Snape Hate - Tumblr Posts

Honestly, can I say something about the Snape War on tumblr? It needs to stop. Do a serious, genuine character analysis of Severus Snape. He’s a gray character, there’s no getting around that. Personally, I hate him and could go on for hours about why, but I’m not going to. I just want people who praise him as a hero to admit he has done horrible things without remorse and people who hate him to admit that he has done things that resulted in the saving of the wizarding world. Quit fighting over whether or not Snape was a hero. Admit that he was the grayest of gray characters. Yes, he bullied children and was obsessed with Lily(yeah, it wasn’t love. It was obsession), but he also spied for Dumbledore, despite it having potentially serious, even deadly, reprecusions(pardon me if I spelled that wrong, tumblr doesn’t do spell check and my google’s not loading.).

Snape was both an asshole and a good guy, a hero and a villain. You can love or hate him, but you need to stop and think: Is it worth it? Fighting everyone on tumblr over whether or not he’s ultimately good or bad will do no good. He’s neither, but also both.

A few reasons why Snape is horrible:

He relentlessly bullied children

He was Neville’s worst fear

He was obsessed with Lily years after she died(his patronus was exactly the same. If you think it wasn’t obsession, dm me and I will gladly hash it out with you)

He didn’t think to go to Dumbledore until Lily was in danger

A few reasons why Snape is good:

He spied for Dumbledore

Even after Dumbledore died, he did things to protect the students of Hogwarts(to an extent)

He genuinely cared about a few of the students(Draco included, and yes I think that.)

He never stopped trying to protect Harry

See? There are both good and bad things Snape did. Yes, he was an abuse victim. You could waste time pointing out that so were Harry, Sirius, and even Draco(certain emotional) were. You could also point out that abuse victims deal with their abuse differently. I’m not saying that Snape is good or bad. I’m saying he is both and also neither, if that makes any sense. So please, please quit with the Snape War and admit that he’s a well-written gray character.

THIS. THIIIIIIS!!!! People who like Snape need to stop being so goddamn delulu ! he was a bad guy! He was not some kind of misunderstood sad emo boy !!

The more I think about it the more I'm confused about Snape's so called "redemption arc".

We don't know much about his years at Hogwarts outside of the time James hanged him from his underwear and he called Lily a Mudblood, but we know that:

1. He had a disdain for Muggles ever since he was born or at least ever since he was 10 y/o bc that's when he meets Lily and Petunia and treats the latter like garbage.

2. He was friends with Mulciber and Avery- known death eaters, especially Mulciber who we know was particularly close with Baldy due to the time he came to Hogsmede with him for his job interview with dummydore.

From that we can assume that he was a witness and a participant in A Lot of hate crimes against Muggle Borns ever since he was a minor. One of which was the time Mary was the victim.

3. We know HE invented the spell James used to hang him from his panties, which must mean that he used it against others, probably muggle borns, and his DE friends must've used it as well.

4. We know he invented the spell Sectumsempra to use against his enemies?? (Sorry it's been a while since I read the books I don't remember the exact quote.) and his enemies are almost certainly the Marauders. Also maybe his dad but that's a discussion for another day.

5. We know he was one of Baldy's dearest death eaters, even tho he was a Half-Blood with no status and no connections, which means he definitely did a lot of horrific things to Muggles and Muggle borns and the members of the Order of Phoenix.

6. We know he heard Trelawney's prophesy after eavesdropping in a bar, and immediately ran to Baldy with it. He knew that by telling Baldy about the prophecy an innocent baby will be killed, and he didn't give a shit. I cannot stress enough how much that information in vital for his character. Taking a baby's life so that Baldy might give him a sit closer to him by the table. And nothing would've happened to him if he shut his mouth and didn't go to Baldy. He didn't have his life or even his status\loyalty on the line. He just sacrificed this anonymous innocent baby for kicks and giggles.

7. The only point in which he cared about his actions was when Lily's life was on the line. This wanker really didn't care that he just gave Baldy (a man who made it his life' mission to kill Lily and the likes of her) a reason to kill Lily's son and husband, who were practically her only source of joy while she fought against his people in the war. He just wanted the girl he slurred and stalked and mistreated in high-school to live with all her friends and family dead. And thought he was doing something good. I don't even know how to begin to describe how fucked up that is.

8. He went to Dummydore and asked him to save her. After he got her, her husband and her kid to be under an even worse constant death threat than they were before because of Lily's blood status and their participant in the order. And after he spent the last 3-4 years killing Lily’s friends and the people who share her blood status.

9. That was also the point in which he offered himself to be a double spy right?? Again real heroic of him to risk his life after all the shit he did because he was in love with a girl whose life he ruined. He never cared about all the shit he did and all the people he murdered and he never actually wanted to help innocent people or do good by the world or even by Lily.

10. After Baldy died for the first time and the first war ended, Harry had nobody left, and Dummydore put him with Petunia and Vernon. Snape knew better than anyone else what the Dursleys will do to Harry. He knew everything, and he didn't do shit. Not only did he not do shit, but he also made things worse for Harry by bullying and harassing him since the moment he stepped foot in the castle.

11. Extending on the last point- Snape bullied, harassed, abused, mistreated and discriminated against students at Hogwarts ever since he started teaching there, I'm not gonna start elaborating on all the times he did those things because that would take a different essay of similar length.

12. Yeah I don't really know what to add here? That's pretty much it I think.

So to conclude: am I really expected to forgive him because he loved Lily and had a hard time with James when they were 16 and he spied for Dummydore for a bit?? Being a looser in middle school and then becoming a double spy doesn’t make up for… anything. Especially since he never stopped being a terrible person.

snape? more like s-nope