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Snape would be an awesome player of the game of thrones. 🙌🙌

Just saw the post on Snape antis and I couldn’t agree more. My bf and I had this conversation and although I am more pro-Snape than him, he agrees that a lot of criticism that Snape gets really isn’t necessary. It is only because of the context of good and evil within the Harry Potter universe that people believe Snape is actually the epitome of all badness.

If we were to compare Snape with a character from the A Song of Ice and Fire series (GoT), he would be seen as a complete saint. Sure, he’s arsehole but he fought to keep as many people alive as possible. This is because within GoT, we don’t think about who is good and who is evil, we think more about the appropriateness of their actions and how their relation to power enables them to do whatever and how they keep that power. I think more people who analyse Snape need to realise the nuance within the book and not scream ‘iNcEl’ every chance they get.

Totally agree! (Also sorry it took so long to reply!!) but yeah. A lot of people who hate on snape fail to grasp the concept that he is morally grey. And I hate to break it to them but loads of characters in lots of fandoms are morally grey; if every character in any fandom was either completely good or completely evil, there would be no interesting story. No plot. Nothing to really get invested in. And I reckon if an author were to create a world like that, with no moral grey area, they’d be creating a very boring world indeed.

And yeah. If Snape was in ASOIAF/GOT he’d definitely be considered a Snape compared to literally everyone in that world. People act like he’s Harry potters Ramsey Bolton and it’s just not the case.