#Where Is Snape

[theflikchic]

English Major Rereads Harry Potter to See If It's "Actually Bad and I Just Have Nostalgia" As The Internet Says Pt 1: Chamber and Filch You Good?

What is going on with the frog brains.

Okay before I explode into thoughts: we GOTTA talk about the humour (I promise it's related). Because it is genuinely well-played. Some of the chapter endings are a little choppy and standard-kids book-like. But when Ron says that a teacher "would have to be really thick" and then the next chapter starts with Lockhart? Freaking hilarious. (Ron's wit is so much more hardcore than I remember. Guy takes NO prisoners and is the ACTUAL smart one, hot take).

But much of the humour is derived from nonsense. Not a bad thing, just how it is. Basically, the narrator will describe the world during jumps in time: what the characters have been up to and the locations the characters are in as well, as what non-main characters have been doing in order to give Hogwarts a more homey feel. Not always necessary but it works. And sometimes it comes back for the plot. Ex. Fred and George blowing up the salamander introduces the firecracker for Harry to use in Potions.

BUT this type of description hits- my goodness- it hits DIFFERENT as an adult because the humour which is literally just "weird description of something, move on" is just whack nonsense and leaves me with so many freaking questions. Like, "ha ha the ghosts are playing Head Hockey". As a kid, you're like "haha the ghosts are playing Head Hocket" and now I'm like "THE GHOSTS ARE PLAYING HEAD HOCKEY?? ELABORATE???" It's funny, it works, but DAMN is it weird.

And right now, I'm hung up on: Why tf is Filch cleaning up frog brains in the dungeon with the fking FLU?

Like, as a child, I just accepted this moment. That Filch is both sick and upset because a bunch of third years splattered frog brains on the dungeon ceiling and that is what is important to the plot. It's just Hogwarts being funny and quirky! The end! But NOW I'm like- like- I have SO SO many questions.

1) What the actual hell were those third years DOING? I'm assuming making potions since it was in the dungeon. So-

2) Why tf is SNAPE not doing anything about it? Man LIVES down there and doesn't he teach Potions to, like, literally EVERYONE? The book describes how there's a bunch of staff and students with colds (to set up how Ginny is looking "peaky" from being possessed, nice little foreshadowing), is he sick too?! But wouldn't he have Pepperup Potion? Why is SNAPE not fixing this?!

3) Was it a prank? Were these dumb kids just "guys being dudes" or something and blew up a bunch of frogs? Again, if so, how tf is Snape not on their cases? They're IN THE DUNGEONS.

4) Okay, new angle. Maybe they AREN'T in class and just studying downstairs. Explains how Nick and Filch knew they were third-years. I still need to know: Where is Snape.

5) So Snape is unavailable (current situation) or just not wanting to clean up (doesn't seem much like him, usually he'd make the students do it or just magic it away) and there's only Filch- who has the fucking FLU?! Where is HIS Pepperup Potion?! What happens if the man HURLS? You gonna make him clean that up too?!

This leads me to the next big question. Aside from how Filch's office apparently smells like fried fucking fish (i'm SORRY?! HOW WHY), I'm really starting to wonder...wtf is going on with Filch at ALL?

Narratively for the second book, he's important. He introduces the concept of squibs (a very complex and...strange thing that I shan't get into here), introduces Harry's really powerful ability to have empathy, adds another antagonistic adult party to the staff, and works as a background character to flesh out the environment. But STILL.

Why is this guy with no magic cleaning up magic nonsense?! Why was he hired at all?? What dirt does Dumbledore have on him? Is it just cuz Dumbledore feels bad for him? Oh, you feel bad, Dumbledore? Where's the man's Pepperup Potion?!

I don't think Filch's past being neglected is really a flaw. I think it works well with his character being this gross, mysterious, pathetic (in both sense of the word) man who is every kid's worst fear without the moral complexity (like Snape). As of right now in Chamber, he's an idea (Joker voice) while still being a character. I don't think that's bad, it is a very standard idea for kids books, especially British ones like Roald Dahl. Filch is effective as an idea.

I just didn't realize I'd be thinking so seriously of him as an adult. And that Harry Potter is...like...kind of absurdist fantasy?! Huh?!

#rereading #harry potter #harry potter analysis #argus filch #filch #severus snape #long post #i wanna do a series of this #analysis #rereading harry potter #hp #strap in #boys girls and enbies #the ultimate question #Where Is Snape #trans rights #hogwarts legacy #no this has nothing to do with it #actually does Legacy have a janitor? #if so #this is a Hogwarts problem and I'll take back my Dumbledore rant #english major #chamber of secrets

[sctumsempra]

androgynous summer snape but make them sleepy!!!

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #snape fanart #procreate #sketch #he’s always exhausted/tired/sleepy regardless of how much he sleeps 2me #the vibes of napping in the living room because it’s the coolest room in your old house are unmatched #girl help i’m projecting onto him again #reached the point of having so many thoughts about him where i end up mentally the meme of patrick star with a board nailed to his head #he deserves a full afternoon couch nap in an oversized t shirt and pajama shorts idc

[seastarconstellation]

Shenanigans in the Grimmauld Place Library

#severus snape #sirius black #harry potter fanart #This is a homage to Snirius fanfics. Like half of them have a scene where these two act like idiot babies in the library #art tag

[snucius]

I'm simply in love with this scene 🖤.

When Draco fell off his broom, Severus literally jumped out of his skin -just like the mama bear he is- but Lucius was just like "Huh, whose son is he? Definitely not mine."

#it's so them #the only thing jkr get it right #-In my world Snucius is real they fuck like rabbits and Draco is their son #the awkward elephant: that's beautiful katie #it's that tiktok audio but make it snucius #anyways #they're the best hp ship fight me #wait... why do we have a trope where severus is harry's parent (severitus) but we don't have one where he is draco's parent? #that's suspicious #that's weird #snucius #lucius malfoy #severus snape #draco malfoy #harry potter #harry potter ships #draco lucius malfoy #lucius and severus #severus and lucius #lucius x severus #severus x lucius #lucius and snape #snape and lucius #lucius x snape #snape x lucius #quidditch #pro severus snape #professor snape #pro snape #snape

[thistuesdaynight]

y'all, I'm struggling rn

I just read Snape's Worst Memory from canon for the very first time.

I-

#my world has been SHAKEN #i've only read fanfic i never finished the books! #i didn’t know they were such assholes 😭 #i mean i knew they were arrogant pricks but OH MY GOD #where's my sweet sunshine jamie boy? #where's my supportive friendship where they dont joke abt remus' lycanthropy? #dont even get me started on how they treated PETER #i'll never be the same #james potter #sirius black #lily evans #remus lupin #severus snape #marauders #snape's worst memory #peter pettigrew #tuesday talks about dead gay wizards

[aurevoiralways]

I love looking at Harry Potter merchandise from the early 2000s. Lately I've just been searching Snape on ebay and getting a kick out of scrolling through pages and pages of old toys. One thing I keep noticing is that in this early official art, Snape is often depicted as having long black nails XD I screenshotted several examples here. Honestly I kind of love it. Makes me contemplate adding that touch to the way I draw him. Though it seems kind of impractical for potion making XD But what do I know.

Makes him look very disney villain ish LOL. Very fitting of the Snape of the first few books.

#I am at the level of hyperfixation where I do this shit now apparently #fun #hes slaying though #severus snape #snape #pro snape #snape fandom #snape community #snapedom

[bythepen98]

Severus 🐍

Aside from Harry and Hermione, he is arguably the next character whose pov I read about the most (gen or ship wise). Can't help that he's too interesting of a character for me to ignore when written right.

#doodle #fanart #severus snape #professor snape #snape #snape fanart #hp fanart #harry potter fanart #i love fanon snape #mostly bc i barely remember canon him #I admit to being a bit biased #blame the movies and fics for making me adore him #headcanon where snape is more powerful than what's portrayed in the books/movies #tall dark and broody #snarky bastard who hates everyone but has the tiniest soft spot for his youngest slytherins #he loves dumbledore minerva pomfrey and some of the staff in his own snarly way too #his own found family you could say #idk i have a lot of thoughts on this man #or my image of him anyway #but am not good at articulating it right now

[ebysse]

snape celebration week 4 - the martyr

hugely inspired by the talented @ofnightsndsongs 's work 'Assassination Attempt'

“the man he hated”

#harry pov. #HHHHUUUUUU ok i confess. i fell in love with this death scene at 11 n never looked back #in a series where everyone gets avada zapped #OUR MAN GETS A PROPER ANGST SEND OFF #the aesthetics! the optics! the shrieking shack setting symbolism! djfhfhkfkhfj #hope i put that lov into this piece #also. massive fan of hiding the eyes for artistic effect…. #mine #severus snape #snape #hp fanart #snapecelebration2023 #harry potter #blood

[sneverussape]

au scenario: an experiment with a potion and a time turner goes awry and he manages to bring the younger version of himself from another timeline into his current reality. his younger version has just received his hogwarts letter and is still best friends with lily. he also has a decent relationship with his parents. but voldemort still lives in that universe, and everything else is still largely unchanged. severus can only lash out and react in anger when the younger version of himself demands answers about lily and everyone else’s whereabouts in his reality. when he finally runs out of steam, severus has nothing else to offer but the guilt that he’s never spoken out loud. to his great surprise, his younger self responds by embracing him tighter, suddenly desperate to give him comfort he didn’t know he needed.

something something to forgive yourself is the hardest task of all.

#i just wanted an au where he met himself as a kid #and this kid was just ready to both duke it out but also dish out comfort to someone who really needed it #no matter who it was #my art #snape #hp #au

[willwediejustalittle]

Intelligent eyes in a hunger-pang frame

That awful boy

#there’s gonna be a part two where he’s older #and maybe a third with both of them smashed together #I’m trying to experiment a bit #severus snape #harry potter #fanart #pro snape #hp #snape #severus snape fanart #snart #snape community #professor snape #young Severus #young Snape

[kayessbeebeebeee]

Hey, would you guys do me a favor and recommend your favourite Severitus fic but as found family trope on not bio dad Snape? Complete or Incomplete, it's all fine.

#Especially the ones where Sev meets Harry as a toddler #Severus Snape #Harry Potter #Severitus #Found Family Trope #Snapedom #Snape fic rec #Snape fics #professor snape #Dad Snape #Ao3

[sn4pe]

Louis Garrel is the WORST Snape faceclaim idk how ppl still use him 💀 its just. not severus snape at all. he just looks like some guy with a nose idk

#where’s the snape-ness ??? #severus snape #louis garrel #harry potter #faceclaim #fan cast

[kookooka2]

Harry: scared, uncomfortable, protected

#thinking of that panel from boruto where naruto awkwardly hugs kawaki #you know the one #and here we are #goblet of fire #fyah #harry james potter #harry potter fanart #harry potter series #harry potter #snape #severus snape #professor snape #coloring? #shading? #idk them personally

[sctumsempra]

going insane and i need to infodump about severus snape’s patronus being a doe for a second. i personally don’t think it changed, or lily necessarily influenced it- i think it’s always been a doe, casting the charm in dumbledore’s office was meant to show that he and lily were supposed to be viscerally aligned with each other and he knows he fucked it up and that’s why he’s spent almost two decades trying to atone for what he did. on a representative level, the doe symbolizes peace, protection, and innocence, and no three words could possibly represent severus snape more.

all he wants is peace: a peaceful life for himself, a peaceful world, a peaceful school. everything he’s ever done has been to create as much peace as possible. some of it can be considered misguided from a black and white moral standpoint, but it’s what created peace for himself. for example, aligning himself with the purist views of his housemates made him less of a target for bullying- he’s not a pure blood, and they’d know, and having powerful ambitious students on your side instead of alienating yourself from everyone means you have at least a semblance of protection from harm some of the time. he becomes a double agent for dumbledore to help bring about peace from voldemort’s reign. it might not have been peaceful for him per se, but it was still with the intention of peace in some form. he tries to give other people peace- he takes a vow with narcissa to protect her son because she’s crying and scared for him, and it gives her peace. he doesn’t throw draco under the bus to save his skin when voldemort accuses him of being the elder wands owner, giving draco and narcissa peace even if they weren’t aware. it’s either for himself, or for others.

he’s the most protective teacher at the school- would mcgonagall have thrown herself in front of three kids facing a wolfsbane-less werewolf? would flitwick take the burden of an unbreakable vow to protect draco malfoy from voldemort? would any of the DADA teachers have run towards the sound of a screaming woman? he consistently vows to protect everyone and everything he can. and, leading into his innocence, when he realizes he’s only been protecting harry for him to die, it breaks him.

he’s not necessarily innocent in that his hands are clean and he’s never done anything wrong in his life, but he’s innocent in that he’s naive. he trusted voldemort enough to be drawn into the death eaters, he trusted dumbledore enough to be manipulated into his bidding. it feels like he forgets that dumbledore screws him over constantly, dangles things in front of him and takes them away, makes crude assumptions, and has left him to fend for himself essentially their entire relationship. the times that dumbledore abandons him- physically, mentally, metaphorically- he gets very upset. like it’s new information to him that dumbledore treats him like shit. from an abuse perspective, he probably had to spend his childhood mentally erasing what his parents and home were like so he could feel safe and normal, so the constant ebb and flow/back and forth of his and dumbledore’s relationship is familiar to him. when dumbledore draws him back in with whatever method, he’s right back to behaving as dumbledore wants, doing what dumbledore wants, and believing what dumbledore believes. the times that he remembers that dumbledore doesn’t care that he let the guy who’s tried to kill him or assault go, or that dumbledore thinks he wants only lily saved because he desires her romantically or sexually, or that dumbledore has only been using harry and, by extension, him (as he’s been the one protecting harry) to play the long game of destroying voldemort are the times that he’s emotional in the books. he cries, he’s vulnerable, he raises his voice, he begs and he pleads and he defers. he doesn’t do that any other time, other than when he found harry watching his memories. he trusts and he forgives (or he forgets, or he feels safer pretending he doesn’t care what’s been done to him/how he’s been treated.) a doe is perfect for him. reducing it to something like tonk’s patronus being changed as soon as she’s in a relationship with lupin or that it’s only a doe because of lily evans completely erases his entire way of thinking and behaving and being.

also, in a self indulgent addendum, it’s a very feminine animal, and severus is consistently aligned with femininity. hermione calls the half-blood prince’s writing feminine. he wears his mother’s clothes as a child, and lupin encourages neville to dress his boggart as his grandmother. he’s quiet and docile and tries to be non-violent unless he’s pushed to his breaking point, and even then it’s screaming or crying or getting animated. he’s emotional and frequently painted as hysterical. he gets the “woman character treatment”: to the average viewer who doesn’t think about him long enough to understand otherwise, he only desires lily. the consensus is that he chases her, he only thinks about her in the context of attraction. the line about looking at her greedily is constantly understood to be lust, and not a desire for love or a desire for a peaceful relationship for once in his life (and a relationship that only ever seems to be platonic at that). he even backs off and all but disappears from her life when he’s asked to, while james (the one with the stag patronus, the classic triumphant male character) harasses her and pursues her and behaves in a way that makes his son decades later wonder if he forced lily into a relationship. he’s behaviorally aligned with what femininity in the eyes of misogyny is supposed to be. he keeps to himself, he’s quiet, he sacrifices every bit of himself for students and coworkers and superiors and expects nothing in return, he pushes his students to be the best they can. (i’d say nurtures with my whole chest, but as the narrative comes from harry, we can’t really be sure. in my view, his house won the house cup for several years in a row which was only interrupted by dumbledore awarding a fuck ton of points to his gryffindor prize pony, his classes are seen as high performing and advanced by even dolores umbridge of all people, he only tries to punish students albeit a bit violently after several attempts of getting them to understand why what they did was wrong, which seems to be pretty nurturing in comparison to what other teachers allow and do). whether he’s trans, or had been influenced more by eileen, or he was intended to be deeply complex and contradictory and that meant that he had to have these traits, or any other of the multitude of reasons for snape being an inherently feminine character, it’s there. his patronus wouldn’t be a stag, he wouldn’t be anything overbearing and he wouldn’t be anything aggressive. it doesn’t make sense with his soul and his personality and his life. the peaceful protective innocent/naive doe, however, does.

#severus snape #snape #pro snape #patronus #snape meta #severus snape meta #i’m going insane #i wrote this at work. i couldn’t sit with all of this in my head anymore #he’s the character ever #he deserves the coziest quietest little life ever. i hope he gets it in his next one #he’s so tragic and misunderstood and villainized. i might be crying a little #i could literally talk about him and all of this for hours i just figured i should stop where i was #she’s giving novel

[idling-time-princess]

THEYVE RUINED MY BOY???

#dress up time princess #time princess #dutp #tp #reuel #saga of viera #IM CRYING WHO IS THIS IMPOSTER #he looks like a sanitized elf twink where’s my Elrond-Snape knockoff I want him back #everyone at dutp is a COWARD

[slitheriyn]

Time for a festive request in honor of International Women's Day. Ordinary James and the cat!Snape congratulate Lily on the holiday, because if there is one thing these two agree on, it is their love for the red-haired beauty.

she loves the gifts equally

#severus snape #james potter #lily evans #cat au #reqs #nobody knows where he got the money #(james wallet)