#but almost everyone else dies via spell - sad obviously but in scene it's very bloodless and quick

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people will really be like “snape got off too easily :/” and shit like that as if snape didn’t die alone and miserably without any chance for real happiness or peace. the last few years of his life were full of terror and paranoia and he didn’t even get the chance to enjoy a world without voldemort or the peace he’d been so necessary in helping achieve. 

snape’s death, out of all the ones in the book, actually managed to shock me; it’s arguably one of the goriest and most brutal death we see in the series. in the movies, it was one of the aspects of snape’s arc in the seventh book i felt they portrayed very well - the shock and violence of it made me jump in my seat. 

so hearing people go on and on about how snape didn’t get what he “deserved” is just... wild to me. what kind of ending could you have given him that would have been worse than that? i mean, he died achieving what he needed to, he was brave to the end but jesus christ is dying painfully with no one but people who hate him to witness it somehow not painful or horrific enough for you? he died in a shack, without accolades, without anyone really knowing his heroism until much, much later and you he somehow got off easily? should he have been drawn and quartered too to merit what ending you think he “deserved”? 

#severus snape #they say it bc harry forgave him and they hate that tbh #but snape legitimately gets a pretty horrifying and violent end - and no i don't think it's what he 'deserved' #that said opinions on what a character 'deserves' is extremely subjective #i have mixed feelings on snape's ending bc on one hand he did achieve what he needed and he would see that as a victory #and narratively he obviously couldn't live past the war - i very much get that #but i don't think we see another character gets killed so brutally in the books tbh #maybe quirrell??? i feel like pettigrew also had a gruesome death but i actually can't remember if we see it in scene or not #but almost everyone else dies via spell - sad obviously but in scene it's very bloodless and quick #snape's one of the few deaths we see where it's actually painful and not magical #and also i'm like... he did die looking at lily's eyes but at the same time died surrounded by kids who hated him #in the shrieking shack where he had nearly died years before... it's like what a sad ending for him