In potion lesson, 8th year
Snape: everyone paired up
*hermione go with ron*
*pansy and Blaise too*
Snape: Mr pottah with mr malfoy, you will have to work together, no other choice
Draco: professor you can’t be serious
Snape: don’t disrespect me like that!
Harry: got a problem with my godfather, snivellus?
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I genuinely have no clue where this fandom gets the idea that James and Snape were rivals. The definition of rivalry is competition for the same objective or for superiority in the same field.
If James and Snape were rivals, as many like to call them, what were they competing for?
Lily?
No. Snape and Lily were best friends, years before James and Snape even met. And Lily is not a “prize to be won” which many people—including James, as we see in SWM—fail to understand.
Their studies? [I’m including this because I’ve actually seen someone try to use this argument before]
No. That had nothing to do with their feud. And James and Snape excelled in different subjects. Snape was brilliant at potions and DADA. James was highly knowledgeable in transfiguration.
Unlike Harry and Draco (who were rivals when it came to Quidditch), James and Snape had nothing you could argue they were “competing over.”
Another important thing many people seem to forget about rivalries is that it means equality. Rivals’ statuses/dynamics are meant to be balanced. Does that apply to Snape and James?
James Potter: was a rich, well-groomed, spoiled pureblood Gryffindor.
Severus Snape: was a poor, unattractive, neglected half-blood Slytherin.
It can only ever be called a rivalry when both sides are equally powerful, which cannot be said for James and Snape whatsoever.
A huge reason as to why people like to call it that is because Snape apparently “gave as good as he got” (I like how there was not a single time that phrase was ever used in the series). They use a line said by Remus—one of Snape’s bullies, funnily enough—in OoTP as evidence of Snape’s supposed fighting back:
“Snape was a special case. I mean, he never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down, could you?”
To a majority of this fandom, never losing an opportunity (opportunity: a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something, Remus never said anything about Snape succeeding all the time) to curse James—who, in the author’s words, relentlessly bullied Snape for the past six years—in their 7th year (one year) meant “giving as good as he got” and automatically cancels out everything James did to Snape for the six years before that.
Demonising Snape for wanting to get back at James after being subjected to bullying, assault, and even attempted murder (the werewolf prank) for years is complete and utter victim-blaming. If the victim fights back, it is to be called self-defence, not “bullying back” (there is no such thing anyway) or a rivalry. Acting as though in order to be a “good victim”—whatever that’s supposed to mean—you have to take the bullying lying down, and if you defend yourself, you’re reclassified as the bad guy, is genuinely disgusting to me. If a woman were to defend herself against her assaulters, would she be in the wrong, would that negate what the assaulters did to her?
The pro-bullying and victim-blaming attitude that comes from this fandom is revolting. Defending oneself does not alter the dynamic from a person with more power bullying a victim to a rivalry between two equals. When will people learn to understand that?
And besides, there is absolutely nothing to back up Remus’s claim. In fact, there is more evidence that he was lying:
Remus makes it sound like Snape would just come up to James randomly and just hex him there and then. If he did, don’t you think Lily would’ve found out? Or at the very least the Hogwarts staff? That very much suggests that it was James who initiated these fights.
The Marauders had the cloak of invisibility, a map that could track Snape and everyone at Hogwarts’ every move, and the two-way mirror. What did Snape have?
Why would James hide it from Lily? If he was truly innocent and was the one being hexed senseless, he obviously would not have hidden it from her. What would he even have to hide if that were the case? It’s clear that he knew he was in the wrong and that Lily would have never gotten with him had she known what he was doing behind her back.
Remus is canonically a liar, who lied to Harry many times, especially about Snape. Why does this fandom act like his words about the person he used to bully should be trusted?
Moving on, none of the Marauders’ reasons for bullying Snape exactly scream rivalry:
James himself stated that he bullied Snape because he exists.
Remus called it “an old prejudice” when he and Harry talked in HBP, casting the Marauders as bigots (especially when you remember that Snape was a Slytherin whom they bullied because of his existence).
Sirius (in GoF) claimed that “Snape was just this little oddball who was up to his eyes in the Dark Arts.”
In SWM, we are shown that the reason James and Sirius attacked Snape—who was minding his own business—was because Sirius was bored, meaning they had done it for fun.
Lily claimed that James walked down corridors and hexed anyone who annoyed him “just because he can.”
Sirius claimed that “we [the Marauders] were sometimes arrogant little berks.”
Tell me, does this seem like a rivalry to you?
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I don’t think it’s talked about enough that Will Byers is literally CANONICALLY in love with mike wheeler??
Will Byers CANONICALLY wants to hold Mike wheeler’s hands??
Will Byers CANONICALLY felt all the pain during the rain scene??
Will Byers CANONICALLY cries himself to sleep at night because he thinks mike won’t accept him??
Will Byers CANONICALLY feels guilty about every non-platonic thought about mike??
Will Byers CANONICALLY was projecting during the van scene??
Will Byers CANONICALLY refuses to give himself hope Mike could love him back after hearing that godawful milkvan speech??
Will Byers CANONICALLY related to every single Conan gray song?? (Jk lmao but he so would)
like it’s actually CANON??
Holy shit.
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