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Severus Snape has been spotted in muggle clothes at Hogwarts 😂😂😂

#severus snape #snape #harry potter #hp #adrien brody #fancast

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Having a trauma because of bullying is not a "school boy grudge"... Snape was an asshole but it doesn't invalidate his suffering and the marauders' wrongdoings.

Look, i love Remus Lupin, he’s my favourite marauder but if you think i’m going to be mad because Snape made him lose his job you are wrong. Remus insulted Snape on the marauder’s map, he humilitated him during the boggart’s lesson and never apologized for what he didn’t do when his shitty friends tormented him. Excuse me but snape had every reason to be petty or even cruel towards him. Remus was not a perfect depressed icon who eat chocolate and was nice to everyone. He was also flawed… there is no need to paint him as a cinnamonroll who never did anything wrong. It’s a disservice to his character.

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when you find an artist who draws your fave character exactly the way you like, but they only draw your NOTP 😭

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Rickman's Snape is what book Snape could have been if he'd survived the war and got a genuine chance to heal away from places that caused him trauma.

Rickman's Snape is who I imagine Snape to be in Snape survives fics.

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Can't believe Adrien Brody and Cate Blanchett exist. These two would be perfect to portray my two Ships :

Snarcissa and Snakepick.

and they have the same age gap 👍 Cate is 4 years older than Adrien...

#severus snape #snape #harry potter #snarcissa #snakepick #patricia rakepick #hphm #pro snape #snapecontent #snapedom #snape ship #AU harry potter #adrien brody #cate blanchett

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You know how I know Snape is a good person? Cuz when Dumbledore gave him that "After all this time?" bullshit, he just said "Always" instead of "Well, you're still not over your toxic little fascist boyfriend after a whole century, but go off, I guess."

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Snape literally went from "It would have served you right if Black had killed you" to "You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter" and I'm stunned because holy shit, that's an actual character arc.

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Controversial Character Tournament Round 1: Severus Snape from Harry Potter

(remember that these characters are fictional and your fellow tumblr users are real. please be normal in the notes, i will not hesitate to block if you harass people)

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Barbie movie defenders in my notes screaming "why do you expect so much out of a Barbie let people enjoy things it's not that deep" might be suffering from the ultimate case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too

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Imagine Severus as a stepdad 💀💀

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I love a soft, deeply wounded but basically good Severus Snape. But I also like the idea of him just truly being awful. Down to his bones, angry and lashing out and taking his pain out on innocent people, and then, also, contributing to saving the world. The thing about ‘evil’ is…it’s complicated and human. It’s short sighted. It’s not one thing, it’s not a whole person. It’s choices, little ones that add up. Goodness isn’t a single thing, either. Cruel people can do a right thing, or fight on the right side, and still be awful. The world is crazy like that. People are complex.

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I’m speaking my truth: adrien brody is hot

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"Snape is an incel" is the most unfair argument against him... actually. While some of the others listed above can be up to interpretation this one is the stupidest !!!

It's like seeing an ugly/fat/disabled man in the street and saying "what a disgusting incel, he certainly never got laid and would praise rape !!!" Snape never showed any sexist behavior that would be VERY concerning and would suggest a predatory mindset.

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 I’ve received an answer to a post and I’ve hesitated whether I should answer to it so I decided to make it a post.

First things first, I love Harry Potter. I love the world JKR has given us, I love many of the characters. I think Harry Potter is a tremendously imaginative and extraordinary work. Every time I say Snape is hilarious or that he’s a tremendously well-crafted character this is a very direct compliment to Rowling’s abilities as a writer. I am and will forever be grateful to Rowling for having created this world and these characters. It was a very important series in my formative years and it definitely shaped me as a reader.

I think, additionally, that Harry Potter has tremendously worthwhile messages about love, bravery, and standing up for what’s right. It’s got very strong anti-prejudice and anti-bigotry messages. If ever I have a child I would gladly give them Harry Potter to read, not just because it is very fun but because there are very important values to be learnt from it.

However, I conceive text as an interpretative exercise and part of the reason I enjoy fiction is because I can interpret it and interact with text. This involves criticism. I love Harry Potter and I think it is extraordinary, but it also has flaws, and Rowling, as a writer, is not perfect and has plenty of shortcomings.  Pointing them out is not a personal attack on JK. Rowling. Discussing what I think are the problems with the narrative or the characters, criticizing parts of the world-building or discussing what I believe are questionable creative choices (such as some aspects of Pottermore or how Rowling interacts with fandom i.e some of the things she says about her books in interviews and twitter) is my prerogative as a reader and as a fan.

I will never make personal attacks on Rowling. I don’t think Rowling is a racist or a homophobe. I think she holds problematic views on certain issues, but I am wary of turning them into a judgment of character. Rowling’s appalling views on trans issues do not erase the message of tolerance in Harry Potter. The opposite, however, is also true. Rowling choosing to support the Remain campaign commends her greatly to me, but it doesn’t erase the problematic fact that Snape was humiliated in the books by being made to dress as a woman. Rowling’s extraordinary charity work doesn’t erase the transphobia in her essay.

Overall, as I mentioned before, I am interested in Rowling as a writer and not in Rowling as a celebrity who has a twitter account. I don’t do stan culture. I don’t know JK. Rowling, and I never will. I don’t think the world is divided into good people and bad people. I’m sure that like everyone else Rowling is a person with qualities and flaws. But above all I don’t think a person is a perfect cinnamon roll just because they produce something we really like. As a rule of thumb, I would say be respectful, be considerate – and above all, understand that maybe it is not entirely healthy to deposit your mental wellbeing into “stanning” someone you don’t know.

As for Rowling as a writer: I understand how hard it is must be to deal with a phenomenon so large as Harry Potter, how hard it must be to be constantly assailed with questions about Potter even when you’re off trying to do something else. But part of my work as a reader is to criticize text. To say that Rowling has shortcomings as a writer is not a judgment of her character; it’s a judgment of her work. To say that I wished Rowling had a slightly different attitude towards fandom, that I would like her to leave the world as it is, and to have a more “this is for you to interpret attitude” is not a judgment of her character, it is an assessment of her creative choices and how that can impact fandom and the reception of her books.

In this sense, when I explore the idea that perhaps the issues of abuse and trauma weren’t properly addressed in the books, this isn’t a judgment of Rowling as a person – I don’t know Rowling and I am very wary of making the jump to “what this says about her”. In fact, I would argue that psycho analyzing the writer is a fruitless, largely useless task. It’s a judgment of Rowling as a writer and of how some parts of her characterization are not as subtle or as nuanced as I would like them to be, and how that can skew or twist the message.

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Preliminary Poll #1

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Rumplestiltskin from Once Upon A time (an american tv show). Definitely an anti-hero who had a tragic life but he's much less brave than snape imo. He did redeem himself in the last episode tho.

One of the reasons I find Snape kind of unique as a character in the stories I've read in that his particular combination of traits is... rare. By this I mean in that A) he has virtues and skills that would normally appear in a main character, a hero, hell even a teen boy power-fantasy, completely larger than life demonstrations of competence and virtue, while at the same time B) having traits that would normally be given to petty villains in order to make them look lame/pathetic, in order for the audience to laugh at the loser. (petty villains are not the same as regular villains, it's the difference between Filch and Voldemort. Voldemort is infinitely more evil but is rarely someone you pity/think is a loser the way you do Filch).

For A) he is a genius immensely skilled at magic and is hyper competent, inventing spells and potions as a teenager, is self sacrificing and brave to ridiculous extremes, over and over again, more than any other character bar the protagonist himself, is a spy that constantly makes the main villain look like a fool, is so virtuous he risks himself to save people he hates because it's the right thing to do, has tons of sarcastic one liners and witty jokes, is intimidating and smooth and has presence, I could go on. All these are traits you give to the Harry Potters of the world.

For B) he's ugly in a very visceral way, he bullies children who did nothing to him and makes them cry, he's bullied and never truly gets his revenge, in fact the girl he's in love with gets together with his bully, he's constantly humiliated (i.e. the Neville boggart scene where he's made to dress in an old woman's clothes, Dumbledore telling him that he disgusts him, the SWM scene). All this is stuff you give to the Filch's of the world.

More interesting than gray morality of whatever the fuck, which I've seen before, Snape is unique to me in that he's as much of a classical hero, larger than life teenage hyper-competence power fantasy made to idealize and try (and inevitably fail) to live up to as he is a pathetic petty tyrant loser made for the audience to laugh at and feel sorry for while hating him at the same time. It's like if you fused Harry Potter's virtues with Argus Filchs flaws. And he never really stops being either of these things throughout the story, he is cool and pathetic always. It's what makes him so incongruous to me, and part of what makes him inspire such strong emotions. People, whether fans or people that hate him, don't really know on what traits to lean into more: Is he cool or pathetic? Lame or awesome? The reality is that he's both. At both extremes at the same time, writing Snape correctly requires toeing the line between power-fantasy and masochistic self-flagellation.