mental illness is weird because even if the toughest shit has been going on i didn’t shed a tear and then literally got a mental breakdown because i couldn’t find my watch the other day
What To Expect From The Zodiac Signs in 2016
Aries: Better job opportunities.
Taurus: Letting go of people and things that no longer serve a purpose in your life.
Gemini: Instead of living life in the fast lane they will be more attentive to the little things in life.
Cancer: To focus more on themselves and not trying to please other people who don’t appreciate it.
Leo: Bigger and better things. They will take more risk that will benefit them in the long run.
Virgo: To be more cautious about who they trust.
Libra: To be more aggressive and not taking any bullshit from anyone.
Scorpio: To have more patience and be more open to trusting others.
Sagittarius: To make the best use of everything that comes your way.
Capricorn: To follow their intuition and travel the world.
Aquarius: To take relationships to a deeper level.
Pisces: Higher expectations and being more assertive when it comes to fashion, music and your love life.
James Potter was ready to sacrifice his life to save Lily.
Severus Snape was ready to sacrifice James Potter’s life to save Lily.
siriusblaque
Hey, has anyone on this website considered that you can support and appreciate the true love between Lily and James and also recognize that Severus Snape lived a tragic, abused childhood and had a horrible life, and could have loved Lily anyway and was still a hero for what he did? Or that you can support what he ended up doing with his life and still not have wanted him and Lily to end up together? It’s like characters can be multifaceted and have flaws.
Kind of tired of this.
Yo, this. Thank you, Dan. Jesus.
OH. And maybe, for one second, could we also discuss how James Potter tortured Snape literally just because he could??? Like are you fucking kidding me? I am in no way surprised that Snape gave exactly zero fucking shits about James Potter being dead.
His only true friend was killed, what the hell does he care about the arrogant man who insulted him after their first meeting, and then spent the next seven years torturing him mentally AND magically, being a fucking bully?
You know, we never find out if James repented for that. People assure Harry that it was the case, but do people actually forget that all this shit did happen?
And then the one thing left for him in God’s green earth is her son, *who looks just like the man who spent their adolescent years making his life a living hell.* A lovely final twist of that knife, wouldn’t you say? Thanks, fate. Not that his behavior as an instructor was just, but I’m not surprised he behaved like he did.
James Potter was brave. So was Severus Snape. James Potter was an arrogant bully who lacked empathy. Severus Snape was a selfish racist, who was filled with hate. James was loved by his family, Snape was not. Snape served Voldemort, James did not.
James Potter gave his life to protect his wife and child. Severus Snape gave his life protecting that same child, and everything that child’s parents stood for.
Perspective.
heymarauders
Okay, are you actually being serious here? Because–
1. “James Potter tortured Snape literally just because he could” Yes, yes he did. And guess what? Snape retaliated. Snape used curses and hexes and spells of his own making, spells that nobody else would have the knowledge to counter– spells that could be fatal, like Sectumsempra. In fact, Snape was worse than James in this way– because, knowing James’ character, yes, he was arrogant and a bit of an idiot as a kid, but he never would’ve used a spell that could potentially kill someone. Yeah, James Potter bullied Snape (tortured? lmao, I thought that was what *cough* Death Eaters did), but Snape did the same back.
There is canonical evidence, in fact, that Snape did start several fights, and James was only defending himself (in some cases, at least): “Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down, could you?
2. “His only true friend was killed” The friend whom he called a ‘filthy little mudblood’? The friend whom he tried to force an acceptance of his ‘apology’ out of even after she’d said she didn’t want him in her life anymore? The friend who belonged to a group of people that he willingly tortured and killed in his adult years? Yeah, what an obvious display of sincere friendship.
3. “what the hell does he care about the arrogant man who insulted him after their first meeting, and then spent the next seven years torturing him mentally AND magically, being a fucking bully?” I don’t know where everyone’s morals lie, but most of us would consider any life worth saving, even if it was the life of some kid we didn’t get along with at school. (+ Refer to #1: yes, James insulted and bullied Snape. But Snape insulted and bullied back. The difference? One supported the denial of human rights, the torture and the killing of Muggleborns before he was 16 years old. (Three guesses whom).
4. “You know, we never find out if James repented for that.” We don’t know if he repented, in particular, for mocking Snape– but we do canonically know that he stopped hexing people for fun. “Once James had deflated his head a bit….and stopped hexing people just for the fun of it.”
5. “A lovely final twist of that knife, wouldn’t you say? Thanks, fate. Not that his behavior as an instructor was just, but I’m not surprised he behaved like he did.” Of course it wasn’t just. In fact it was disgusting and abusive and everything Lily, the woman he claimed to ‘love’, stood against. I mean, if you’re not surprised, surely you’d be able to tell that he was unfair and cruel. It’s not like it was just Harry he picked on, because he looked like his father– I seem to recall Neville, in POA, with his greatest fear being Snape, his goddamn teacher. (This being a boy who witnessed his parents being Crucio’d, by the way).
The difference between Snape and James, in essence, is that James grew up. James saved Snape’s life during their school years, when he was still a teenager– and at the age of 20-21, well into his adult years, Snape couldn’t do the same. Snape didn’t give a fuck about a one year old baby, Snape didn’t give a fuck about said baby’s father (who happened to save Snape’s life)– all Snape cared about was the woman he was infatuated with, and there lies the difference between them. “Severus Snape gave his life protecting that same child” Did he? I seem to recall that his entire motivation for him not continuing even further down the path of a murdering, ‘selfish racist’, was for Lily, not for Harry.
Snape was not a good person. Nor was he brave. Snape did some good actions (or at least, actions that had good consequences, what with helping the Order)– but not for the right reasons. Because a brave person (James) joined the Light side because pureblood supremacy was inherently wrong and discriminatory. A selfish person (Snape) joined the Light side because he wanted to protect someone he had an obsession with.
Remus Lupin fought alongside Frank and Alice Longbottom in the Order of the Phoenix. He probably knew their fate, how they were tortured into madness and forced to leave their son in the care of his grandmother.
Lupin probably guessed that Neville’s biggest fear would be similar to what he guessed Harry’s would be- Lord Voldemort, or in Neville’s case the death eater who tortured his parents - and was planning on stepping in before Neville faced the boggart so a bunch of 13 year olds wouldn’t see Bellatrix Lestrange cackling and spitting curses in their classroom.
But then Severus Snape insults Neville in front of his class, tries to shame a 13 year old boy in front of a new teacher, and Lupin is so angry. Because he had hoped that after 13 years, now they were adults, maybe Snape had gotten over himself a little and realized that he was a teacher and responsible for these kids, but apparently not. Apparently Snape was still the same petty, angry ,bitter child that he’d been in school, except now he’s bullying children half his age instead of yelling slurs at classmates.
And so Lupin sees the terror in Neville’s face and realizes that, oh my god he fears his potions teacher more than the people responsible for his parents. And Lupin is so indignant and outraged that he KNOWS he has to give this kid some leverage, some way to stand up to his tormentor, and gives that to him. Lupin stands up and tells Neville EXACTLY how to conquer his fear and, moreover, how to do it in front of all his classmates who laughed at him for being scared.
Remus Lupin starting off the school year by letting his students confront their biggest fears, so nothing else they face that year will be as scary. If you can beat your biggest fear, how bad can a test be? Or a big quidditch match? Or being rejected by the girl you ask out?
Remus Lupin truly, deeply, cared about his students. And Snape got him fired.
FCUK THIS IM SCREAMIGN
siriuslesss
FUCKING SHIT WHATS THIS MADNESS IM SO HURT
remus fucking lupin, man.
been thinking a lot lately about why so many of us are deeply attached to remus and for me, i think it’s because he was what i wanted from my teachers. he was practical; his lessons were fun and he was never cruel to students; he was supportive and gave harry extra instruction when he needed it but boundaries were mostly maintained, and you never doubted that remus was an adult, someone you could count on if you were in trouble and that would respect you and speak to you like a person but still knew you were a child and didn’t expect anything of you beyond that.
and then you add to that what fandom built, the hurt and the betrayal after sirius was gone, the marauders history that j.k. will never quite get right; the way he jokes and makes off-color innuendo that is just this side of subtle; the worn elbows on his jumpers and his abiding love of chocolate that means so much more than just recovering from a dementor encounter; the way he gets nauseous when he’s nervous and the way he was never quite able to let go of the hope that his friend did not betray him.
the books gave us this incredibly sympathetic adult that we believed would believe in us, and we took him and spun his history into this thing we knew he had to have, something quiet and aching that resulted in a man who would always be there if you needed him. it’s so important to me that remus’ history is traumatic and yet he became such a caring person, someone with so much love in his heart and who wants with every ounce of him to be good despite the darkness he didn’t ask for.
he became one of the most absurdly admirable people in canon, not just because he was kind and gentle and good, but also because he had every reason to be callous and cruel, and i think it means so much to us because we want that for ourselves.
lycanthropuns
My heart just melted. That’s exactly the reason why I’m so attached to him.