Straight up nobody hugged Harry Potter from the ages of 2-11 can we discuss this
Nobody hugged Severus Snape from the ages of 0 to 38, just saying.
Nobody hugged Severus Snape probably because if someone shows Severus Snape kindness he becomes insanely obsessed with them and refuses to leave them alone and calls them racial slurs when they express that they want to be left alone and will one day walk over their husband’s dead body and cradle their lifeless form in his arms while the baby screams
Go OFF
S L A Y
@bigbadpandabear- YOU. I LIKE YOU.
Also, to the snape fan-
We don’t know crap about Severus’s mom. He was keen to use her name and in the summers lives in his childhood home in his thirties. His mum might very well have hugged him.
Let’s not bring that ‘woe is Snape’ headcanon up in here when we’re talking about Harry’s documented trauma.
Also- You telling me Lily never hugged Snape when they were younger? Those two were best friends for like 7 years. She was known as being warm and kind. Even for repressed brits (no offense my luvies) no hugs between good childhood friends? Even one sided? Naw.
And how did he repay her friendship? Called her slurs, joined a cult hellbent on killing people just like her, got her and her husband killed, then was emotionally and physically abusive to her child for years…..Like… nooooo
This is why I still believe that snape is:
None taken, @hillnerd; although British women were far less repressed than British men were at that time.
It is sad that the Harry Potter movies turned Hermione into a perfect, blameless creature when in reality she constantly nagged people, couldn’t handle not being the best at everything and gave Ron as much shit as Ron gave her. This is what makes her so great as a character. I hate that they left it out.
It makes me sad that the movies turned Snape into a smooth, handsome man who was wrong done by everybody and was entirely blameless when in reality he was a greasy haired, unattractive, twitchy, incredibly nasty man who brought all of his own misfortune on himself and had to work to redeem himself. This is what makes him so interesting as a character.
It makes me sad that the movies turned Ron Weasley into a piece of shit, and Ginny into a complete nonentity when in reality he wasn’t, and neither was she.
A/N: this spur of the moment story was inspired by This post and This post, by @blitheringmcgonagall and @lytefoot . It’s the first AU on my part… a Snape Lives AU.
Yes, I am writing an AU with Snape living. I know it’s strange, coming from the Dragon.
Rated T for a few choice words and magical violence. Ace safe and it will go up tomorrow on FF.net and Ao3.
“Must you go so early?”
“I have a meeting at 7 with the Directors of MLS and the International Wizarding Confederation. But I will be back in time for tea.” He leaned over and gave her a kiss on the cheek before a peck on the lips. While he departed in a swirl of green flames and purple and gold robes, Andromeda Tonks went back to the modest kitchen of her cottage west of Yeovil, in Somerset. She put a kettle on and sat down to read the news from the morning Daily Prophet, wondering what salacious gossip that dung beetle Rita Skeeter would slander her family with today.
Tap Tap Tap
Andromeda put down the morning paper and went to the window in her kitchen. There stood a magnificent owl, larger than one of the barn owls the school used. The Great Grey Owl hooted softly, looking unlike anything she had seen before. “Who could be owling this early in the morning?”
She opened the window and the owl hopped in. She plucked up some rashers from the pan, cooking up magically, and she handed over one to the owl, who tore it apart immediately. Once down the hatch, the owl hooted again.
“So they need a reply back, do they?”
Hoot Hoot
Andromeda cracked the wax seal on the parchment, recognizing immediately the signet insignia from Hogwarts. Minerva wouldn’t send her an owl if there was anything remiss with her beloved Teddy. No, this must be something else. But the school owls –
snape apologists are like “be still my beating heart his death was so tragic”
and you know what? it was. so let’s create a ‘snape doesn’t die’ au in which he doesn’t get to be the martyr.
severus snape being an asshole even after voldemort dies
severus snape freaking out when he’s told harry named his second child after him “what on EARTH is that potter brat thinking?!” (because he’ll always be a brat, even when he’s eighty)
severus snape having an aneurysm the 1st of september 2015 (he very obviously got demoted from his position as headmaster, but mcgonagall was kind enough to give him back his previous teaching post) because there’s a kid named JAMES SIRIUS POTTER and he looks JUST LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER
severus snape regretting the way he treated harry because now he realizes the poor kid wasn’t like his father at all. BUT JAMES SIRIUS IS AND HE GIVES HIM HELL. “where can we find a bezoar, mr. potter?” “i don’t know, up your arse?” “potter, detENTION!” “now i get why dad says that sometimes your classes were worse than your boss’ cruciatus curse. you know who i’m talking about, don’t you?”
severus snape being done with everything after arthur tells him “is your scar giving you trouble, as well? i can relate, i was bitten by that snake too” because he wants to say it’s not the same thing, but it is, so he just glares at him.
severus snape losing his shit when he finds out that harry’s kids (who are still very much named JAMES SIRIUS, LILY luna and albus SEVERUS) are a very close lot who like to play pranks on each other (PRANKS!! A kid called severus!!!), share interests despite their differences and love each other very much.
severus snape, alive and non-romanticised
@pastartphosopher I think I love you, this is superb
😉
Argh, yes, all canon universes can go home now, this is the best.
I want 500K of a 7 years story of the 3 Potter kids (along with the Weasley-Granger ones, too!) of the 7 years of misery of Potions Master and certified Arsehole Severys Snaaaape.
But…… there has to be one inclusion in this story….
Teddy Lupin doing a month’s detention… .for hexing the Potion’s Master, in front of everyone, their last year, when Teddy finds out who outed his Father to the Wizarding world about his furry little problem.
And takes his punishment gladly (especially after Andromeda owls Severus, who is considerably younger than her) and lets her grandson know that while she’s not happy what he did, she’s proud of him for why he did it.
#PuffPrideRideorDie
@diva-gonzo please can someone fecking write this immediately????????? You are literally a genius 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Snape: Your grandson threw a hex at me that gave me a tail, wolf ears, and fur for over a month.
Andromeda: *looks at Teddy who looks unremorseful* What a tragedy… *turns back to Snape* like your birth.
Okay. I’m gonna have to do something with this.
I’d also like everyone to spare a little thought for Professor Longbottom in this universe.
“Okay, well, does anyone who isn’t a completely rubbish teacher have any ideas?”
“Huh. Oh, quick show of hands! Who here never let death eaters run amok in the corridors? Oh, look whose hand is up. Let’s all shut up and listen to Neville, shall we?”
Like, I really want everyone to imagine the staff room with Snape and Neville.
You thought the Slytherin/Gryffindor rivalry was bad before. Snape was never McGonagall’s boggart.
“you asked us a question and she knows the answer! why ask if you don’t want to be told?” and “there’s no need to call me ‘sir’, professor” both have the same energy and both were deleted in the book to film adaptations and having both would illustrate how ron and harry have the same levels of defiant sass specifically towards snape and I guess that’s why the films were too afraid to include either line
“Yes, you too, Longbottom,” said Professor McGonagall, “There’s nothing wrong with your work except lack of confidence.” (OotP)
Yeah, and I wonder why that is?
-“But the family thought I was all Muggle for ages. My great-uncle Algie (…) pushed me off the end of Blackpool pier once, I nearly drowned (…)[When I was 8, he] came round for tea and he was hanging me out of an upstairs window by the ankles (…) and he accidentally let go. But I bounced – all the way down the garden and into the road. They were all really pleased. Gran was crying, she was so happy. And you should have seen their faces when I got in here – they thought I might not be magical enough to come, you see.” (TPS)
-“Idiot boy!” snarled Snape, clearing the spilled potion away with one wave of his wand. “I suppose you added the porcupine quills before taking the cauldron off the fire?” (TPS)
-“…Oh, and dear –” she caught Neville by the arm as he made to stand up, “after you’ve broken your first cup, would you be so kind as to select one of the blue patterned ones? I’m rather attached to the pink.” (PoA)
-“Oh, and dear –” she pointed at Neville, “you’ll be late next time, so mind you work extra hard to catch up.” (PoA)
-“Orange, Longbottom,” said Snape, ladling some up and allowing it to splash into the cauldron, so that everyone could see. “Orange. Tell me, boy, does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours? Didn’t you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one rat spleen was needed? Didn’t I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?”
Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears. (PoA)
-Snape: “Possibly no one’s warned you, Lupin, but this class contains Neville Longbottom. I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult. Not unless Miss Granger is hissing instructions in his ear.” (PoA)
-“Which person,” [Professor McGonagall] said, her voice shaking, “which abysmally foolish person wrote down this week’s passwords and left them lying around?” (PoA)
-“Longbottom, kindly do not reveal that you can’t even perform a simple Switching Spell in front of anyone from Durmstrang!” Professor McGonagall barked at the end of one particularly difficult lesson, during which Neville had accidentally transplanted his own ears onto a cactus. (GoF)
-“Apparently Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I’m really good at Herbology,” Neville said. There was a faint note of pride in his voice that Harry had rarely heard there before. (GoF)
Harry: one of them was a Slytherin and he was the bravest man I ever knew.
Ron: *in the background, rolling his eyes*. Yeah, sure- you sacrifice yourself at age seventeen, walking off into the forest to die without saying goodbye because you knew it would be too painful, ready to die without a fight to save a world that was nothing but shitty to you with no ulterior motive, but SNAPE was the bravest man you ever knew…
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