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severussnapemylove · 22 hours

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Haters will say that Snape is the worst person in the world for being bitchy to his class…And then say that Petunia Dursley wasn’t a bad person because she did love her sister.

……???????????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

So, one line of dialogue about how she’s sad her sister died makes up for abusing, starving and imprisoning a child?????? Keeping a child locked in a cupboard? Feeding a child scraps through a cat flap?!?!??!?!?

But Severus surviving years of abuse, being groomed by a cult, turning on said cult, protecting the children from Death Eaters and fighting for the light because of love, that means nothing to them because he *checks notes* “was a snarky meanie”.

#Snaters make no sense #pro severus snape #anti snaters #the things I read make me question peoples sanity #anti petunia dursley #harry potter universe #severus snape #petunia dursley

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that-bitch-kat3 · 3 days

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a letter to petunia

This is more Lily and Petunia nonsense that I wrote the other night. This one is a letter that Lily wrote to Petunia when the Potters went into hiding. My AO3 is here if you are interested.

Petunia,

I don't think that you will ever have to read this but I'm writing it just in case. If you are reading this it means that the worst has happened, and for that I am sorry. I'm also sorry for all the things that I have left unsaid, and for all the broken pieces of us that I will never be able to piece back together, but there are some things that I want you to know.

The first is that I love you. I know that we haven't been close in years, and likely we never will be but I need you to know that I never stopped loving you. You were there for me and protected me when we were small. I know we were forced to grow up too fast and I know that you tried to shield me from that. You shouldn't have had to do that.

I know we fought but when I think of you I remember the happy days of our childhood. The summer days were spent at the neighborhood pool, or riding our bikes by the creek. I miss those days and everything that came with them. I miss when we loved each other out in the open, when you were the other half of me, completing me in a way only a sister could.

I know I didn't do enough, and I know that I left you in that house. I'm sorry. I don't regret doing it because it led me to who I am. It led me to James and brought me Harry but I am sorry that there wasn't a way that I could find myself and not lose you.

When we were young I thought you were the most beautiful person in the world and I hope that one day you will be able to look back at our childhood and see yourself the way that I saw you. Beautiful and brave.

This war that I got myself caught up in is terrifying, and I can't let you get caught in the crossfire, but Pet I'm scared. I'm scared that I'll die and my life won't mean anything. I'm scared that I lost you for nothing. I'm scared that every terrible thing I thought about me, and you, and us is true.

I know that you pushed me away because you were scared. Scared of us being different, and scared of losing me. I know because I pushed you away for the same reasons. I forgive you for what you've said and what you've done and I hope one day you will be able to forgive me.

If you get this letter it means that I'm dead which means that James and Harry are too. I want you to know that if I'm gone and they are too you are the last piece of me. I think that you'd be sad if that happened because I would be sad if I lost you again, but I don't want you to be sad forever. I mean to be sad for a little bit, you know I always loved the attention, but don't be forever.

Go and live and be happy. Find what it is in life that makes your heart sing and do that, and when he is old enough I hope that you will tell Dudley about me. Tell him about your magical sister who you sometimes hated but who always loved you. Tell him that I loved him even though I never met him, and tell him how good you were back then. And then tell yourself that even though everything is broken you were always enough for me.

All of my love,

Lily Potter

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gender-thief2 · 1 month

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“black brothers angst this” “black brothers angst that” CAN WE PLEASEEE GET MORE PETUNIA AND LILY ANGST PLEASEEE

#the marauders #lily evans #lily evens potter #petunia dursley #petunia evens #evens sisters angst #black brothers #black brothers angst #marauders era #marauders

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swiftiereg · 5 months

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Real eyes see that Lily Evans would have treated Dudley Dursley with the same care that she would her own child.

#if she knew petunia didn’t she would cry #marauders #lily evans #petunia dursley #dudley dursley #harry potter #mary macdonald #james potter #slytherin skittles #pandora lovegood #regulus black #marylily #jegulus #jegulily #pandalily

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postnuclearel · 1 month

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LILY EVANS IS A COMPLEX CHARACTER!!!

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fanfictionroxs · 2 months

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Lily Evans has abandonment issues thanks to Petunia and Severus. Petunia is the major contributor as that's her big sister who should have been her eternal confidant and best friend, but who has been abandoning her in increments their entire lives. Petunia, whose love remains conditional and prejudiced, who loathes Lily's very being, her jealousy turning to spite and bigotry because if she cannot have magic then it is wrong, immoral, unnatural... and so is her sister by extension. And Lily, who has only ever wanted two people in her life, watches one of them abandon her for no fault of her own. And then there's Sev, and I know I said Petunia was the major contributor to Lily's abandonment issues, but Sev was her hope. He was the hope Lily carried that she was worthy of love, that she deserved better despite her own sister's screams of freak! Sev was the one who assured her of this every time she cried about Tuney, Sev understood her, Sev would never choose anyone other than Lily, right? Wrong! Sev chooses Voldemort and abandons Lily for a side that wants her own eradicated, expecting Lily to remain content with him treating her unlike 'other' muggleborns. She's the 'special' one from the group of filth he despises, she's the one who 'deserves' to live, she's expected to fall in line and watch her own people burn while the bigots rejoice. At the end of fifth year, it may have been Lily that walked away, but it was Sev who stole her hope the second he called her mudblood. For in the 'mudblood!' resounds the 'freak!', Tuney and Sev's voices blending as one, attacking Lily's very essence, destroying her hope and faith. So, Lily takes the abandonment issues and vows to take down Voldemort and kill every damn death eater that dares cross her path on the battlefield. She will have no other friends, her trust gone up in flames, her Gryffindor courage extinguished in the face of her fear of being abandoned once more. And she carries that fear and nurtures it against James, so fearful yet resigned of him leaving her (he never will and he will spend their lifetime proving it to her). Lily nurtures that fear far more than she ever gets to nurture Harry, the one love she hopes will never leave her. And yet, it is her who leaves him because there's no other way to save Harry. But her magic stays, her love stays, Lily stays. The girl who got abandoned stays for her baby boy. The girl Lily Evans, the freak, the dirty blood envoking old powerful magic, her blood taking down Voldemort in life and in death for her own creation, her baby Harry. Lily stays.

#will the petunia-lily-sev trio ever stop making me scream?#the injustice towards my babygirl lily ugh #lily evans #severus snape #petunia dursley #harry potter #james potter #marauders #marauders era #meta #snily #jily #character analysis #harry potter and the order of the phoenix #fanfictionroxs writes #voldemort #lily potter

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darklinaforever · 4 months

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When people try to claim that James has changed and that without that, Lily would never have gone out with him, when it's canon that behind Lily's back he was still going to harass Severus... Wow. What an evolution.

Also, even if Lily would have known about it, Lily is not a symbol of virtue. We're talking about the same girl having managed to find amusing what James suddenly did to Severus, levitating, head down and soap in his mouth.

And if I ever hear anyone claim that James and Severus shared a rivalry again, I'll scream. James harassed Severus with his group of friends. Many against 1 is not a rivalry.

I also once saw someone claim that Severus had permanently broken the relationship between Lily and Petunia with this branch thing, when their relationship was shit from the moment Lily was discovered to be a witch and that Petunia was jealous as hell. And also, it's canon that it was James who ruined the last possibilities of a good understanding between the two sisters...

I also love hearing that Severus was obsessed with Lily just because he loved her and couldn't stand her death. Like... Sirius and Lupin couldn't stand James' death years later and I don't see anyone saying they were obsessed ?

Beyond that, when Lily demanded it Severus left alone VS James who never took no for an answer from Lily when it came to going out with him, which he tried to do for the majority of their schooling before making her blackmailing Severus into going out with him... Who was really obsessed, James or Severus, I wonder ?

#harry potter #harry potter fandom #hp #hp fandom #severus snape #pro severus snape #snape #pro snape #professor snape #severus snape fandom #snape fandom #anti snater #anti james potter #anti marauders #anti lily evans #petunia dursley #anti petunia dursley

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jube-jube-bird · 5 months

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Harry and Mehen from Arkodian's series "What goes around (comes around)" on AO3

#harry potter #art #fanart #quick sketch #fanfiction #ao3 #slytherin #alternate universe #slytherin!harry #time travel #petunia dursley

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insuranced · 11 months

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Lily and Petunia

Sorry for the long wait, folks!

Instagram: moshiyare

(I use different names to gauge where people find my drawings)

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casasupernovas · 8 months

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so...snape fans have speculated where cokeworth is located in the england map or what it's equivalence would be. i've seen people speculate it's probably up north perhaps. maybe snape's a northerner.

however.

it's been stated multiple times that cokeworth is in the midlands. so we're thinking northampton, shropshire, stoke, birmingham.

but i prefer to think it's in the black country. mainly for these reasons:

1. cokeworth is an industrial town, even if spinner's end seems mainly abandoned, and the black country was the birth of the industrial revolution.

2. the black country was known for steelworks, glassworks and cokeworks which is maybe where the town got its title from.

3. the black country suffered from high unemployment due to the closing down of a lot of industrial sites in the 60s and 70s which ties into the idea of spinner's end being practically desolate now, and also the strain on the snape's household's economic position.

4. petunia met vernon dursley and marries him. his job was being the director of a firm that made drills. which are made of steel. steelworks anyone?

5. which leads to my last and favourite theory; petunia marrying vernon who perhaps also came from the black country then decided to name their child after something close to home. a nearby town perhaps - dudley.

#harry potter #theories #headcanon #headcannons #petunia dursley #vernon dursley #petunia evans #lily evans #severus snape #pro snape #snapedom #snape meta #cokeworth #spinners end #the black country #choosing to believe tobias's father was from birms and a peaky blinder #also choosing the snape family is from up north considering the surname has origins in lancashire and yorkshire

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that-bitch-kat3 · 5 days

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Im not usually a writer but i've had all these oneshots trapped in my head playing out again and again that i finally caved and wrote them down and now im realizing just how much Petunia and Lily angst i've got stored in my brain. it makes me think that maybe i need to call my sister.

#petunia and lily #marauders #marauders era #lily evans #petunia evans #petunia dursley #lily and petunia #siblings #sisters

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lolathestoryteller · 12 days

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All my love (April 15th prompt; Party) @jilymicrofics

I wanted to do something different today, so I tried for a letter written by Lily to Petunia sometime in August 1980…

Dear Tuney,

I‘ve been sitting here all afternoon, trying to think of how to start this letter. It’s ridiculous, considering how we used to talk endlessly, back when we were kids.

Remember our brilliant tea party the summer before I started at Hogwa boarding school? We‘d brought out our entire collection of teddies into the backyard — I recall Mum laughed so hard when she saw us there, she spilled our lemonade all over her roses!

I really miss that time lately, and I miss you. I wish we could go back to being the sisters we were then, before our differences suddenly seemed more important than our similarities.

Anyways, I hope you’re doing well? You haven’t at all responded to my last few letters, which clearly tells me that you don’t care for keeping in contact, but I just really wanted to tell you about your new nephew!

I‘ve given birth just last week, July 31st, to our little boy, Harry James Potter. It seems like a really important name somehow, all written down and official, but he’s just so tiny. I’m sure you know well enough what I mean, having a little boy yourself. I always knew babies would be small, but it’s overwhelming how little and innocent they truly are, isn’t it?

James and I haven’t stopped smiling since. Sure, it’s exhausting! But I‘ve never been happier. Harry gave me back the joy that I think I lost during the last few years, with everything that’s been going on. He truly is the bright spot lighting up our lives.

I hope you feel the same sense of joy with your little boy. I really hope you‘re happy, Tuney. No matter what, you‘ll always be my sister.

All my love,

Lily

#jily microfic #lily evans #lily potter #letters #petunia dursley #evans sisters #james potter #baby harry potter #hp #the marauders era

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insomniacirl · 2 months

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Thinking about the sibling dynamics within the Marauders era- in canon and/or fanon (and the spot that's kind of in-between yknow)- thinking about Lily and Petunia and the strain magic put on there relationship and how horrible growing up without your sister at your side must've been, the wound that was punctured between them, the death of their parents, the growing pains.

Thinking about how the Marauders were all only children, barring Sirius- who had one of the most interesting sibling dynamics with his younger brother out of all of them. The younger brother who he left behind in the house that was killing them both, the younger brother who was their mother's 'good boy', the younger brother who fell onto the opposite side of the war that Sirius was fighting so hard to keep everybody he loved alive in. Sirius was Regulus' understanding of magic, Sirius was the protector- until he wasn't. And then he was the survivor and Reg was all alone. Sirius hates himself for still loving his younger brother, because he knows what side he chose- but he died before he could understand that Reg had followed in his footsteps and sacrificed his life to save them. To save the light and the magic his older brother had held, starry eyed for so long. The peace Regulus had seen in his hands and gaped at in awe, when he was young, when his brother was the closest he knew to something holy.

And the Black sisters, their cousins- one mad, one chained to a husband she didn't want and the last an escape artist just like Sirius. The girls were just as strictly disciplined as the brothers- but they were together. Sisters have to be pulled apart by the hair, nails, hips and teeth before they stop clinging to one another- but they learnt in that house how to survive alone in very different ways. Andromeda and her escapism, holding her head underwater until she can't breathe anymore and then tearing away to find air. Bellatrix and her laughter to drown out all the other noise, the cruelty that came like second nature, the constant awareness- the way she'd flinch. Narcissa, who's safety lay in discipline, back straight, chin up, no blinking. Flight, fight and freeze.

This is such a ramble it makes like zero sense but I have so many thoughts about them- AND THE WAY THAT JAMES FALLS INTO THE BROTHER ROLE SO EASILY??? I'm insane over them, sorry- anyways.

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postnuclearel · 1 month

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always thinking about writing fanfic but never actually writing fanfic

#send help #writers block #mary mcdonald #marauders #marauders era #sirius black #harry potter #james potter #james x regulus #jegulus #regulus black #remus lupin #fanfic #lily evans #pandalily #petunia dursley #pandora lovegood

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whinlatter · 3 months

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The broken family bond between Harry and Petunia!

wow while usher was dancing his socks off at half-time you were thinking about petunia dursley née evans' malicious treatment of everyone's favourite grouchy knobbly-kneed jock... what does this say about you anon? look inwards

i feel terrible that i do not have too many thoughts about the broken family bond between harry and petunia but i DO have thoughts about what harry represents as a challenge to the nuclear family unit and its associated class connotations that petunia cares so much about. one thing i have been thinking A Lot about recently is petunia's description of snape as 'that awful boy' in ootp (which ofc, at the time, harry thinks is a reference to james), and how petunia's ideas about class and social mobility colour her view of wizards and, by extension, her resentment and contempt for harry. sooo i have talked about that instead......... ctrl + f neoliberal renders 2 results below i'm so sorry

when we meet petunia in the canon timeline, she's a parody of a tory home counties suburban housewife, striving middle class in the very thatcherite neoliberal sense, all about the house prices and the pension pot, with her perfectly maintained peach home decor and pristine garden, with a husband who has made his money through a managerial position in industrial manufacturing, who sends her son to private school and monitors the material wealth of her neighbours and associates very acutely. we know that young petunia wanted to join wizarding society and was rejected by it, and we know that adult petunia now holds wizarding world and its culture in open contempt. we particularly know that petunia hated snape, and that, other than lily, snape was the first wizard she ever really met. to young petunia's eyes, snape had all the visible markers of poverty and of being working class ("They live down Spinner’s End by the river," she told Lily, and it was evident from her tone that she considered the address a poor recommendation.') nevertheless, by virtue of being a wizard, this shabby poor-looking boy was elevated above petunia as something particularly special, and sneered at petunia as lesser than him as a result. i think this is interesting, because i think young petunia processes her rejection from magic by starting to think of magic and wizarding culture as a perverse subversion of the class system she knows and believes in, where a visibly working class person can somehow be special and worthy. (we can speculate what she would make of james potter as her son-in-law - james, while obviously wealthy, is old money posh coded - he doesn't work for a living! - aka not at all invested in the hard-work discourse, keeping-up-with-appearances that the new money suburban types that petunia strives for).

why does this matter? i just think it's very striking that petunia's complaints about harry are so often expressed less in terms of the danger of his magic, than his threat to external perceptions of her and her family, and, especially, as a challenge to their class position

petunia makes critiques of harry's messy appearance, his misbehaviour at primary school (caused by his magic), his association with the criminal (sirius black) and the shabby (the weasleys), and his refusal to respect or show any deference to vernon and the family despite their great attempts to maintain the trappings of respectability. the particular horror of harry's presence in the dursleys' life, in petunia's mind, is that his existence makes her family an alternative blended family, which compromises all that petunia holds dear in terms of the trappings of middle class respectability that puts a great deal of social capital on the nuclear family unit and no deviation from it. i don't mean to suggest petunia only perceives magic as a class threat, or that she doesn't fear harry's magic as something dangerous. her response to dudley's dementor run-in proves how much she fears what magic can do (and, ofc, she knows what happened to lily). but what's striking in DH is that petunia is still umming and ahhing, as vernon is, about whether to go into hiding. unlike movie!petunia in that deleted scene, book!petunia still isn't convinced about 'what these people are capable of'. for this reason, i think petunia has come to think of wizarding culture in terms of a fundamental challenge to the class system she understands and upholds, and to the primacy of middle class new money neoliberal suburban identity that is petunia's entire worldview. and that's really the source of her beef with harry: not his threat to her safety, but to her class identity, which is adult petunia's whole world.

#petunia’s favourite usher song is love in this club #meta #the dursleys #petunia dursley #banging on about class again i am SO sorry

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 2 months

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If Dudley turned out to have magic just like Harry, would the Dursleys treat him any differently?

Why Muggle-borns go to Hogwarts even when their parents are dubious. Why the Dursleys took in Harry (and they really couldn't say no).

The short answer: yes.

All's right with the world, they have their wonderful normal son Dudders, a freak of a nephew who they all know is blatantly a wizard and Petunia takes out all her rage on, and then the worst thing in the world happens, Petunia relives her childhood as Dudley on his eleventh birthday gets his mysterious letter.

I imagine they are in denial for the first few days, pull what they did with Harry and try to burn the letter, refuse to tell Dudley what it's about, and it gets worse when Harry gets his fucking letters but because they didn't send McGonagall to visit Harry with the letter I imagine we end up in the Hagrid situation.

Then when it's all too real, Dudley is definitely a wizard, I imagine they don't know how to react but it's with a lot of anger toward Lily, Petunia herself for having these genes/it clearly being from her side of the family, Harry for infecting their son, and even Dudley.

I imagine they try to keep Dudley from Hogwarts however this won't go well (see above links at top of the post). Dudley ends up going and is very aware of how isolated he is and quickly figures out that he is Muggle-born/dirt to the wizarding world. He tries to make up for it by bullying Harry as usual to provide a sense of normalcy, but this goes quickly sideways as he's bullying the Boy-Who-Lived who is very famous and at this point worshipped in the series.

And of course you'd get the Dursleys being weird when he goes home for the holidays and alternating between pretending he doesn't have magic at all and insisting Dudley just not talk about it or anything Harry's getting up to because they aggressively do not care.

Now, I don't know if they'd be hitting Dudley with frying pans but I don't imagine things would be good if Dudley turned out to have magic.

#harry potter #harry potter meta #harry potter headcanon #the dursleys #anti the dursleys #petunia dursley #vernon dursley #anti petunia dursley #anti vernon dursley #dudley dursley #meta #headcanon #opinion

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