Lily Evans Critical - Tumblr Posts
The problem is, we're not blaming her for James's faults, we're pointing out the shit that she did.
Why the fuck would you believe your best friend's bully over your best friend? Just because James said that he saved Severus shouldn't mean anything to her.
"At least they don't use Black Magic!" Is bullcrap, just because they didn't use Black Magic doesn't mean that they used their wands for good reasons, they used it for malicious reasons and Lily defending them gives me the ick.
She so lacks in empathy it's not even funny, and it's not just that!
— She's thought-less.
— She's self-centred.
"I would wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus." This is so funny because she uses the fact that he's poor as an insult.
|| She constantly dismisses the fact that he's being bullied ||
Oh and about the Petunia thing, no it's not her fault that Petunia's jealous, but she literally be-friended the person who dropped a tree-branch on her sister.
Petunia talks about how Severus is blablabla... Yet she be-friends the person her sister hates.
And sure, she could hate Severus, but marry the person that your ex-best friend got SA'd by and was tormented and bullied almost everyday? Now that's a different kind of pathetic.
You can also use these two links for more... proof of how... she is just Lily.
She's a morally grey character, she can make mistakes, she can be imperfect,
But your miss perfect Lily Evans isn't that sun shining armour, instead she is the literal sun. (Same with James) [And I'm not saying you said it either]
I didn't hate her more than I hate her while writing this, because even if Severus did some terrible stuff, I don't defend his actions as an adult nor condone it—I don't call Severus an angel.
She is a major red flag for a friend, I don't recall that we should laugh at our best friends while they get SA'd infront of the school, nor stuff.
And like @ravenclawloverofseverussnape said, James literally flexed his riches to Petunia, how the hell is Petunia supposed to react? And other stuff she did.
Petunia is rotten for me because I don't think Lily would treat Dudley the same way she treats Harry, but you can't just say that she isn't a red flag, because she is.
Feel free to give feedback.
Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.
Time to go back to square one,
The problem is, is how she reacted to the "petty shit" she had no control over.
You're literally justifying her mistakes by saying "Oh, Lily had no control over it!" She still did shit, defending her best friend's perpetrators as if they didn't do stuff about it.
"Oh but Lily didn't know the degree of bullying Severus went through!" So how should she judge in the first place? If she didn't know the shit he went through?
Just because you said that she's flawed doesn't mean your sentences... Showed that you literally defended her actions.
If it was the other way around, and Lily was upside down while in her literal underwear, Severus wouldn't care if Lily called him a mudblood lmao. Severus would still help her.
And LiIy Evans didn't do shit—You call that a neutral friend? No she's a horrible friend.
She has RED FLAGS written over her and prove me wrong.
Yes, she defended Severus, but then after she'd go to Severus and be like "Well, Potter helped you and that equals that you should forgive him?" 🤨
Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.
Please check my other sharess... Sure Severus was weird and shady about the Mary thing and calling his peer mudbloods "mudbloods" but that is just the real life equivalent of a skin-of-colour person calling another skin-of-colour person the N-Word... It's bad I know and other stuff but literally Severus was not as bad as her, Severus would throw a fit if Mulciber said that Lily is a filthy mudblood (like how he literally corrected Nigellus Black's portrait in TDH), but Lily didn't throw a fit when Severus was SA'd.
Severus did two bad things during their friendship and you guys gush all over it, meanwhile Lily did... More questionable stuff.
Have a good day.
Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.
My whole 2000-word post regarding this has been deleted. I am honestly disappointed. But I'll try to rephrase it simply while putting it in detail because I'll go cry off a cliff after this.
First—
I compared them as how they were friends, therefore Severus was a better friend than her. Sure he did idiotic stuff with messed up ideologies but he wouldn't laugh at an upside down Lily in her underwear.
Second—
This is funny about the portrait because it's more likely that his prejudices dissolved after SWM, and at twenty-one, his prejudices against muggle-borns and muggles would've largely subsided, if not disappeared entirely.
Sure, maybe that portrait reminded him of Lily, but then again, he could've brushed it off with the "Well it's the know-it-all Granger."
Tell me, when he explicitly or was it implied that he hated muggles after he was twenty-one, his ideology was gone, he really changed. You tell me you're a Severus fan but you fail to acknowledge the fact that he already changed after SWM? That's pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Yes, he joined the DE, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he hates muggles and muggle-borns doesn't he? He joined it for power and respect, FYI.
Third—
Okay, at the time, he was prejudiced about muggle-borns, but you're telling me that Lily did not criticize him until she was the one being called a Mudblood?
Lily does confront Severus, but she doesn't talk to him about his messed up doctrines or the ideology of his friends. She is bothered because he is hanging out with people who are cruel to a girl.
She only dropped Severus when he called her a mudblood, that's pretty selfish, isn't it?
He used that word to demean them, but didn't Lily know? So why did she call him out about the Marauders about getting saved by Potter (I'm implying that Lily is not terrified of the idea of criticizing Severus) but never call him out on his prejudices?
I'm not going to comment anything on your third paragraph.
Sorry if I'm rude, I'm just pissed that a long ass work got me out of Tumblr and everything refreshed :/
Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.
Nah, you’re right poster. Ignore the dickheads sending you horrible messages for an opinion. Lily didn’t do anything bad. But I don’t think based on the book that she even liked him that much even as a friend, and so it is sad and fucked up that Severus was so loved-starved that she was the best that he ever experienced when she just…wasn’t that fussed about him.
Idk who you are, but I love you sm.
I have a little theory with a few people that Lily has been waiting for anything Severus would do wrong to get rid of them, and before anyone else beats me up for this, it kinda makes sense.
Lily is perfect headgirl who's quite beautiful in probably almost everyone's eyes, and her having 'Snivellus' would make her have this imperfection.
It would also make sense for her friends to be like "Oh Severus is a Slytherin and likes the Dark Arts!" Since she'd obviously have Gryffindor friends.
And he's also like that weird student in school that no one would want to be friends with.
It honestly sucks that Severus has her as the best person that happened to him, it's so fucked up because Lily's just a red flag friend (KEYWORD: friend) and everyone just bullies him.
I mean, who would laugh at their friends while they get publicly humiliated? James knew what he was doing, literally no one in the Wizarding World wore trousers. Severus would've cursed anyone who would even try that on Lily.
I just want to give Severus a hug man, he never got his happy ending (And he's so depressed in Hogwarts Legacy too) he has Lily as the best thing that happened to him, had bullies who SA'd him and attempted to murder him, and his father and mother canonically neglected him (Since Harry is abused, he'd view this as neglect since Harry's life is also fucked up, so it's also heavily implied that Severus was abused as well.)
I don't know why people hate me for an opinion, if you see Lily as a great person, then sure, but Lily is just a red flag for me, because she's not a great friend. Sure, she has flaws and imperfections, but I—an imperfect and person with flaws—would never deflect any stuff a bully did to my best friend nor would laugh at them while they get SA'd.
Severus did terrible stuff, sure, but he never failed his duty as a friend like Lily did :/
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I don't get why people are so pissed off about me calling Lily a major red flag FRIEND, Severus did terrible stuff, but my point still stands—Lily was a major red flag friend and Severus having her as the best thing that happened to her is kind of fucked up because she's just terrible... Like yes Severus did terrible stuff but I have made myself clear, Lily is a major red flag friend and I don't plan on writing essays about this. Severus did terrible stuff and I could write about it, he did terrible stuff, but it isn't about "Severus was a great person" or "Severus was a beanie cutie guy who was just a sad child" the main point is Lily is a red flag for a friend because I'd never deflect stuff that happened to my friend just to defend my crush, believe the bully of my friend, or laugh at my friend getting SA'd. I literally had to repeat myself more than a billion times about Severus even though that's not the main point of the thread in the first place. Lily was there the time he was SA'd so I do not know what you mean by "She couldn't react". Sure he called her a Mudblood for the intentions of hurting her, but he was in a vulnerable state while he said that, Lily wasn't when she was holding her laugh while he was being SA'd, deflecting his bullies's mistakes, nor believing his bully. Okay he called his peers "Mudbloods" he called Lily a "Filthy Mudblood", I do not know what else you want me to tell you because my main point was Lily was a red flag friend, unless you want me to tell you that Severus was a red flag friend as well :|
I'm just saying my opinion on stuff, I might be biased, but Lily was an actual red flag. She defended Severus from the Marauders then behind the scenes she's defending them.
(+ Severus also comforted her when she basically said, "Will being a mudblood change me?" That means that he didn't have his prejudiced thoughts before going to Slytherin, okay he was prejudiced when he was eleven but he was influenced, how could you not?)
I do not know what you're trying to prove me wrong at, but my main point was Lily was a red flag and I feel bad for Severus being love-starved that he actually loved Lily while Lily was... Lily. So if anything, I think you should prove me wrong about how Lily wasn't a terrible friend rather than Severus acting like a prejudiced pure-blood because that was clearly not the thing that I was trying to say in the first place.
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Having Lily as the "Best Thing That Happened" in your life is honestly just sad and fucked up.
I put Lily Evans critical and didn't put the normal Lily Evans tag, I don't know why this went on your fyp.
Anyways, it's not about how bad Severus or Lily is overall, it's about Lily being a terrible friend.
Broski dated her ex-best friend's tormentor, Severus called her a mudblood but that's jst crazy
Feel free to block me. (I'll do the honours for you)
Nah, you’re right poster. Ignore the dickheads sending you horrible messages for an opinion. Lily didn’t do anything bad. But I don’t think based on the book that she even liked him that much even as a friend, and so it is sad and fucked up that Severus was so loved-starved that she was the best that he ever experienced when she just…wasn’t that fussed about him.
Idk who you are, but I love you sm.
I have a little theory with a few people that Lily has been waiting for anything Severus would do wrong to get rid of them, and before anyone else beats me up for this, it kinda makes sense.
Lily is perfect headgirl who's quite beautiful in probably almost everyone's eyes, and her having 'Snivellus' would make her have this imperfection.
It would also make sense for her friends to be like "Oh Severus is a Slytherin and likes the Dark Arts!" Since she'd obviously have Gryffindor friends.
And he's also like that weird student in school that no one would want to be friends with.
It honestly sucks that Severus has her as the best person that happened to him, it's so fucked up because Lily's just a red flag friend (KEYWORD: friend) and everyone just bullies him.
I mean, who would laugh at their friends while they get publicly humiliated? James knew what he was doing, literally no one in the Wizarding World wore trousers. Severus would've cursed anyone who would even try that on Lily.
I just want to give Severus a hug man, he never got his happy ending (And he's so depressed in Hogwarts Legacy too) he has Lily as the best thing that happened to him, had bullies who SA'd him and attempted to murder him, and his father and mother canonically neglected him (Since Harry is abused, he'd view this as neglect since Harry's life is also fucked up, so it's also heavily implied that Severus was abused as well.)
I don't know why people hate me for an opinion, if you see Lily as a great person, then sure, but Lily is just a red flag for me, because she's not a great friend. Sure, she has flaws and imperfections, but I—an imperfect and person with flaws—would never deflect any stuff a bully did to my best friend nor would laugh at them while they get SA'd.
Severus did terrible stuff, sure, but he never failed his duty as a friend like Lily did :/
This is so fitting, I don't even like Nightcore and it's still going on repeat. Lily was such a bad friend.
Lily Evans is just a little girl
I was re-listening to this song (I love the nightcore version) and it made me think! This is perfect for the Snape and Lily friendship break up!!! Or it would be if Snape realized how bad a friend 'saint' Lily was.