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God, I'm now revisiting Harrow The Ninth and this book is just nothing short of one heartbreak after another.

I can't blame people for forgetting how deeply vulnerable of a person Harrow can be, she is constantly wearing a mask and we only get to hear of her from Gideons perspective, and for good reasons because if she was the one to narrate HtN? It would read as a constant breakdown.

Luffy at his first Pride maybe? idk but HAPPY PRIDE

The Prank

It goes to say how many Marauders' stans are desperate to absolve Sirius in this incident and completely overlooked the fact that it was a joke/trick/prank - both of which were referenced as such in different dialogue. Young Severus didn't just decide to casually walk in there to have tea and scones with WereRemus knowing he had the 'key' to get in.

No, he was tricked to go in there.

[Snape] “…your saintly father and his friends played a highly amusing joke on me which would have resulted in my death if your father hadn’t got cold feet at the very last moment. […] Had their joke succeeded, he [James] would have been expelled from Hogwarts.”

PoA CH14

Oh, yes. Must be highly amusing when you're risking the life of a peer who caught you out on your little furry secret. James getting cold feet at the last moment makes sense when you consider they have access to the Marauder's Map and the Invisibility Cloak, so they would have seen Severus on the Map and knew he was on his way. Sirius literally didn't need to 'hand him the key' - that was Sirius' choice to do so and could have hidden in the Willow, and Severus would have never known they were there. So James (and even Peter to open the Willow in the first place) would have already had to be present. If we take into consideration that Severus glimpsed WereRemus at the end of the tunnel, we know that he had already transformed and was not even locked up, so James was there waiting, therefore he was in on the joke, too.

Because also common sense tells me that Sirius would never have planned anything with Severus as their target without James by his side.

Of course, murderous psychotic individuals run in Sirius' family so he took pleasure in this, considering he was still gloating about it about 15 years later.

[Severus Snape] “And did the headmaster tell you the circumstances in which your father saved my life?” He whispered, “ Or did he consider the details too unpleasant for precious Potter’s delicate ears?”

[...]

“Sirius Black showed me he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen, “ he breathed, “You haven’t forgotten that, Headmaster? You haven’t forgotten that he once tried to kill me?”

“My memory is as good as it ever was, Severus, “ said Dumbledore quietly.

PoA

The sad thing in this is, the fact that this was an attempt to maul/infect/murder Severus. A joke so dangerous, that there was a high risk of being attacked by a dark creature. WereRemus wasn't locked up. This was deliberate.

[Remus Lupin] “Professor Snape was at school with us. He fought very hard against my appointment to the Defense Against the Dark Arts job. He has been telling Dumbledore all year that I am not to be trusted. He has his reasons… you see, Sirius here played a trick on him which nearly killed him, a trick which involved me —”

~ PoA CH18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

And:

“Severus was very interested in where I went every month.” Lupin told Harry, Ron, and Hermione. “We were in the same year, you know, and we — er — didn’t like each other very much. He especially disliked James. Jealous, I think, of James’s talent on the Quidditch field… anyway Snape had seen me crossing the grounds with Madam Pomfrey one evening as she led me toward the Whomping Willow to transform. Sirius thought it would be — er — amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he’d be able to get in after me. Well, of course, Snape tried it — if he’d got as far as this house, he’d have met a fully grown werewolf — but your father, who’d heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape and pulled him back, at great risk to his life… Snape glimpsed me, though, at the end of the tunnel. He was forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody, but from that time on he knew what I was…”

"So that's why Snape doesn't like you," said Harry slowly, "because he thought you were in on the joke?"

"That's right," sneered a cold voice from the wall behind Lupin.

~ PoA CH18: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs

And:

"Vengeance is very sweet," Snape breathed at Black. "How I hoped I would be the one to catch you...."

"The joke's on you again, Severus," Black snarled. "As long as this boy brings his rat up to the castle" -- he jerked his head at Ron -- "I'll come quietly...."

~ PoA CH19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

We do not know what this 'prank' properly entailed, but we do know it was enough for a young boy - inquisitive, intelligent, and bright enough - to risk going in there. Sirius was sadistic and took pleasure in the torture of others - we see him there when Severus is tripped by James and initiated with Snivellus on the first train ride to Hogwarts, and perking up like 'a dog sensing his prey' when spotting Severus, and James attacked him because Sirius was bored. This was the norm for Sirius to get some sort of twisted entertainment at the expense of the suffering of another, especially if that other was Severus. And considering his deranged cousin Bellatrix also likes to 'play with their food', well...the similarities between them are uncanny.

The only thing I can suggest that would ever force Severus to go in there - and this is delving into my headcanon theory - is Lily.

Sirius, as twisted as he was, knew Severus and Lily were friends. And knowing full well James had been pursuing her for a while, he needed Severus out of the picture. Likely permanently, considering how horrendous this prank was. And he was willing to risk his own friend and weaponize him to do it, using his werewolf side as bait.

But get this - I really think Sirius baited Severus using Lily to go into the Whomping Willow that night. And he must have told Severus that Lily went to Remus in the Shack and was in danger on the night of his transformation. And this holds water because it appears that he's had this conversation with Lily before.

"They sneak out at night. There's something weird about that Lupin. Where does he keep going?"

"He's ill," said Lily. "They say he's ill--"

"Every month at the full moon?" said Snape.

"I know your theory," said Lily, and she sounded cold. "Why are you so obsessed with them anyway? Why do you care what they're doing at night?"

"I'm just trying to show you they're not as wonderful as everyone seems to think they are."

DH The Princes Tale

So Severus, sadly gullible, feared that Lily was about to put herself in danger because she didn't believe his theory, so Severus - tricked by Sirius - went after her. Aside from the fact that Lily was quick to dismiss him, she may have been more privy to Remus' issue than she led Severus to believe.

That is the only motivation I can think of that Severus would ever risk himself going in there, was for Lily's safety.

But let's not forget that this joke was Sirius' and James' idea (given the evidence). James simply got cold feet at the last minute and saved Severus for his friends, not because he actually valued his life.

So again, it is abhorrent to blame the victim when they were tricked into confronting a Dark Creature.

Severitus Fics I Love

Here is a list of some of my favs! Most of these are on everyone’s rec list, but hopefully someone out in the void finds something new to read here. That being said, always read tags!

anybody else notice how convoluted and honestly bad the Hogwarts housing system is? I've been thinking a lot about it lately, and there are some things that really don't sit right with me.

first, the sorting hat supposedly decides a person's house by which one will bring a person to their greatest potential, whether bad or good being decided by the individual, completely ignoring if a person values happiness over success or vice versa. for example, snape. the man would have done just fine in ravenclaw (and he had the mind for it), and he would have been happier as he wouldn't have fallen in with the death eaters, thereby wouldn't have been influenced into their bloodpurists views, subsequently keeping his friendship with Lily all the while not forming a rivalry with the marauders. this is not to say he wouldn't have found bad influences in racenclaw or wouldn't ever have found himself on the marauders' bad side, but I think we can all agree his social network wouldn't have been nearly as toxic had he been placed in ravenclaw. nevertheless, the sorting hat saw the potential slytherin offered him as a future spy and dumbledore's right hand man, resulting in snape losing all chance of a happy life in which he didn't bully innocent children because they might've saved his obsession's life in another timeline. with that in mind, the marauders would have done incredibly well as slytherins. they were cunning, enough to figure out how to become animagi before they were even halfway through school, without anyone figuring it out (besides McGonagall, i refuse to believe she didn't know). they also created the marauders' map, a stunning mosaic of advanced spellwork and potions. they kept remus' werewolf secret for their whole lives (except for The Prank obviously). they spent countless hours creating pranks specifically designed to screw with people they didn't like. this seems a bit familiar, yes? draco malfoy, goblet of fire, those stupid badges he made about harry and cedric, and then later "weasley is our king" in ootp. now, while the other pranksters of the wizarding world were certainly just as smart and creative in their pranking, there is one important difference. the weasley twins mainly just wanted to cause chaos and a bit of fun in an otherwise boring (at least to them) environment. the marauders and draco often specifically targeted someone or a group of people (*cough* slytherins *cough*) whether obvious or not. while Peter is the outlier in this example, he was not without cunning. he spent a significant part of the war betraying his best friends just to make sure he would come out on top, again, without anyone realizing. the marauders may have been courageous, but I think that their cunning overshadowed their bravery by a long shot, but the sorting hat saw the path Gryffindor offered them: direct ties to the greatest hero known to the wizarding world. the only excuse for these housing mistakes is that the sorting hat is dumbledore's dramatic little weasel.

speaking of the sorting hat, its blood status bias is off the charts. how else can we explain the uneven distribution of purebloods and muggleborns? are there no cunning muggleborns? we know that's not true because of hermione, who also would have been a great candidate for slytherin. also, regulus. I can't imagine he would have done any worse in ravenclaw than he did in slytherin. the biggest reason he was in slytherin was cowardice born from fear of disappointing his parents as his older brother did. this only ruled him out of gryffindor, though, not ravenclaw. however, as the "pure blood" house, the sorting thought it a better fit for him. in slytherin, he suffered, and his cowardice continued to be nurtured along with pureblood ideals until the moment his conflicting character traits went head to head and he died at the tragic age of 18, estranged from his brother and stuck in a war he had no choice but to join but finally having let his conscience win. this is the great potential the sorting hat gave him. if the sorting had ignored his blood status, he could have been a hero of the war alongside his brother, or, more than likely, he would've still died young in a war he had no choice but to join. despite this, the sorting hat placed yet another pureblood in slytherin while keeping other more deserving characters such as Hermione and Remus in gryffindor. yet another example is Neville. he would have done so much better in Hufflepuff where he would have been nurtured instead of mocked. snape wouldn't have hated him as much because of the rivalry. and he would have had better access to the greenhouses with sprout as his head of house. instead, the sorting hat put him in Gryffindor where so many other purebloods had been put before because it is one of the two "main" houses where people are more likely to be noticed.

finally, distribution. there is no way to place people evenly and equally in the houses as first years while still doing justice to their potentials and personalities. if the sorting hat were to give an equal number of students to each house every year, there would absolutely be kids in houses completely unfit for them. this is not a slight against the sorting hat; this is plain fact. there is just no way that each year of students could be evenly distributed between houses. however, if one house gets say 12 students and another gets 2, that isn't fair to each house. the house that gets more students would have more responsibility to keep their kids in line, keep their grades up, stuff like that, but they would have a better chance of winning the house cup (more kids to win house points) and quidditch cup (more kids to choose from with a greater variety of skills). meanwhile, the smaller house could have two super smart kids, bringing up their yearly average, but they would be less likely to win house points, and it would be difficult to be picky about who was on the quidditch team. another danger would be if there was only one kid in a house in one year. the kid would be more isolated and would have a hard time making friends. it would be a very lonely 7 years. beyond that, what if there were no kids sorted into a house in one year? one seventh of house points are lost, and that whole grade loses an entire section of people who are meant to help them develop. either way, equal distribution with bad housing placements or unequal distribution with unfairness, many kids each year suffer.

in conclusion, while funky and fun on paper, the housing system has many flaws, including but not limited to potential prioritized over happiness, obvious bias, and bad distribution management. this is not even accounting for the stereotypes and prejudices that come with each house, yet another mark that people have to live with but get no choice in. it would be far better if the kids were sorted by age with specific interests being available through clubs and allowing kids to choose their roommates as they grow up. however, no system will ever be perfect, but we can at least try to minimize the negative effects kids have to deal with because of a choice they didn't even get to make.

So this post appeared on my feed because I was dumb and said I was interested in things tagged "Severus Snape" because I forget how things work sometimes.

I gave them a long response but I think it's a banger so I've cleaned it up to share.

To preface, I'll say that I was still in school when the books were starting to come out, and so I was in school during the period the books are set. I wasn't in the UK and can't speak to specifics there, but my own.

"Why do you like Snape? He was just so horrible!"

Because he fought against Voldemort to assuage his guilt, at the cost of his personal reputation.

Because he extended Dumbledore's life.

Because he saved Katie Bell.

Because he was a Potions prodigy.

Because he had a rough childhood.

Because he loved Lily Evans.

Because he was a great Occlumens.

Because he must've bene afraid every time he had to return to Voldemort, but did it anyway.

Because he showed us that you don't have to be Sorted into Gryffindor to be a hero.

Because he helped to keep a watch on Quirrel.

Because he showed Fudge his Dark Mark to try and convince him of the Dark Lord's return.

Because he was worried when a student was taken into the Chamber of Secrets

Because he was the only Death Eater who could cast a Patronus.

Because he could've moved over to the Dark side at any time, but didn't.

Because he asked Sirius Black to remain back at Grimmauld Place and cared about his safety.

Because he tried to save Lupin from the Death Eaters, while risking an exposure.

Because it was he who indirectly taught Harry his signature spell.

Because it was Snape who easily defeated Lockhart in the duel.

Because he protected Hermione and Luna.

Because he helped Harry to get hold of Gryffindor's Sword.

Because he made the Unbreakable Vow and looked after Malfoy.

Because he gave Umbridge fake Veritaserum.

Because he brewed the Wolfsbane Potion for one of the Marauders.

Because he asked Phineas Nigellus to not call Hermione a 'Mudblood'

Because he shared the memories which were required to destroy Voldemort.

Because he was outraged at the fact that Dumbledore had treated Harry as if he were disposable.

Because he didn't allow the Carrows to torture anyone.

Because he expressed his regret at not being able to save everyone he could.

Because he was willing to give Dumbledore "anything" to save Lily's life.

Because he sacrificed his life for the Greater Good.

Because he was the bravest person Harry Potter ever knew.

Because he showed us that you can always have a change of heart. Always.

I think it is pretty clear why Snape hated James Potter so much , he was a man who worked so hard to make sure that his friendship with lily went down the drain during school years , managed to marry her , and yet was to foolish, weak and arrogant to keep her and her boy safe , for somebody like Snape who basically sold his life and soul to dubledor, a man he hated at the time, just to give her family additional protection , and risking day after day of being discovered by the mind reading monster he had served and given a fate worse than death (regulus preferred death than the consequence of betrayal for a good damn reason and I'm sure many others were the same ), James Potter refusal to bend the knee even after lily got pregnant must have seemed unthinkable , and he may have heard from Dumbledor that the man was sneaking out so much, leaving lily and her child behind , the bloody leader of their army had to punish him like a child by taking away his "special cloak ". And add to this that it was Sirius black who sold them out ...just what do you expect from Snape ? Forgiveness and understanding ?would you be forgiving and understanding after all of this ? James Potter was young and foolish while Snape had to trick Voldemort on the daily just to stay alive , no one gave him the opportunity to be arrogant and immature because he would have been dead if he even tried ! All the times I have that if they lived James would have matured ...he had Snape same exact age !!

I genuinely have no clue where this fandom gets the idea that James and Snape were rivals. The definition of rivalry is competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field.

If James and Snape were rivals, as many like to call them, what were they competing for?

Lily?

No. Snape and Lily were best friends, years before James and Snape even met. And Lily is not a “prize to be won” which many people—including James, as we see in SWM—fail to understand.

Their studies? [I’m including this because I’ve actually seen someone try to use this argument before]

No. That had nothing to do with their feud. And James and Snape excelled in different subjects. Snape was brilliant at potions and DADA. James was highly knowledgeable in transfiguration.

Unlike Harry and Draco (who were rivals when it came to Quidditch), James and Snape had nothing you could argue they were “competing over.”

Another important thing many people seem to forget about rivalries is that it means equality. Rivals’ statuses/dynamics are meant to be balanced. Does that apply to Snape and James?

James Potter: was a rich, well-groomed, spoiled pureblood Gryffindor.

Severus Snape: was a poor, unattractive, neglected half-blood Slytherin.

It can only ever be called a rivalry when both sides are equally powerful, which cannot be said for James and Snape whatsoever.

A huge reason as to why people like to call it that is because Snape apparently “gave as good as he got” (I like how there was not a single time that phrase was ever used in the series). They use a line said by Remus—one of Snape’s bullies, funnily enough—in OoTP as evidence of Snape’s supposed fighting back:

To a majority of this fandom, never losing an opportunity (opportunity: a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something, Remus never said anything about Snape succeeding all the time) to curse James—who, in the author’s words, relentlessly bullied Snape for the past six years—in their 7th year (one year) meant “giving as good as he got” and automatically cancels out everything James did to Snape for the six years before that.

Demonising Snape for wanting to get back at James after being subjected to bullying, assault, and even attempted murder (the werewolf prank) for years is complete and utter victim-blaming. If the victim fights back, it is to be called self-defence, not “bullying back” (there is no such thing anyway) or a rivalry. Acting as though in order to be a “good victim”—whatever that’s supposed to mean—you have to take the bullying lying down, and if you defend yourself, you’re reclassified as the bad guy, is genuinely disgusting to me. If a woman were to defend herself against her assaulters, would she be in the wrong, would that negate what the assaulters did to her?

The pro-bullying and victim-blaming attitude that comes from this fandom is revolting. Defending oneself does not alter the dynamic from a person with more power bullying a victim to a rivalry between two equals. When will people learn to understand that?

And besides, there is absolutely nothing to back up Remus’s claim. In fact, there is more evidence that he was lying:

Moving on, none of the Marauders’ reasons for bullying Snape exactly scream rivalry:

Tell me, does this seem like a rivalry to you?

To all the people who think James “did god’s work” by bullying Snape, I hope you realise that you sound like horrible people for thinking that sexual assault, especially when it was done to a child (if you like to call 16 year old James who committed SA “a child” then I have every right to call Snape a child when he was the same age and was actually the person the SA was done to), or bullying, could ever be justified.

Snape became a Death Eater after they graduated, so you can’t use that as an excuse. And do people not realise that a poor, half-blood Slytherin being bullied by rich popular Gryffindors would only drive him further away from the light side?

And no matter how awful you think teen!Snape might’ve been—that would still never, ever justify James’s actions in SWM. You do not have to be perfect to be a victim, you don’t even have to be a good person to be a victim. Not being an innocent saint does nothing to erase being bullied or assaulted, and the fact that Snape antis have continuously twisted the narrative in order to try and make Snape look like the bad guy when he was canonically the one who was bullied, harassed, and nearly killed, is just revolting.

Using logic like “he deserved it,” “it’s his fault for not wearing trousers,” “it’s his fault for being a curious teenager,” “he did other bad things so that makes it okay,” etc, makes you sound almost as shitty as James and Sirius. You aren’t fictional characters, your words and actions hold power, and you should understand that claims like that are the very things that awful people have said to try and disregard real-life victims.

Bullying should never be glorified, no matter who it’s done to or done by. Period.

i think one of the reasons i go so hard for severus snape is because i truly do not think the fandom really understands the gravity of what it meant to be a spy for the order/double agent death eater.

from the pieces we see of what they are like...? dangling the muggles upside down in their pajamas at the quidditch world cup? torturing people into insanity using the cruciatus curse? that absolute nightmare of a scene in the opening of the deathly hallows? the way voldemort slaughtered people after the absolute failure at malfoy manor? i could go on. snape snaps at harry for using voldemort's name multiple times.

the very fact that severus snape used to be a death eater greatly shames him. he is ashamed and is repentant. we see this in his scene with 'mad eye moody' in 'goblet of fire'.

it's funny because the fandom seems to understand just how awful the death eaters were which is why they can't forgive snape for being one (which isn't a very good reason considering how much they project and love regulus) but simultaneously diminish and understate the impact it must have had on snape to rejoin such a nightmare.

it really annoys me how 'the prisoner of azkaban' frames it as peter pettigrew getting away and sirius not getting his name cleared is snape's fault. firstly, if anything it's lupin's fault for wolfing out after neglecting to take the one thing that makes him safe, an incident which peter uses to his advantage.

but mainly because neither remus or sirius give snape any good reason to actually listen to them or believe them. and i think you'd be hard pressed to find evidence to support the idea that he should have. sirius just sounds completely unhinged and his actions do not make him appear to be innocent e.g. laughing whilst he was found at 'the scene if the crime' in 1981, slashing the fat lady's portait, breaking into the gryffindor boy's common with a KNIFE slashing at ron's canopy, and then breaking ron's leg. too many points against him i fear.

and remus is very different from my first impressions. book remus is almost...indifferent to most? i think it's fairly obvious that he clearly has another agenda going on within the book than just helping harry. but he neglects to tell dumbledore that he knows full well many ways to get in and out of the castle when they think sirius is trying to murder harry, not even after sirius breaks into the gryffindor boy's bedrooms. and if he had the map to dumbledore after he confiscated it due to not wanting harry wandering around if sirius could get in, dumbledore probably would have seen pettigrew's name on it himself, and have solved it way sooner. and let's not forget remus neglecting to tell dumbledore that sirius was an animagus.

but whatever, we need snape to be a villain.

i was gonna post about how annoying i found the beginning of 'the prince's tale' in how 8/9 year old severus is written. barely a sentence in and he's described to have 'undisguised greed' on his face. or the petunia incident which raises the ire of fans but made me feel incredibly concerned because it literally confirms that snape's household is abusive because while it was underage magic, he hurt someone. where do you think he learned to respond like that?

but then i remembered of course that we are viewing these memories from the perspective of harry. which makes the way snape is written very interesting because we see how harry's opinion of him changes. he goes from a greedy dirty kid to the kid who is conspicuously uncared for and begotten compared to others etc etc.

the best example is probably the 'irksome fly' line. an annoying pest to brush off indifferently. of course harry believes he is nothing to snape, and i think you can make a good argument to believe this is true considering what snape says later. however, the very next line is dumbledore saying he has lily's eyes and snape begging him stop and expressing suicidal thoughts. which is a completely different perspective to someone who is indifferent because he clearly isn't. this all matters a LOT to snape.

and while we see the scene later with dumbledore simply saying snape sees what he expects to in harry, you can practically hear dumbledore waving snape and his concerns away. expectation - conjecture, presumption, projection. he's projecting his own grief onto harry to cloud over lily because to face that would be too much. he wanted to kill himself at the very idea of harry having her eyes, let alone seeing them everyday for years.

and i know a lot of people don't really take the 'james face lily eyes' and how that affects snape seriously, but i think at the very least, harry recognises in that very moment why snape was the way he was with him.

because it just boils down to snape flat out refusing to see the lily in him. Only moments before in the memory, dumbledore explicitly tells him that harry's eyes, the so-called 'window to the soul' are LILY'S. but in the very next moment, all snape sees is james. "you see what you expect to see severus."

he expects to not be able to see past james and not just because of the misery james brought him. but because to see past james would be to see lily, and snape couldn't do it.

until the end.

the thing that completely makes the 'the marauders/james and snape were both as bad as each other' argument completely false is the fact that... take a look at james in particular, born in a privileged position, loved by his parents, rich, pureblood. then take a look at snape, born in a poor family, has an abusive father and a neglectful mother, a halfblood. the other marauders, but especially sirius, completely complicit in bullying this kid just for existing. (because snape was not a death eater when he was in hogwarts nor was there any reason to believe he would be one from the very moment he arrived at hogwarts other than the marauders' prejudice towards slytherins.) this boy, was abused at home and bullied at school by these kids who just decided to make his life miserable just because they felt like it. growing up bullied and abused can make a person cold and mean. 'hurt people hurt people.' snape was not a bad person when he was a student at hogwarts, his bad decisions in life came after leaving hogwarts. and maybe it would help to consider the fact that his bad decisions come from the fact that his entire life he had been treated miserably by everyone around him, and he was abandoned by his best and only friend. lily was amused when he was being lifted up and had his genitals exposed in front of a crowd of students. lily married the man who made going to school a horrible experience for severus. none of the marauders (apart from perhaps lupin, but even that is debatable) ever showed any remorse for their actions, and if they did, none of them ever cared to apologize to snape for years of bullying and nearly getting him killed. james only has a 'redemption arc' in fanon. he is never actually shown to have matured. getting older and having a child is not maturing, even immature and irresponsible people can have children. (clearly, look at snape's father.) the only people who treated snape even remotely humanely were slytherins that would grow up to become death eaters. slytherins who were older than him too. and you don't think at all that that sounds awfully similar to being groomed into a cult? he switched sides and became a spy at great risk of his own life. he worked with dumbledore despite dumbledore never being shown to do anything to stop the bullying that happened to snape while he was in school. if snape remained loyal to voldemort, the wizarding world would have been screwed. he was mean, yes. bitter, yes. cold, yes. the man hasn't had a day of comfort in his life. from start to finish, he's been drenched in misery. that's bound to make someone feel and act miserably. but at the end of the day, he did what was right. meanwhile what did james do? bullied people and then died. what a hero, i guess?

Knighty opinion: I dont wanna harry potter remake or a marauders period anything

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IN MY HONEST OPINON I REALLY DONT WANT A MARAUDERS SPIN OFF.

BECAUSE THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT SEVERUS TOBIAS SNAPE IS AN UNLIKED CHARATER – MANY DONT UNDERSTAND HIM AND REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND HIM. 

THEY GO AS FAR AS TO PRAISE JAMES FOR ABSUING HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A SLIMY GIT – FUTURE DEATH EATER – SLYTHERIN 

OR AS JAMES SAYS : JUST CAUSE HE EXIST.

TAKE YOUR PICK.

CAN YOU IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE THE DO GIVE A MARAUDERS SPIN OFF – CAN YOU SEE THAT THEY WOULD DO SEVERUS ANY JUSTICE?

NO! 

THERE ARE SO MANY  MARAUDERS STANS WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT WHAT THOSE BOYS DID – THEY SAY THEY GREW AND CHANGED. 

 THEY ARE THE MAJORITY!

THERE ARE SO MANY WHO FEEL JILY IS LIKE THIS SOUL MATE – ROMEO AND JULIET -ISH 

AND I MEAN I GUESS IN A SENSE IT IS – FORBIDDEN LOVE

BECAUSE JAMES WAS ABUSING HER BEST FRIEND ITS SO ICK OF HER TO DO THAT!

AND SHE CLAIMED TO HATE HIM FOR HIS ARROGANT WAYS.  

ITS ALL JUST PERFECT THAT SEVERUS REALLY DID BECOME A DEATH EATER BECAUSE HE WAS GROOMED INTO IT BECAUSE HE HAD NO OTHER SUPPORT AROUND HIM. 

(ITS A WONDER DO YOU THINK JAMES WAS INFLUENCED  INTO BEING A BULLY? BY HIS DEATH EATER RAISED FRIEND – SIRIUS BLACK.

THEY CLAIMED THEY WEREN’T LIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDN;T USE THE WORD MUD BLOOD –

OTHER WISE THE WAY THEY JUST ABUSED SEVERUS WAS COOL.)

IT PERFECT THAT SEVERUS CALLED HER A MUDBOOD – BECAUSE NOT A FEW YEARS LATER SHE MARRIED JAMES BECAUSE 

“SHE GOT TO KNOW HIM AND HE CHANGED!” 

“jAME GREw As A pErsON – SNAPE DIDN’T!”

YALL REALLY THINK THEY GONNA GIVE MY MAN SEVERUS A CHANCE? 

IN THE RISK OF BRINGING TO LIGHT HOW AWFUL LILY WAS TO HIM, AND WHAT A LOSER JAMES WAS?

no

THEY WON’T

I need fic recs where the marauders' bullying of snape is not just a moment of shock for harry and then brushed off entirely. I need fics where they're actually held accountable for the damage they've done to him and actually face consequences, and I need them now. Lest I'll have to write them myself.

Snape didn’t know Harry had been abused

Albus kept everything he knew to himself (and I don’t think he knew much either, because he wasn’t really interested, as long as Harry was alive).

Professor McGonagall could have told others that the Dursleys spoilt their son. While it could mean that he was their golden child, it could also mean that they spoilt children in general.

According to the additional story, it was James who caused the breakup of Lily and Petunia’s relationship. At that point Snape wasn’t Lily’s friend anymore, so he didn’t know about it.

But he knew that when they had been friends, Lily cared about her sister. He also knew that Lily’s parents had been happy that their daughter had been a witch and that Petunia had wanted to be a witch too.

He didn’t know Vernon who was probably the main reason behind Harry’s abuse.

When Harry showed up at Hogwarts, he had a lot of money and could buy whatever he wanted, everything new and of excellent quality. If Snape had used some Legillimency during the first Potions lesson, he could have seen that Harry wanted to buy a golden couldron.

Harry’s traits—like arrogance or love for sweets as a child—were caused by home abuse, but they could have also stemmed from being spoilt.

In the third year the Dursleys didn’t give Harry a permit to visit Hogsmeade. While we know they were mean, the teachers could have understood that they were afraid for Harry’s safety when Sirius Black was on the loose.

Because of all the above, Snape could believe that Harry was simply spoilt, not abused.

It wasn’t until the Occlumency lessons when Snape saw Harry’s memories and realised that Harry had been abused.

Curiously, it was that year when the Order members talked to the Dursleys at the train station. What changed? Harry had always been talking that the Dursleys were horrible… but he had also never added any details, so it could just have meant that they were so "Muggle" and boring unlike the Wizarding World. Dumbledore wasn’t interested in Harry’s situation. The Weasleys ignored Harry’s situation even when Ron and the twins brought him home after the first year. The only thing that changed was Snape having had access to Harry’s memories. He could have told Dumbledore about it, then Dumbledore informed some Order members and told the Dursleys off himself when he was picking Harry up at the beginning of the HBP.