Who wants to see me take off Snivelly’s pants?” – James Potter

In that time and era, the usage of the word “pants” was not Americanised in the UK and would have been specifically a reference to Snape’s underwear.

Snape was hanging, petrified, sans wand and had already been sexually humiliated by comments about his underwear at that point. It didn’t have to escalate. It was already sexual assault before his underwear was removed.

So, yes. I think I am perfectly justified in calling James Potter a rapist. If someone did that to me I’d happily call them castrated or dead and not lose a wink of sleep over it.

How can you hate James for bullying Snape but love Snape? He bullies children daily?

unpopular-ship-queen:

oh lord, here we go.

first of all, i have never in my life defended severus’ actions towards his students. what he said was absolutely unacceptable, and by all accounts he should have been punished for it.

however, i daresay that cruel comments are on a completely fuckin different level than, you know, stripping someone in front of half the school?

potter had absolutely no reason to treat severus the way he did. he said it himself- it’s “because he exists”.

i would go as far to say that potter is, in part, responsible for severus’ adult personality. now again, this is by no means me defending severus. explainations are not excuses.

that said! having been bullied myself, and having known many people who were also bullied, i can say from personal experience that such experiences change someone.

severus came from an unhealthy home to begin with. he was never taught how to properly handle anger and negative emotions. potter, on the other hand, was said to be raised by loving, wonderful parents. see where i’m going with this?

now then, severus came to hogwarts. he thought he would be safe there, and he was thrilled to finally be amongst people like himself. instead of being accepted, however, he found himself the target (or one of many) of “”””pranks”””” (as your fandom likes to call them) that could be argued as sexual assault and attempted murder. so i think it’s pretty fuckin fair to see why severus became the bitter person he was as an adult.

oh, and speaking of adult!severus…what of adult actions?

as an adult, severus spent half his life protecting the wizarding world. he himself would admit that he grew to genuinely care for other people. while he was cruel to his students, he did not permanently scar them, and without him riddle may not have been defeated.

it’s harder to compare potter as an adult since he’s, you know, dead, but what we DO know is that he continued hexing severus behind lily’s back, and that the only evidence for his so-called maturity comes from black, who still acts like a fucking child. yes, potter died for his wife and son, and of course he gets points for that, but i would personally expect that sort of behaviour from any father.

oh- and as a side note? potter’s actions towards severus aren’t the only reason i hate him. if you recall, he treated lily as a prize to be won, used her best friend as leverage to get a date when she refused to go out with him, and if i recall, he threatened to hex her when she stood up for severus. potter was just a shitty fucking person.

now get out of my inbox and have a nice fucking day.

Too Young to know better?

slytherblogging:

If James Potter at 15 was half the bullying, cruel and selfish person an emotionally-trapped-at-21-year-old-Sirius-Black could call an idiot then he deserved a lot worse than than a killing curse and any girl who looked at him twice should count herself lucky that she was only called a slur once in her life.

People seem confused by this so I’m going to reblog it and ask them; did I fucking stutter?

It’s not difficult to grasp;

Lily deserved a lot worse than being called one nasty name once even if it was a slur.

James deserved a lot worse than a quick painless death.

Anyone else still not getting it?

Further clarification; by “anyone” I mean

A) anyone who has actually been called a slur and knows that it’s not the worst thing in the world when it’s a one off instead of just some jumped up thirteen year old SJW who thinks being “woke” is a thing

B) anyone who has been bullied and sexually assaulted at school as opposed to someone who thinks those things can or should be forgiven because the perpetrator was a teenager.

C) both

Sometimes I can’t help myself

the-great-snape-debate:

Can a Snape Hater honestly answer me one thing.

What was Snape supposed to do, other than walk around James’ dead body? Simple question really, since you all make that your main argument to hating him … What should he have done?

Given James’ corpse a good kick and spat at the fucker whilst declaring “good riddance”… ? No?

Taken a quick piss on the corpse? Not that either?

Oh wait, or was he expected to kneel down, cry softly and close his rapists eyes tenderly whilst murmuring forgiving platitudes and last rites for someone who bullied him for nearly a decade? You must be joking!

James is damn lucky all Snape did was walk past him. I don’t think I could be that good a person if presented with the fresh corpse of someone who tormented me for years.

Snape was probably tortured…

mysnarkyslytherinsecret:

halfbloodponce:

Friendly reminder that Snape probably got tortured while being interrogated at the end of GoF, in order to re-establish his position as a spy. In the graveyard, Voldemort says “One, too cowardly to return … he will pay. One, who I believe has left me forever … he will be killed, of course … and one, who remains my most faithful servant, and one who has already re-entered my service.”. The first is Karkakoff, the last is Barty Crouch Jr, and the one who would be killed is…Snape.

Voldy knew that Snape had thwarted him on the Stone. He Crucio-d Avery simply for failing to search for him after his disappearance. In HBP Snape mentions Voldemort’s “Initial displeasure” (bit of an understatement). In GoF, Dumbledore says “Severus, you know what I must ask you to do. If you are ready … if you are prepared …” while looking worried, and Snape himself looked “paler than usual”. Do the math, do you think Voldy discussed his concerns over a cup of tea?

So Snape arrived to Voldemort two hours late, same Voldemort who tortures his followers for minor transgressions. Voldemort thought that Snape had betrayed him and was intending to kill him. Snape had years of bullshitting to answer to. He was also around 13 years out of practice doing hardcore Occlumency (he was a spy in the first war for months as well), so think about how fucked he thought he was. And prior to this, he had revealed his Dark Mark to a room full of people, in hopes of getting the MoM to quickly mobilize their forces against the DEs and warning the rest of the WW, even though Voldy wanted to keep low for as long as possible (don’t know if Voldy ever found out about this, but even if he didn’t, it was still a stunning move on Snape’s part considering how fucked he already was).

And despite all of this he willingly returned to spy against Voldemort, even though Lily was already dead, and despite it having no personal benefit and a shit ton of danger for him. Dumbledore gave him a choice in GoF timeline, asking him if he intended to flee if Voldemort returned (since Karkaroff would) and Snape replied “I am not such a coward”. If all of the above isn’t a testament to his bravery and his skills as an Occlumens, then I don’t know what is (aside from spying against a mind-reading psychopath in general, saving people while spying, agreeing to kill DD and making himself a pariah, protecting the school while still being a spy, and passing on the keys to killing Voldy to Harry as he died, ya those were also very brave).

Another stunning deconstruction for why I can never hate this character.

The definitive answer to “But he was Neville’s boggart”

lillymoid:

friends-of-severus-snape:

snapes-many-buttons:

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snapedefender:

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liminy-lemony:

snapedefender:

listen idk why people always bring up neville’s parents being tortured when they’re talking about the boggart scene (e.g. “neville is more terrified of SNAPE even though his PARENTS were TORTURED” you know). like…. y’all. let’s list out why that’s Not Relevent to the Discussion, shall we?

a) we don’t know how much thirteen-year-old neville knows about his parents or their torture. nobody ever brings up how often they visit, when augusta told neville about it, how much detail she went into, and so on. i can assume that he probably does know, but we don’t know how much detail.

b) this is like saying “harry is scared of DEMENTORS even though his PARENTS were BRUTALLY MURDERED” shockingly enough even though something bad happens to you or a person you love, it doesn’t automatically mean it’s going to be the thing you fear most. some of those kids have probably lost family members to the war. hell, remus lupin’s entire friend group either died or went to azkaban and he’s still more scared of his lycanthropy.

c) even if neville knows the details, that doesn’t mean he’s FRIGHTENED per se. nothing about him suggests that he sees (or has ever seen) bellatrix lestrange as a boogeyman. (possibly similar to the way harry isn’t ever really frightened of voldemort….?) esp at thirteen, he’s probably pretty removed from the actual thing that happened – he lives with the aftereffects, but the actual torture isn’t something that’s necessarily going to be clear or real to him.

d) snape is literally right there. right there! he’s in the room TWO SECONDS before remus asks neville what he’s frightened of. of course he’s the first thing that pops into neville’s head! (followed closely by his grandma who treats him pretty terribly too lmao)

d.5) what’s neville going to say instead? “well actually professor, i’m terrified of the woman who tortured my parents into insanity?”

e) i’ve said this before, but neville dispels the boggart in two tries. boggarts! do not show! your ultimate greatest fear! they show A fear. and the deeper the fear, the harder it is to banish. which is why harry can’t banish his boggart with anything less than the actual spell to get rid of dementors and molly weasley can’t banish her boggart on her own either. those are deep fears. neville’s (and all the other children in here) is a childish fear – that doesn’t make it less real, but it also doesn’t make it traumatic and soul-scarring.

i just… feel like this is another “gotcha!” argument that people try, but it doesn’t make sense to me. fears aren’t cut and dry and logical? just bc the boggart is snape doesn’t mean that snape is more deeply traumatizing than neville’s parents’ torture? the entire thing is meant to be read as a joke so when will the antis let me live and stop using this scene to “prove” that snape abuses children….?

F) neville: pls don’t turn into my nan either she’s scary af

G) Neville was a sensitive child and it totally makes sense to be afraid of someone like Snape when you are insecure.

H) Why is that we never talk about the fact that Neville doesnt want it to turn into his Grandmother? Cause I feel like that is a lot more telling than him being afraid of a scary teacher. Like there is a high chance had Snape not had just been there the Boggart could have also taken McGonagalls shape as well since she is equally as intimidating & scary to Neville as well.

I) You know that super widely accepted theory that Hermione’s boggart isn’t really her failing her third year exams, but a deeper fear of failure and/or a fear of not fitting into the wizarding world?

It’s 100% fanon, but it makes a lot of sense a) because that’s human psychology for you, and b) because the boggart has to represent the fear somehow, it has to “embody” it.

So now, let’s take a look at Neville. His family treated him pretty terribly to try to squeeze magic out of him when they thought he was a squib, right? I mean, they put him in danger of death to get his magic to manifest itself. So, in Neville’s experience, being useless at magic is about the worst you can be. Your own family would rather see you dead than see you turn out a squib. Being useless at magic means your uncle Algie dangles you upside down from a window (and drops you accidentally, but never mind that).

And then Neville goes to Hogwarts
and meets the harsh, abrasive teacher that is Professor Snape.

Professor Snape, who points out all his faults and shortcomings. Mind you, so does McGonagall, but while she can be strict, Snape is the one who’s nasty about it.

I think it’s more than plausible that, same as McGonagall telling her she failed represents Hermione’s fear of failing as a witch, Snape’s blunt criticisms represent for Neville a real threat of being rejected by his family and/or being put in threat of death. Again.

And so, the boggart takes on Snape’s form to represent Neville’s deeper fears, and not because Snape is actually so dreadful that he is the main fear-trigger to a boy whose parents were tortured into insanity
and who was threatened and outright abused by his own family for not being to produce magic early enough.

You have to admit – that’s a more plaubisble fear for Neville, especially since Snape has never actually done anything to him (I can’t say this loud enough) in the two years and a bit he’s been his teacher, whereas failing at magic has already had unpleasant consequences.

J) Ok, I know this is already long, but I think we also have to look at this scene from outside canon. We can ignore all this psycho-babble about fears and whatnot, and take a look at what JKR wanted to show her readers.

I think the main point of the boggart scene, apart from giving an early clue regarding Lupin’s lycanthropy, is to show how Harry is not like other kids.

Other kids have fears typical of kids. Sticking to canon, without interpreting anything, we’re shown a mummy, a banshee, a rat, a snake, a bloodshot eye (wtf), an amputated hand (again, wtf), a spider, a nasty teacher (Snape), and failing every subject. Honestly, these sound either like specific phobias that could happen to anyone given certain circumstances, or terrors from stories or films (actually, Hermione’s fear is the one that shows the most maturity).

But not Harry. Harry’s worst fears are the dementors. Fear itself, as Lupin says. And all this goes to show is that Harry isn’t like others. He has a tragic past. He has a shabby childhood. He has already had two near-death experiences while at school. Harry’s boggart shows that he’s been forced into a maturity that doesn’t correspond to his age, and that he’s been able to step up to the situation. He can no longer afford childish fears like teachers or grades, because there are very real threats both in his past and in his future.

This is a point that can’t be made if instead of Snape you show Neville’s uncle threatening to drop him from a window, or his parents dribbling down their chins in St. Mungo’s, or if instead of McGonagall you show Hermione’s friends and teachers spitting at her as she leaves Hogwarts in shame, with her wand snapped, or if instead of spiders you show Ginny’s lifeless body lying in the Chamber, or even if instead of the bloodshot eye you show say, Lavender’s uncle with bloodshot eyes, a bottle of vodka, and an erection. 

[reverting back to in-canon analysis, what the fuck was Lupin thinking? He shields Harry from the boggart, but what about all the other kids? What if the boggart had really become Lavender’s uncle with an erection in front of the whole class?]

So I think there’s definitely an element of downplaying other kids’ fears to show just how horrible Harry’s situation really is. Neville’s boggart, from a story telling point of view, is part of that, and not so much a point about Snape.

And honestly, all of Harry’s character growth in the first two books is basically lost if all you get from this scene is “asdflglkw the greasy git omg he tortured neville in class, RIP in Pieces greaseball”.

i love you so much honestly this is the greatest addition i’ve ever gotten on a neville’s boggart post

because!!! i’ve never actually considered that the boggart might show fear representations. which is sad, because the text literally tells us that it does (harry’s fear is “fear itself” not just dementors… lupin’s fear is not the moon but his lycanthropy which it represents). so it’s such an excellent point that neville’s fear isn’t snape himself, but what snape represents to him – failure and lack of magical talent, which snape is always mean to neville about. but! neville didn’t get that fear of failure and lack of magical talent from snape – he got it from his family (his uncle! throws him from a window! his grandma says over and over that he’s not as talented as his parents). which so easily explains! why snape and neville’s grandma are so linked together for him that his mind immediately jumps to augusta when talking about being afraid of snape. they both represent failure/lack of talent to him…. and the difference between them is that while snape may reinforce those fears, augusta (and the rest of neville’s family) is the one who gave him those fears.

(you could carry on to discuss how neville fears lack of talent potentially bc of his parents even – if they’re so proficient, as augusta always says, and they still end up tortured and mad…. or connect it to neville being afraid that his family won’t love him or care about him if he’s not proficient in magic e.g. “like his parents”…. which connects really nicely thematically back to how harry is always tied to the memory of his parents, but for harry it’s in a really positive way.)

anyway the point, as all of this extremely lovely analysis is saying, is that when you leave the reading solely at “snape is neville’s greatest fear, snape traumatized neville so much” you’re a) ignoring and/or passing over a lot of neville’s kind of shitty backstory which explains why he’s so nervous and timid to begin with and b) failing to understand the entire point of the scene itself, which is really more about harry’s connection to fear and maturity than about neville. neville is another kid in this scene, with another kid fear. his fear of snape is not unusual or dramatic even in the context of the scene itself (everyone laughs about it, even neville. lupin doesn’t seem concerned at all about it – wouldn’t he, if neville is deeply traumatized?). harry’s fear is meant to be the unusual/dramatic one in this scene…. because harry has been through more shit than all of these kids and thus has more mature fears.

anyway. i bolded the parts i especially loved but really i loved all of it bc what a great thoughtful careful reading of this scene!!!!! that’s what critical analysis looks like people.

I love you so much too tbh, because someone has to make these posts and you do. I usually go with the “enjoy what I enjoy, ship my ships, write my fic, ignore the hate” mindset, but sometimes I get pissed off. Because man, this is basic reading. Basic reading from books originally meant for kids. Idk fam, I’m no English major, but still, it’s obvious this is about Harry first, then about Lupin and Neville, and only last about Snape.
Idk boggarts are weird. I always thought they just representations of fear, but I guess sometimes they don’t (for Molly Weasley it seems to be especific fears). But yeah, in any case, I really think Neville:s boggart is a representation of deeper issues.

Bravo everyone! This is so worth the time to read!

Personally, I figure if Perfect-Teacher-Lupin isn’t the least bit concerned that Neville’s boggart is Snape, why should I be?

The definitive answer to “But he was Neville’s boggart”

When you find this on your dash and now have an in depth response to idiots

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In From The Cold – Chuksha – Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

The war is over and Severus is looking forward to a quiet Christmas Eve in front of the TV, then Harry Potter shows up on his doorstep because Minerva is an interfering old tabby.

In From The Cold – Chuksha – Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

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Picketing For Peace

Severus Snape never expected to go back to Spinner’s End. But when news of the 1984 Miner’s Strike, and subsequent sympathy picket in Cokeworth, hit the Daily Prophet front pages he couldn’t help himself, even if that meant facing his estranged father.

This story was a submission for Age range category 3 (20-30 years old) in the 2018 Snape Showcase over on LJ which has been publishing Snape!centric fics to coincide with Sev’s birthday and #SnapeWeek. Beta’d by the fantastic Snarry5evr.

Picketing For Peace

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Neurodivergent Snape Week!

snapeloveposts:

The first event of the year will be: Neurodivergent Snape Week! This event is dedicated to all of your Neurodivergent Snape headcanons, meta, fanart, etc. and the challenges he has to overcome because of it. The event will run from Monday, February 19th to Sunday, February 25th!

What is Neurodivergent (aka Neurodiversity)? Neurodiversity is all about accepting people who are neurologically
atypical which is why the theme of the prompts is ‘overcoming
challenges’.

Any of the following would be considered neurodivergent: Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
Dyscalculia, Autistic Spectrum, Tourette Syndrome, and mental illness.

Prompts:

  • Day 1: Childhood Relationship
  • Day 2: Slytherin House Dynamics
  • Day 3: Owls and Newt
    (basically job/higher education selection)
  • Day 4: Death Eater Politics
  • Day 5: Youngest Teacher on the Staff/Head of House (during and after the war)
  • Day 6: Harry Potter’s Arrival
  • Day 7: Voldemort’s Return/Becoming an Active Spy 

Theme: Overcoming Challenges


You can also choose to not use the prompts if you don’t want to, but
we just ask that you stick with the theme of ‘Overcoming Challenges’. 

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As always, we’re excited to see what you all come up with! And please reblog this post so others will see it! 😀

Oh this is going to be fun… so many ideas… and I do need to put them all here or I’ll lose them because dyslexic/dyspraxic #fitting

Snape with verbal dyspraxia? Mixing up sentences in his words that still somehow make sense because his brain autocorrected but his tongue didn’t.

Forgetful young teacher Snape finding out he’s dyslexic well after he left school (like I did)? “excuse me, you have seen my exam results i assure you i am not illiterate.” “no one said you were Severus, but have you seen your handwriting and workspace? It looks like a spider fell into an inkwell, wandered across the parchment and then let the bomb on it’s back off in the pile of paperwork you left on your desk three weeks ago and couldn’t find yesterday when you were supposed to be returning it to your first years.”

Dyspraxia- Suddenly not being able to ride a broomstick makes perfect sense.

ADHD- there’s just something about potions that calms him down.

Dyslexia- “hold on? The words don’t strobe at you when you’re tired? I don’t believe you! Why would you ever stop reading if they didn’t do that?”

“Why would I write anything down? it’s not like anyone, including me, will be able to read it later” but also “if I don’t take copious notes and write down every detail I will never remember any of this.” – pick your SPLD

“I LITERALLY had my wand in my hand three seconds ago, where the hell is it?!” In the fridge where you left it for some reason when getting a drink two hours ago.

Sev forgetting and leaving his wand lying around then trashing his quarters looking for it so many times in his first few months as a professor that three of his colleagues independently buy him wand holsters for Christmas

Verbal dyspraxia- “wait, I’m not shouting, stop telling me I’m shouting.”

a conversation with dyspraxia:

Severus: pass me the thing!

Minerva: what thing?

Severus points: the thing! minerva the thing! the long thing!

Minerva: grangers essay?

Severus: the pointy thing!

Minerva watching him brew: stirring rod?

Sev: THE THING minerva! for making the flames smaller

Minera watching him gesture: Oooh, your wand!

Severus: YES my wand! Duh!

Social dyspraxia- “don’t look at me like that, if you didn’t want an honest answer why did you ask for one?”

Autism/Asperger/ social dyspraxia- “why is she crying? What did I say this time? Stop looking at me like that I was only being honest!”

Dyslexia/dyspraxia and the pen grip issue- “Severus what did you do to your hands?” “wrote with a quill for more than three minutes, why?” “I haven’t seen a case of carpal tunnel this bad since Filius decided he was going to teach swish and flick spells to every year for a month.” “Are you suggesting I invest in a dicta-quill?” “If you don’t I swear you’ll get four under your Christmas tree when I tell all the staff that’s what you need.”

Dicta quills that don’t like his accent and keep leaving ink blotches because they stay on the parchment when he stops to think of a word and can’t remember it, and then they transcribe him rapidly talking around the word and talking to himself as he tries to riddle it out because it’s on the tip of his tongue

Foreign words, familiar notes?

Pretty please, would someone who understands psychobable stuffs ‘splain me the thing?

I wanna know why I think songs I know sound better in languages I mostly don’t (namely Italian right now) and I can relax to them more than English versions I’ve been listening to for years and know by heart?

Also why do I promptly forget the English lyrics when I hear foreign lyrics being sung to the same beat?

Black hair isn’t greasy

I have thick naturally jet black hair.

My dad’s Polish and my mum was Jamaican Indian, I got the European thick black hair, the Indian wave and the Caribbean fuzziness the minute it gets vaguely damp until it dries.

Do you know how much of a bitch it is to keep it not looking greasy af?

Like I wash it twice a week it doesn’t get greasy but the wrong light and boom I look like I just finished a twelve hour shift in a chippy on a Friday.

Greasy hair is not mobile, it doesn’t swing or move.

Greasy black hair is shiny and looks like something out of an anime

Greasy hair clings to the skin it doesn’t hang down around the face in curtains

If healthy straight jet black hair doesn’t look slightly greasy it’s because it’s dry and damaged or it’s been bleached and dyed

Now do I really have to clarify what prompted me to make this post?

Come join the Severus Space!

mysnarkyslytherinsecret:

Hey everyone!  I’ve been kinda quiet lately due to some end of the season writing crises (plural), so anyway, I wanted to let you know if you like chatting about Snapey things, I’ve created a Discord for that, since most people aren’t a big fan of Skype. There will be some clearly marked NSFW channels, but most of them will be fine for most folks.

Here is the link.

This place seems lively 🙂