I'm Not A Snape Apologist

I'm not a Snape apologist

... because apologies are not needed.

This is exactly how I saw him while reading the books.

i love it when authors make sirius only a little bit ‘cool’, but almost in the lucius malfoy-kind of pretty way. he may be a rebel but he’s still posh and vaguely traditional. his pronunciation becomes unbearably ‘stiff upper lip’ when he’s emotional. he wears his hair long because his father and grandfather also kept it long, because it’s tradition for wizards who are of age. he wears jewellery because wizards wear jewellery, not just witches, and the look of it is great. his tattoos, if he even has them, are runes like the old magicals used to have. he only wears muggle clothes when he has to because the feeling of denim makes his entire body cringe. he smokes cigarettes but would rather smoke a pipe.

sirius black, whose rebellion is purely political, utterly ideological, and not rooted into aesthetic like what this generation is so obsessed with. he appreciates modern and muggle things because they’re interesting and fun, not lesser, but he’ll always prefer dragonhide over cow leather. his favourite leather jacket is just a transfigured outer robe for the motorbike, for the off-chance that he rides it on the roads and needs to look the part.

he can be an activist and argue for muggle and muggleborn rights while dressed like a wizard. let him be as whimsical! let him be utterly out of his depth when he needs to blend in! he can be woke AND dressed all fancy please!! ideological rebellion is a mindset NOT the way you dress omfg

I honestly forgot that Dumbledore is a Half-Blood– but yes. We just hold the Half-Blood supremacy here.

I kinda find it very funny that the most powerful wizards- Dumbledore, Voldemort, Snape, even Harry- were all half bloods

Like, the blood supremacy goes down the drain because otherwise Lucius Malfoy should have easily been more powerful than Dumbledore because purer blood

It's just very funny, imagine telling a pure-blood that Dumbledore and Voldemort, especially Voldemort, were half bloods

+ Severus also never got his happy ending

He lived his whole life of misery, and JKR not giving him the best ending makes me sick to my stomach.

I don't care what anyone says. Snape is the most tragic fucking character in the whole HP series. From the moment he was born till the day he died. HE. WAS. TRAGIC. And he was doomed from the start.

Oh, I would've gotten 1,000 screenies.

i think snape might as well T-posed he should've been silly 🤷🤷

They'll always try to make the Marauders the victim, and Severus will always be the person to first bother them like "Bullying Remus because he has Dyslexia." or "Bullying Regulus because he's gay." None of which was canon.

If they think bullying children is normal, then I'm concerned for them. "Someone had to do it." Yeah but if it was Regulus or Barty they'd kill the bully.

I agree—Those people who defend people who are CLEARLY evil are just as bad as them honestly, people fail to acknowledge that their favourites did rather too-horrible stuff.

Yes, Severus targeted and bullied children, Severus threatened Neville's toad, and was Neville's boggart, but what else are they asking him to do?

He saved the Wizarding World, risked his life everyday without anyone knowing he was a spy when he even lived, only Bellatrix suspected.

Their favourites bullied children—even worse actually. (Severus was not the only victim) and then died in a war, so what? James and Sirius died not regretting a bit of their actions to Severus.

They didn't change.

If James knew that one of his classmates were werewolves and Severus was about to get eaten alive, he would not have done anything, but it involved Sirius and Remus.

James didn't change.

Sirius died still calling Severus "Snivellus" and was immature (He stayed in Azkaban for a decade though) he didn't change.

Sirius didn't change.

Remus spread lies about Severus to defend James and Sirius' actions to Severus, constantly made up stories and lied about Severus and so did Sirius.

Remus didn't change, it didn't matter if he felt guilty, he didn't do anything.

And Peter? No comment.

When Mstans say their favourites changed, I have no idea what they are saying, because they certainly did not change.

And I have no problem with them liking the Marauders, but when they victimize them, it's like saying Harry bullied Severus, not the other way around.

Would Mstans still like the Marauders if we never met Snape? If he was killed as a student just for simply existing? If James didn’t stop Sirius from luring Snape to Remus? Or would they hate them? Hate them for torturing a little boy who was abused and neglected by his father. Hate them for bullying him just because he existed and was close to a girl James liked. Because he was “weird” because he was “different”? Practically forcing him into a cult to feel wanted… If we only saw Snape as a student before he died like the Mstans want, would they like the Marauders after that?