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“If you don’t support Snape and his problems, you hate the mentally ill.”
NEWS FUCKING FLASH
JUST BECAUSE HE HAD A SHITTY CHILDHOOD, JUST BECAUSE HE’S MENTALLY ILL DOES NOT FUCKING EXCUSE HIS ACTIONS.
I am mentally ill, and I ENCOURAGE people to call me out when I pull bullshit. I was bullied, I was abused as a child, and I have NEVER FUCKING called a friend a FUCKING SLUR.
I have never OBSESSED over a person when they didn’t want me around, and I would never TORTURE a child just because of my hurt fee-fees. Everyone wants to excuse him, and talk about how Snape just needed a little forgiveness.
No. What he did, despite mental illness, despite childhood trauma, was not okay. Stop fucking insisting that he is the beacon of mentally ill characters in that book.
You know who suffers from PTSD? You know who lived every day of his life, struggling because of his illness?
Remus Lupin.
Lupin wasn’t a good person despite his illness. He was a good person WITH his illness. Maybe he made some bad decisions, but ultimately, he was a good person. A good person with PTSD, a good person with an illness. He never used it as an excuse, and he never expected anyone to just accept everything he did because of it.
What mental illness does Snape have?
I’ve seen a lot of his fans argue that he has depression and/or PTSD. Don’t think JKR’s said anything about it one way or the other, though.
Dead characters who would’ve left a better legacy for the younger Albus to live up to than the person he actually got his middle name from
- Cedric Diggory
- Alastor Moody
- Dobby
- Hedwig
- Regulus Black
- Colin Creevey
- Florean Fortescue
- Rufus Scrimegour
- Lavender Brown’s rabbit Binky
- Hagrid’s flobberworms
- the lacewing flies they used to brew polyjuice in second year
Albus Lacewing Fly Potter
now fucking watch THIS and see how you think about Snape now
I read the books, so I don’t really need a recap, but just for fun let’s do a little adaption comparison.
Things that are conveniently left out of that scene compilation:
- That time when Snape was hiding out of sight in the bushes to spy on Lily and Petunia instead of happening to be nearby
- That time when Snape dropped a tree branch on Lily’s sister
- That time when Snape defended the use of Dark Magic as a laugh and redirected the conversation to someone else’s actions
- That time Snape responded to humiliating and awful but non-violent hexes by giving his opponent a bloody gash to the face
- That time when Snape called Lily a Mudblood
- That time when Snape threatened to sleep outside Lily’s place of dwelling in the castle in spite of knowing she did not want to speak with him
- That time when Lily pointed out that Snape called people Mudblood all the time
- That time when Snape was the one who conveyed the prophecy to Voldemort that put Lily in danger in the first place
- That time when Snape’s only moral objection to endangering a baby came from his attachment to the mother
- That time when Snape didn’t say ‘hide them all’ initially but told Voldemort to kill the father and infant son but spare the mother -and only asked to hide them all after Dumbledore told him he was disgusting
- That time when it was Sirius who discovered the Potters and rescued Harry from the ruin of Godric’s Hollow
- That time when Snape singled Harry out in a room full of people on the first day of class for not having extensive knowledge not required of them at that point - even deducting points for Harry not monitoring someone else’s potion
- Those times when Snape lashed out at Harry for a grudge against his father who had died ten (to sixteen, in HBP) years prior - who Harry couldn’t even remember
- All those times when Snape responded to seeing Neville Longbottom struggle in his class by calling him names like ‘idiot boy’, demeaning him, and deducting points when Hermione helped him
- That time Snape screamed at a 13-year-old Hermione and called her ‘STUPID GIRL’
- That time when Snape was unconscious for Lupin’s transformation and it was Sirius actively forcing the children away from Lupin
- That time when Snape lied to the Minister about Sirius confunding the trio - or else lied about being able to recognize it
- That time when Snape burst into hysterics after Sirius (rightfully) escaped death
- That time when Snape outed Remus as a werewolf (having been attempting to do so for quite some time) and caused him to resign from the only employment that would accept him
- That time when Snape made a teenage girl feel even more insecure about her appearance in the face of her being attacked
- That time when Snape frequently goaded Sirius for being unable to be useful to the Order in spite of actively contributing to besmirching Sirius’s name so he could not be cleared
- That time when Snape didn’t just tell Harry to get out when he was embarrassed, he also told him to never visit his office again in spite of Harry needing Occlumency lessons for his own safety
- That time when Snape gave Harry detention every Saturday for the rest of term because he wouldn’t show him his potions book
- That time when Snape broke into Harry’s dead godfather’s house to rip apart a picture from Harry’s first and only birthday with his parents
Albus Hagrid’s Flobberworms Potter: Still a better name than the one he had.
That time when 13 year old Neville feared Snape, a fucking teacher, who should have fucking nurtured him like good teachers do, when 13 year old Neville feared Snape more than the fucking woman who literally tortured his parents into insanity.
And he grew up in the magical community, remember, so he’d fucking know what Lestrange looked like, what her name was, before he could wipe his own arse.
Also, remember the time when Snape to time in class to read out a slut-shaming article in a gossip magazine to embarrass two of his students? Yeeaaah…
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Straight up nobody hugged Harry Potter from the ages of 2-11 can we discuss this
Nobody hugged Severus Snape from the ages of 0 to 38, just saying.
Nobody hugged Severus Snape probably because if someone shows Severus Snape kindness he becomes insanely obsessed with them and refuses to leave them alone and calls them racial slurs when they express that they want to be left alone and will one day walk over their husband’s dead body and cradle their lifeless form in his arms while the baby screams
Go OFF
S L A Y
G O D B L E S S
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