How DARE Snape Take Away Lupin's Chance To Teach Children About Werewolves- About HIMSELF And Make The

How DARE Snape take away Lupin's chance to teach children about werewolves- about HIMSELF and make the kids write an essay on how to KILL HIM. Like imagine Remus coming back to his office after the full moon and being greeted with a stack of papers to mark on how to kill him. And people still call Snape the hero of slytherin.

Couldn't Snape be ambidextrous?

That’s very possible! Maybe ambidextrous with a preference for his right hand? Because seeing him use his right hand twice in situations where he needs fine motor skills (and I think especially in crisis mode when he is healing Dumbledore) to me indicates at least a slight preference for his right.

I just realized why Snape was so crazy in the Shrieking Shack, third book

He thought Sirius was the reason Lily died.

Snape has always appeared collected that far in the series and it always struck me as odd that he has such a huge and bloodthirsty reaction and then calmed down towards Sirius in OOTP.

Has everyone already known this?

Heyo, I'm a snape supporter but I think I missed part of the book? I saw some quotes from anti-Snapers talking about the time he intercepted mail from Lily to Black, took the letter, ripped the photo of Lily and her family and only kept the part of Lily in it. Thoughts on the context and thoughts in general?

Deathly Hallows, Chapter 33: The Prince’s Tale

“And next, Snape was kneeling in Sirius’ old bedroom. Tears were dripping from the end of his hooked nose as he read the old letter from Lily. The second page carried only a few words: ”…could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her mind’s going, personally! Lots of love, Lily.“ Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back onto the floor, under the chest of drawers….”

——Whilst I do remember the scene happening, I don’t remember reading that Severus was crying during it.At the end of the day, it’s one of those scenes that people will take depending on their original opinion of Snape.

Anti’s will always only see Severus being creepy, being entitled to a woman who was married to his enemy, stealing something that didn’t belong to him (as the letter was to Sirius), and above all, leaving behind the portion of James and Harry on the floor as some sort of metaphor to his animosity towards the two.

But I don’t care about the anti’s. I’ve zeroed in on two things:

1. He’s crying.Severus Snape, a man who was best known for how stoic and angry he could be, has let his guard down. It’s a moment of intense vulnerability for him - imagine what would happen if someone walked in on him. I never saw it as creepy or entitled. His best friend is dead and this is the closest he has to seeing her handwriting, her affection, her laughter again and it doesn’t belong to him, but he doesn’t care, he doesn’t fucking care because it hurts so much and he’s clearly still grieving that he cannot stop the tears from forming. 

And not a single tear, but “dripping off his nose” is literally a step away from full on sobbing as he sees the face of the only person he really cared about/cared about him. It’s emotional, it’s vulnerable, it’s heartbreaking. It’s probably the last photo of Lily ever taken, the oldest she ever got to to be.

2. “Sirius’ room.”This is something I definitely didn’t notice the first time I read the passage. I had assumed Severus had taken these items shortly after Lily’s death when he was still immediately grieving. But Sirius’ room was in Grimmauld Place, a safehouse no one had access to until after Black escaped Azkaban - and there’s absolutely no way for Snape to have access to the place (let alone Sirius’ room) until after the events of OOTP.

The man never stopped grieving.Or more accurately, never learned how to grieve.

It’s obvious Severus never got over Lily’s death (as that’s his entire plight in the series), but this scene especially, makes me realize that he never knew how to deal with it. The wounds never stopped hurting not because he was obsessed, but they never stopped hurting because no one ever taught him how to take care of himself, how to accept it, how to make peace and move forward instead of just living out of spite.

It’s sad.

He’s sad.

He’s desperate for anything to make him feel remotely like Lily made him feel - my guess, is alive - that he’s willing to search Sirius’ room for it. If someone else had just taken a chance on him - really taken a chance on him (side note, this is why I really love Mentor!Snape/Severitus’ because Harry is such a kind-hearted soul who loves wholly and forgives fully, and Snape is already dedicated to keeping Harry safe, that I truly believe Harry would be such a good person for Severus to have in his life) he could have built up a life with reasons, people, things to live for, and not just a mission that kept him a step away from suicide on his worst days and numb on his best days.

That scene is Severus at his most raw, emotional, and vulnerable. It’s a scene/a side of Severus we’re not supposed to see. And it’s such a human moment, that I don’t understand how someone can read this scene and think, “What a fucking obsessive creep.” But like, some people just lack sympathy and human understanding, so whatever.

On another note, while this would have had to happened after the Order of the Phoenix was started again, it would have to be before Deathly Hallows since Moody warded the house against Snape after Dumbledore’s death. My best guess is after Sirius died (there’s no way he would let Severus wander alone) and probably after the designated place was changed to the Weasley’s, but imagine if he had just snuck away upstairs while everyone was having dinner and Molly went upstairs to round up her kids and stumbled across this.

Imagine Molly Weasley, who can’t help but fuss over everyone who clearly needs a mom, walking into Severus curled up on the floor, sobbing over a photograph.

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