Especially When You Let Him Be Morally Grey - Tumblr Posts

Snape lovers, canon text, word of God: Snape was morally grey and did both good and bad things. He is an imperfect, messy, realistic victim of trauma and abuse and he also perpetuated some of that abuse in his own way. His redemption arc is only meaningful because of the bad things and because he recognised them as such and gave up the entire rest of his life to atone for it, doing miserable things he hated, being a person he hated, never experiencing love again. He couldn’t undo the things he had participated in, but he was a necessary piece in winning the war and without him Voldemort would have won. There is nothing more he could have possibly done; if he had gone to Azkaban or killed himself he would not have been able to play that part. He did not get off without punishment because he punished himself every day by giving up his life and any chance of happiness to do it, believing he would always be hated and no one would know his true loyalties or sacrifice. He was murdered before he could even know it hadn’t all been in vain, a death that even the murderer recognised was for petty reasons. He is a jerk, he is selfless, he is mean, he is a victim, he is a former Death Eater, he is a hero. He is all of these things at once and that’s what makes his story compelling.

Snape haters: lol he was the devil and he died because he was bitten by a snake, which he deserved because he was mean to students sometimes