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Severus Snape Does Not Deserve Your Pity | Tor.com
“And that’s not real love—caring for someone without considering their happiness is the exact opposite of love, in point of fact.”
absolutely this. I’m so sick of people treating Lily like she had two options in life - James or Severus. Snape yelled the equivalent of racial slurs at her and sold her family to a psychopathic mass murderer. His story and his character have value, but if you’ve boiled that value down to unrequited love then you’ve missed the point of that character.
This times ten thousand. Snape did an incredibly heroic thing, but he was a twisted, abusive creepazoid.
I think the article has a small factual error, though: he didn’t know the prophecy referred to Harry’s family at all when he passed it on to Dumbledore. He intended to have the infant child of someone he didn’t know assassinated, but when Lily and James died instead of the Longbottoms, he had Epic Sads and Turned Good. (In the movie version, add “cuddling her corpse and ignoring her injured baby to scream and cry in the wreckage of the house staring at the dead bodies of its parents until someone else showed up” to the action).
Snape fucking sucks. He’s petty and bullying and he is regularly used by Rowling to stymy Harry by using his special power, Wall Of Adult Obfuscation. He gets a sick pleasure out of denying Harry things. During occlumency lessons, this grown ass man invades Harry’s mind for hours, looking into his most painful memories, and what does the abuse and neglect he witnesses there do? It makes Snape smug. Then Harry spies on one of his painful memories, and Snape flips the fuck out and throws him out of lessons.
Oh WEH, Snapey, your hidden pain is soooo much more special and private than Harry’s! Definitely don’t treat his abuse history with respect or anything. Keep up a running commentary on the stuff you see happen, and then wonder why he doesn’t respect your boundaries!
Everyone’s like “You have to go demand he take you back for more lessons!” because obviously it’s Harry’s job to appease to a smirking sadist for the greater good.
Sometimes C/YA lit’s beloved trope of writing the adults to be mysteriously dumb and emotionally unavailable so the kids can save the world gets very frustrating for me.
The Casual Vacancy is a wonderful eye-opener for how Rowling sees people. She does not like to write nice folks being harmless. She likes jerks who try to do their best and still fuck each other over.
(Source: rammi)
if you’ll excuse me i just need to be emotional about harry potter for a second
because he’s not exceptionally powerful or anything you know? like he’s a super average student, smart enough to get by, but he doesn’t really blow anything out of the water (besides defense against the dark arts but really he’s been doing that shit since he was 11 so)
his greatest power is his ability to love, and that love is what enabled him to defeat the greatest wizard ever
voldemort was smart as shit okay like freaky smart and so so so so so powerful
but this kid, who spent the majority of his life in a dark cupboard, having hateful and belittling words flung at him from his own family for the first 10 years of life, no memory of anyone ever showing love or kindness to him
this boy had so much love in his heart that he was able to make a patronus at the age of 13, a spell that requires happiness and love to create it
this boy loved so much that he defeated the greatest dark wizard ever at the age of 17
#WHAT PART OF HE WAS RAISED IN A CUPBOARD BY PEOPLE WHO HATED HIM #AND YET HE DIDN’T GROW UP TO BE A HATEFUL AND SPITEFUL PERSON #BUT INSTEAD WAS FULLY PREPARED TO SACRIFICE HIS 17 YEAR OLD LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD #DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND
(Source: werewolfhugs)
Harry Potter is Whiny
THIS COMPLAINT USUALLY OCCURS DURING THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX WHERE HE’S A) EXPERIENCING PTSD, B) LIVING THROUGH THE TRAUMA OF WATCHING SOMEONE DIE, C) GETTING BULLIED / MOCKED BY THE ENTIRE WIZARDING WORLD, D) GETTING POSSESSED BY THE MOST EVIL WIZARD OF ALL TIME, E) LACK OF SLEEP, F) PUBERTY (WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH) G) BELIEVING FOR A WHILE HE KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND’S DAD, H) THINKING HIS MENTOR ABANDONED HIM, I) GENERALLY HAVING A SHIT TIME
ok, i will talk in non-caps for the rest of the time because if not people won’t read it, but honestly: harry james potter ≠ whiny
and i really do want you to read it, because, from the bottom of my heart
harry james potter ≠ whiny
if you’ll excuse me i just need to be emotional about harry potter for a second
because he’s not exceptionally powerful or anything you know? like he’s a super average student, smart enough to get by, but he doesn’t really blow anything out of the water (besides defense against the dark arts but really he’s been doing that shit since he was 11 so)
his greatest power is his ability to love, and that love is what enabled him to defeat the greatest wizard ever
voldemort was smart as shit okay like freaky smart and so so so so so powerful
but this kid, who spent the majority of his life in a dark cupboard, having hateful and belittling words flung at him from his own family for the first 10 years of life, no memory of anyone ever showing love or kindness to him
this boy had so much love in his heart that he was able to make a patronus at the age of 13, a spell that requires happiness and love to create it
this boy loved so much that he defeated the greatest dark wizard ever at the age of 17
#WHAT PART OF HE WAS RAISED IN A CUPBOARD BY PEOPLE WHO HATED HIM #AND YET HE DIDN’T GROW UP TO BE A HATEFUL AND SPITEFUL PERSON #BUT INSTEAD WAS FULLY PREPARED TO SACRIFICE HIS 17 YEAR OLD LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD #DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND
(Source: werewolfhugs)
you put up your defenses when you leave
you leave because you’re certain of who you want to leave
you’re putting up your armour when you leave
you leave because you’re certain of who you want to be#this relationship is so so important to me #if draco doesn’t love his mother to death in fic - and vice versa - you’re wrong #she didn’t want her baby to go away to durmstrang because it was too far away #she risked her life for him not just in the forbidden forest but potentially for making that unbreakable vow - surely voldemort’s reaction to that could have been a mess #it’s like - not even a question to her that draco is above all things #she reacts to the idea of protecting draco above all else with such - resignment seems too negative a term - just #a total sound sense of OF COURSE this is what i am doing there is no other option #and that amount of love and loyalty is staggering #and it’s not going to fall apart in the face of potential differing ideologies or queer leanings or anything else #not when she shows so clearly by the end that draco matters to her more than these idealogies really do #i’m not saying she doesn’t believe in pureblood supremacy or have those beliefs ingrained in her in a very real way #i’m just saying draco means more to her than that
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In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Cornelius Fudge tells the Prime Minister that the previous one “tried to throw him out the window.” HBP is set in 1996, the PM was John Major. Before him it was Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER TRIED TO THROW THE MINISTER OF MAGIC OUT THE WINDOW.
SHE WASN’T CALLED THE IRON LADY FOR NOTHING.
in which jkr subtly rips on margaret thatcher
Meanwhile Umbridge was JRK overtly ripping on Thatcher.
I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.
….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would aparate to Neptune to get away from her.
(Source: fallforwatson)
friendly reminder that when oliver wood addressed the gryffindor quidditch team as ‘men’, angelina johnson called him out on his sexist and misogynistic bullshit by reminding him there were women on the team too, and he listened to her without question ✿◕‿◕✿
sometimes i remember that dudley’s nickname was big d and i really don’t want to know why dudley’s friends called him that
I think it speaks to the fact that Snape was fucking mean that Neville’s worst fear was not Bellatrix Lestrange, the person who tortured his parents until they could no longer remember who they were or even Voldemort, whose name the act was committed in, but his school teacher who bullied him nine months at a time for years on end.
THANK YOU
UGH YES
“Nagini”, Voldermort and representation: things that disappointed me in HP
So yesterday when I made this post, many people wanted to know why Voldermort’a pet snake being named ‘Nagini’ was racially problematic. I was surprised that people hadn’t considered this, but then again desi issues/culture are hardly visible in mainstream media. But today I kept getting anons either professing complete shock about Naagini’s* significance, OR telling me that my interpretations were wrong. So I decided to write this meta on Naagini, the HP verse and mythological snake symbols. But first I’m gonna give some you some backstory about why Naagini bothers me so much and how Rowling seems to have missed out on some cultural context.
One of my favourite stories as a child was the one about Buddha and Mucalinda, the Snake King. Shortly after attaining enlightenment, the Buddha is travelling through a forest when he gets caught in a terrible storm. The great serpent, Mucalinda, shelters the Buddha by spreading it’s vast seven-headed hood over him, and permitting the Buddha to sit on his coils. Many statues depicting this scene are found throughout Sri Lanka. There was one at the junction close to my school that I would always stare at. The sight of the Buddha serenely meditating under the protection of a huge and powerful cobra is a striking one that captured my imagination as a child. Years later, I’m still moved on a deep, wordless level by this image.
I think it speaks to the fact that Snape was fucking horrible that Neville’s worst fear was not Bellatrix Lestrange, the person who tortured his parents until they could no longer remember who they were, or even Voldemort, whose name the act was committed in, but his school teacher who bullied him nine months at a time for years on end.
this lady has always really bugged me because i know i have seen her before and i could never figure it out
but then today i was watching harry potter and the half-blood prince and was shocked to find out that its because she is also mary elizabeth cattermole
with a husband at home
and a bit on the side
*SCREAMING*
I’m laughing so hard because this commercial is all
“ARE DARK MARKS RUINING YOUR COMPLEXION?”
and I can’t help but think of somebody going SHIT, MAN, YEAH,
IF I’D KNOWN HOW BAD IT WOULD BE FOR MY COMPLEXION I NEVER WOULD HAVE JOINED THE FUCKING DEATH EATERS
