“I love that character,” I say as I come up with upsetting headcanons for them. “Absolutely adore them,” I tell you as I bunny up sad story ideas for them. “They’re my favorite,” I sigh as I pick the most depressing songs for a playlist for them.
“I just want them to be happy,” I insist as I write horribly angsty oneshots centered around their misery.
“My son,“ I say as I think warmly about his broken body huddled on the ground.
“I love you so much”, I say, as I fill them with self hatred.
lol oh wow i forgot i had this in my drafts from earlier today
i have yet to figure out a comment for this its just so wild
i had a good laugh with my sister over this
i cant believe snape is basically stalin
Do not compare fictional characters from a children’s book series to two leaders who did infinitely more harm than Voldemort ever did. Out of respect for the victims who died or barely lived in the events of the World War II and afterwards, don’t.
Also, did Snape kill 60 million people?
Snape didn’t:
cause a famine in Ukraine
place the highest bid and buy Poland from America at Yalta then proceed to rape the country and its resources for four and a half decades
completely destroy any possibility of Socialism being an acceptable option to the masses because he completely cocked it up and fucked up Lenin’s plans
Murder anyone who posed a political threat to him.
Involve himself in fighting because he was worried about his own security or narrow self-interest.
So not only is he nothing like Stalin, but he’s also a much better man than FDR and Churchill.
“but in the end, Harry and his two friends got all the credit, with Snape getting set on fire in the process. Charming.”
“Of course, when he had to take over Lupin’s lesson, he may have accidentally taught his class how to spot a werewolf, but that was a complete coincidence.”
“Finally, everything’s coming up Severus!”
“Cometh the hour, cometh the Severus.”
“Dumbledore assigned Snape yet another task, and it may have been Snape’s biggest mission yet: to hang out with Harry Potter.”
“Despite all his efforts, everyone still thought he was the worst.”
“Say what you will about the Potions master, we can all agree that he’s no fool.”
“In other words, Snape tried to save Harry’s life, and the only thanks he got was being set on fire. Harsh.”
“As children, Harry, Ron and Hermione had looked at the sarcastic and strict Professor Snape as something of a pantomime villain – the bitter Potions master, stewing in the dungeons. As adults, they learn Snape is far more complex.”
“Snape has taught us that there are no good men and bad men, that we are born full of foibles, and complexities and painted in thousands of different shades.”
Severus had seen Lily Evans many times. What he had not, and refused to see, was Lily Potter, nor the spawn of his most hated of enemies, which now rested against his mother’s heaving bosom, his little head covered with dark, unruly hair, and his little eyes shut as he slept, as uncaring about his mother’s anguish as his father was, most likely.
“Dumbledore’s having us go into hiding soon, but I needed to talk to someone,” Lily said, sniffling a little as she dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief, her other arm carefully supporting her week-old son.
“But why come to me?” Severus drawled as he flicked his wand, conjuring a modest tea tray as he spoke. “I am hardly upon the side of light that is good and whole, and indeed you have not spoken to me since our schooldays, Mrs Potter.”
Lily winced at the title, and her arm tensed protectively around her child.
“I know what people say about you,” she said, her voice hardened, but still slightly choked with tears. “I don’t believe it. I know you, Sev, and you’re not evil, you just want people to think you are.”
“And I work for a man who wants you dead,” Severus filled in, and Lily giggled, her voice almost hysterical as she sat there, making it clear that she did not believe at all that Severus shared the Dark Lord’s sentiment.
And she would be right.
Not that the Dark Lord was to know that—no one, save Albus, knew that.
“What do you want, Lily?” Severus finally asked after an extended silence, and levelled his dark gaze with her, but she was not intimidated.
“When Harry was born, they did some sort of…of test on him,” Lily began, fresh tears flooding her vibrant eyes, and Severus cursed inwardly. He knew the test she spoke of, and based on her reaction, he could guess what the little brat had tested as.
“The Alpha, Beta, and Omega verification procedure, correct?” Severus asked, and she nodded.
“I’d never heard of it before,” Lily continued, “apparently only people with magical blood can test as alpha or omega, and then…”
She blinked, and tears streaked her cheeks, dripping from her chin and onto the checked blanket that the child was wrapped so snugly in.
“Lily,” Severus said, keeping his voice hard as he regarded her. “Did Harry test as omega?”
From The Hollow Alpha, coming soon to AO3.
…Well??? IS HE??
(How DARE you make me wait to find out…!)
*squeals and obsessively checks emails for the notification that @JBankai89 has posted this on Ao3*
I’m fairly certain enslaving and demanding eternal loyalty from political refugees who come to you seeking sanctuary is illegal.
I’m sure I heard somewhere that blackmailing political refugees who come to you for help into spying for you by threatening their loved ones is illegal.
I’m pretty certain that kidnapping children to train them to fight a war for you when their guardians have explicitly stated they don’t want them involved is illegal.
I’m sure someone told me that allowing your people to weaponise illnesses against the perceived enemy is illegal.
I’m fairly certain that sending unofficial envoys to foreign powers to request support to fight in a civil war is illegal.
I’m certain that forming your own side in a civil war is shady AF and may be illegal *flicks hastily through the Geneva convention*… let me get back to you on that one…
I know that conspiring to infiltrate your own government with sleeper agents for a group of vigilantes so they can move into strategically useful positions at the right time might be clever but it’s also treason
I’m convinced that using alcohol when questioning a prisoner to make them open up counts as forcing a confession which is illegal
Fact: Using children as human shields is both illegal and morally repugnant
Fact: forcing innocent third party bystanders to fight on your behalf by stripping them of their free will so they will commit crimes for you is illegal
Continuing to wage war when a ceasefire (however temporary) has been agreed is illegal.
Imprisoning children and denying them the opportunity to escape to safety in a war zone is definitely a war crime
Don’t be like Dumbldore, McGonagall and Potter. Nuremberg wants a word with them. Be good generals, don’t break the law to win a war.
Sincerely,
People afraid that there will one day be a generation of military leaders and politicians who think Dumbldore, Mcgonagall & Potter are characters worth emulating.
He’s the boy who used ‘affluenza’ as a criminal defence and got the charges dropped.
He’s literally the spoilt rich kid who thinks the rules don’t apply to him and gets away (almost literally) with rape and murder because he was born into a rich family.
“That awkward moment when the US Army shows more care for its charges than the Gryffindor head of house.” – Evan, my other half
Minerva McGonagall denied a terrified, inept, child access to a safe refuge at night with a convict on the loose because she was angry at him.
Minerva McGonagall bullied an entire house full of teenagers into isolating said terrified child at a time of heightened security when they should have been sticking together.
I mean, Dear Gods, Even the US Army makes its new recruits do the whole Battle Buddy thing and anyone who’s ever served or knows anyone who has knows that the Army doesn’t give a Flying Fuck about its soldiers.
But go on, tell me how Snape is the monster in that book for feeding a Toad shrinking solution that is easily identifiable by sight, smell and the fact that he knew the class Know-It-All had whispered the correct instructions into the incompetent child’s ear. I’ll Wait.
“That awkward moment when the US Army shows more care for its charges than the Gryffindor head of house.” – Evan, my other half
Minerva McGonagall denied a terrified, inept, child access to a safe refuge at night with a convict on the loose because she was angry at him.
Minerva McGonagall bullied an entire house full of teenagers into isolating said terrified child at a time of heightened security when they should have been sticking together.
I mean, Dear Gods, Even the US Army makes its new recruits do the whole Battle Buddy thing and anyone who’s ever served or knows anyone who has knows that the Army doesn’t give a Flying Fuck about its soldiers.
But go on, tell me how Snape is the monster in that book for feeding a Toad shrinking solution that is easily identifiable by sight, smell and the fact that he knew the class Know-It-All had whispered the correct instructions into the incompetent child’s ear. I’ll Wait.
The only person who ever suggested that Snape had any sort of romantic link to Lily was Voldemort “he desired her, that is all.” Now, are we really trusting the judgement of a man who canonically doesn’t know what love is?
It makes more sense to me that he loved her like a sister, from when they were children.
No one ever said that a Patronus changed only for romantic love. In fact, if we take Harry as an example, his father was his Patronus, someone he considered would protect him and had died for him.What is there to say that something didn’t happen in their lives that made Severus think Lily had protected him at some point in a way that put her life at risk?
He loved her before he was ever capable of understanding romance and only ever showed concern about how James practically stalked Lily in school for five years.
It would make the way Harry brought Voldemort down even more perfect, not romance but real, honourable, platonic, love brought him down.
The same love Lily had for Harry.
The same Love that made Narcissa lie to Voldemort so she could go find her son.
The same love that Harry felt when he looked at his best friends which made it impossible for Voldemort to possess him in the department of mysteries.
It seems like the kind of thing J.K. would do.
This is why it didn’t matter whether Dumbledore protected just her or her and her entire family but also explains why Severus thought of her first.
This is why he protected her son for years- not because he was bitter or because he wished it was his son but because to him Harry was family, so it didn’t matter if Lily loved James or not.
She was never going to marry Severus and Severus probably never considered her in that light either- they had known each other too long.
He wanted her safe, “all of them safe”, he knew he had no role in her life, and he didn’t care as long as she got to live. He was willing to give “anything,” to keep them safe.
That’s not the actions of a jealous spurned lover, in my opinion, that’s a brother protecting his sister even if he doesn’t agree with her life choices and they’re estranged because that’s what families do.
Why are so many people changing their views on Snape after the scene on his memories? Does he deserve to be treated nicely?
Firstly, he was a human being, and so by definition deserved to be treated “nicely”, but I didn’t say that in my original reply as I didn’t want to start off on the wrong foot with someone asking a question in good faith.
I loved him from the first book, I loved his sense of humour, his willingness to put the golden trio in their place and his loyalty to his house. I identified with the teacher no one liked because he didn’t look ‘good’ and that only compounded when I read his memories. I saw how passionate he was about his subject and I rolled my eyes with him when Hermione quoted the textbook and expected praise. I appreciated a head of house who actually supported his students and encouraged them in the face of all the anti-Slytherin sentiment they had to put up with on a day-to-day basis from the other houses. I found the way Harry spoke to him was just entirely disrespectful and arrogant regardless of how Snape spoke to him- which wasn’t that bad initially and was a simple quiz to see if he’d read the set text. Snape proved his loyalty by the goblet of fire but time and time again he was treated like a pariah by the order and by the kids, and it irritated me.
I have a lot of shared experiences with that character, eg. Being bullied, poor background, poor social skills, isolated teenage years etc. and Sirius Black would have been lucky to leave that first conversation in Order of the Phoenix with his teeth in his head if he’d spoken to me the way he spoke to Snape. I respected Snape’s self-control and his restraint and felt bitter that he had been thrown aside for the good of Dumbledore’s precious Gryffindors time and time again.
His memories made no difference to me, it broke my heart to see him kill Dumbledore at the end of Half Blood Prince because that was the first time I ever questioned his loyalty. But then he still only ever acted defensively when duelling order members; even as he was running for his life he was still trying to make Harry learn occlumency (which he needed), and Harry completely missed the message because he was completely blind to Snape’s virtues and was so caught up in his faults.
Even if Snape had switched back to Voldemort’s side, I don’t think I’d have blamed him after the way the so-called light had treated him for years. He’s a better person than me that he still fought for those ungrateful, bigoted cretins after how they treated him. I don’t think I would have wanted to fight alongside them even against Voldemort. They may have been the lesser of two evils but for him to give them his life was an act so selfless that it makes him a great character and a better man.
I left my recipe for butterbeer alone for 2 mins (ok maybe three whilst i got a top up) and Professor Snape felt the need to correct it! Apparently, he likes green ink now(!)
He just can’t help himself…
Sarcastic git, I love him but really the insulin isn’t *strictly* necessary…
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