Last Week Tonight With John Oliver S07e30

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver — s07e30

A Summary of Harry Potter

Snape should've kept James' face of the photo as a dartboard.

This still drives me crazy to this day. Love and obsession are two different things. I will never support or love Snape because it’s not as if he’s an inherently good person. I don’t hate him either. My hatred is reserved for characters like Umbridge, Bellatrix, and Voldemort.

I don’t like Snape apologists as they refuse to see beyond his obsessive love for Lily and call him a hero. He’s not really. He even admitted that he asked Voldemort to save only Lily, not caring she had a family. When he stole the last bit of the letter, he was trying to hold onto something that wasn’t his. He ripped a photo displaying a happy family because he wanted her happiness for himself.

He gave as good as he got to James and his friends, and clearly he was plotting ways to knock James down. He was hardly innocent in their altercations, and even as an adult he continued to goad Sirius by lording his status as an essential operative over his head.

By his fifth year of school, he was hanging out with all the other little junior death eaters. He called whatever dark magic Avery did to Mary MacDonald a prank. He created torture spells if you recall in his sixth year potions book, which he just left lying in a cupboard.

While he despises the word Mudblood as an adult, it’s only because it cost him the friendship of Lily. He called other people of Muggle birth the same name prior to that incident, and in our anger we rarely say things we don’t mean. Deep down some part of him clearly thought of Lily as a Mudblood. It shouldn’t matter if he was embarrassed or not by what happened. He took out his anger on her because she was an easy target. He showed his true colours.

He’s shown to be obsessive when he told Lily he wouldn’t allow her to be with James as if she weren’t her own person. Snape also told Voldemort the prophecy and only cared afterwards when Voldemort targeted Lily. He didn’t care that he was sentencing a family to their death. He had probably already killed people for the Dark Lord.

Then he spent 17 years bullying children who weren’t in his house and specifically targeted Harry because he couldn’t get over the past. He refused to view Harry as anything other than James son even though he was his own person. Harry was actually eager to learn everything about the wizarding world, and one of the reasons he did so poorly was because he had a teacher unwilling to treat him fairly. He clearly could make potions as evidenced by his OWL results.

One of his student’s greatest fear was him if that’s not concerning then there’s something wrong. He made a student feel poorly about herself because she knew the answer. He blamed Harry after his classmate screwed up his own potion and accused him of wanting all the glory for himself. Apologists would say it was for his cover, but Snape could’ve just remained indifferent. He went out of his way to be nasty.

Even JK Rowling has said she doesn’t understand why fans love Snape so much.

Harry didn’t give his son Severus as a middle name because he liked Snape. He did it because he respected what the man had done. He would never forget how he treated him and his friends over the years. Also I think he wanted to be a better man than Snape, his father, and godfather by letting the past go rather than holding onto hatred and anger.

so im watching harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone and mcgonagall just asked harry, ron, and hermione what happened with the troll and hermione says it’s her fault but i can’t stop laughing bc of snape’s face in the background

“bitch y u lyin????”

if you ship snily (severus+lily) rather than jily (james+lily), or are debating on it, here’s a reminder that:

when lily rejected james for being mean and immature, he grew up and stopped bullying people for fun.

when lily rejected severus for using racial slurs, he joined a racist terrorist group.

Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister