James Potter was ready to sacrifice his life to save Lily.
Severus Snape was ready to sacrifice James Potter’s life to save Lily.
#james potter was ready to sacrifice his life to save lily AND harry’s lives #severus snape was ready to sacrifice james AND harry potter to save lily
Hey, has anyone on this website considered that you can support and appreciate the true love between Lily and James and also recognize that Severus Snape lived a tragic, abused childhood and had a horrible life, and could have loved Lily anyway and was still a hero for what he did? Or that you can support what he ended up doing with his life and still not have wanted him and Lily to end up together? It’s like characters can be multifaceted and have flaws.
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Yo, this. Thank you, Dan. Jesus.
OH. And maybe, for one second, could we also discuss how James Potter tortured Snape literally just because he could??? Like are you fucking kidding me? I am in no way surprised that Snape gave exactly zero fucking shits about James Potter being dead.
His only true friend was killed, what the hell does he care about the arrogant man who insulted him after their first meeting, and then spent the next seven years torturing him mentally AND magically, being a fucking bully?
You know, we never find out if James repented for that. People assure Harry that it was the case, but do people actually forget that all this shit did happen?
And then the one thing left for him in God’s green earth is her son, *who looks just like the man who spent their adolescent years making his life a living hell.* A lovely final twist of that knife, wouldn’t you say? Thanks, fate. Not that his behavior as an instructor was just, but I’m not surprised he behaved like he did.
James Potter was brave. So was Severus Snape. James Potter was an arrogant bully who lacked empathy. Severus Snape was a selfish racist, who was filled with hate. James was loved by his family, Snape was not. Snape served Voldemort, James did not.
James Potter gave his life to protect his wife and child. Severus Snape gave his life protecting that same child, and everything that child’s parents stood for.
Perspective.
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Okay, are you actually being serious here? Because–
1. “James Potter tortured Snape literally just because he could” Yes, yes he did. And guess what? Snape retaliated. Snape used curses and hexes and spells of his own making, spells that nobody else would have the knowledge to counter– spells that could be fatal, like Sectumsempra. In fact, Snape was worse than James in this way– because, knowing James’ character, yes, he was arrogant and a bit of an idiot as a kid, but he never would’ve used a spell that could potentially kill someone. Yeah, James Potter bullied Snape (tortured? lmao, I thought that was what *cough* Death Eaters did), but Snape did the same back.
There is canonical evidence, in fact, that Snape did start several fights, and James was only defending himself (in some cases, at least): “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?
2. “His only true friend was killed” The friend whom he called a ‘filthy little mudblood’? The friend whom he tried to force an acceptance of his ‘apology’ out of even after she’d said she didn’t want him in her life anymore? The friend who belonged to a group of people that he willingly tortured and killed in his adult years? Yeah, what an obvious display of sincere friendship.
3. “what the hell does he care about the arrogant man who insulted him after their first meeting, and then spent the next seven years torturing him mentally AND magically, being a fucking bully?” I don’t know where everyone’s morals lie, but most of us would consider any life worth saving, even if it was the life of some kid we didn’t get along with at school. (+ Refer to #1: yes, James insulted and bullied Snape. But Snape insulted and bullied back. The difference? One supported the denial of human rights, the torture and the killing of Muggleborns before he was 16 years old. (Three guesses whom).
4. “You know, we never find out if James repented for that.” We don’t know if he repented, in particular, for mocking Snape– but we do canonically know that he stopped hexing people for fun. “Once James had deflated his head a bit….and stopped hexing people just for the fun of it.”
5. “A lovely final twist of that knife, wouldn’t you say? Thanks, fate. Not that his behavior as an instructor was just, but I’m not surprised he behaved like he did.” Of course it wasn’t just. In fact it was disgusting and abusive and everything Lily, the woman he claimed to ‘love’, stood against. I mean, if you’re not surprised, surely you’d be able to tell that he was unfair and cruel. It’s not like it was just Harry he picked on, because he looked like his father– I seem to recall Neville, in POA, with his greatest fear being Snape, his goddamn teacher. (This being a boy who witnessed his parents being Crucio’d, by the way).
The difference between Snape and James, in essence, is that James grew up. James saved Snape’s life during their school years, when he was still a teenager– and at the age of 20-21, well into his adult years, Snape couldn’t do the same. Snape didn’t give a fuck about a one year old baby, Snape didn’t give a fuck about said baby’s father (who happened to save Snape’s life)– all Snape cared about was the woman he was infatuated with, and there lies the difference between them. “Severus Snape gave his life protecting that same child” Did he? I seem to recall that his entire motivation for him not continuing even further down the path of a murdering, ‘selfish racist’, was for Lily, not for Harry.
Snape was not a good person. Nor was he brave. Snape did some good actions (or at least, actions that had good consequences, what with helping the Order)– but not for the right reasons. Because a brave person (James) joined the Light side because pureblood supremacy was inherently wrong and discriminatory. A selfish person (Snape) joined the Light side because he wanted to protect someone he had an obsession with.
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okay, storytime. At a group sleepover, there’s this girl, the most innocent thing you’ve ever met, k? She nods off on the couch early on in the night. As everyone’s getting ready to play cards, one of my friends lean back and hears her mumbling in her sleep.
My friend motions for everyone to be quiet. The girl snuggles her blanket, smiles, and in the sweetest voice, says, “Go on, Brandon. You can jump. It’s only 30 stories.”
One time I was sleeping over at my best friend’s house and she sat up, looked me dead in the eye, and said “i am going to kill you”, then fell back onto the bed.
Needless to say, I did not sleep that night.
one time my boyfriend had been awake for over 48 hours and he was talking complete rubbish and i was laughing and he screamed ‘hOW LONG UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND THESE NOISES HOW ARE YOU MAKING THOSE NOISES’
he also couldnt find his pyjama bottoms and i told him to sleep in his boxers and he wailed that society wouldn’t accept him unless he had trousers
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