How J.K. Rowling Felt After Basing Snape On Her Chemistry Teacher (who She Quite Incorrectly Thought

How J.K. Rowling felt after basing Snape on her chemistry teacher (who she quite incorrectly thought hated her) thinking he would never see it (he was good friends with her mother, loved the series, and wrote magical beast fanfiction because he — and I have many sources for this — was a mega-nerd, autistic, multi-talented, innately wizard-ish Welshman).

I looked into this guy because I was wondering what he could have possibly done to get Snape, of all characters, based on him. The only thing I could find was that apparently J.K. Rowling took his autistic socializing as “he doesn’t like me” and that this guy was actually a really nice person. Like, unusually so. I went to read up on it again for the sake of this post and had a bunch of “Oh, that’s right; he totally did have a restroom with disabled access installed in the science department for J.K. Rowling’s T.A. mother who was ill” moments, some “Oh, that’s right; he totally was a pillar of his community who went around doing welfare checks on people with violent exes even when he was on his deathbed” moments, some, “Oh yeah, he totally was a feminist who lobbied for women’s rights on a regular basis (my uncle who likes Harry Potter joked that this is why J.K. Rowling didn’t like him)” moments, and some “Oh, yeah; he totally did used to compare his chemistry class to potion making and wizards when kids got bored and sing about it in Welsh with wizard robes on randomly throughout and at the end of the year like a freaking nerd years before Harry Potter was even conceived” moments.

TL;DR: This has been a J.K. Rowling are you fucking kidding me post and also Snape is a feminist by proxy; I don’t make the rules.

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I wouldn't say there were many examples where she actually favoured Gryffindors, but aside from that this is exactly what I think every time I see headcanons and fanarts of them

Like she didn't care back then, why would she care now?

Sorry guys

As much as I want to believe Severus and Minerva had a close friendship/deep bond- it’s just- not that believable. They might’ve been friends but really close? No.

Minerva was Severus’ transfiguration professor when he was a student. She was there when the Marauders tormented him along with Dumbledore and a couple other professors. At most she gave the Marauders detentions because we know that’s the punishment they got for their behavior, but that’s it. We also know Minerva has favorites and favors gryffindor students.

I just don’t see Severus being close nit-friends with someone that supported and basically worshiped/glorified his tormentors. Which almost if not everyone did.

So unfortunately they wouldn’t have been extremely close. Maybe close acquaintances or just friends, but definitely not really close friends. I will admit however, they made an iconic duo.