#plus it’s not in sirius’ canon character to be uwu
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Severus Snape for the ask game
Why I like them: I love Snape as a character. I feel like he’s a tragedy–not because he is a poor misunderstood bean uwu but because he’s someone with great potential, and he squandered it on a job he hated and bitterness over his miserable adolescence. And I love that, despite that, he ends up taking on a heroic role. He’s unambiguously a complete a**hole when we know him, but in the larger scheme of things, he’s on the side of the angels anyway.
Why I don’t: The number one thing that makes me deeply dislike Snape is the way he treated Neville. I always felt that way, but since I’ve become a teacher, I feel that way even more. I teach remedial math at a community college. Every day, I deal with the damage that teachers have done to students like Neville. I have kids leave my office crying, because every time they’ve met with a teacher before they’ve gotten yelled at. That’s just not okay. Neville is the kid who comes to your class every day, works hard, but is just so bad at your subject. As a teacher, you lie awake at night agonizing over how you can help this kid. You hope they find themselves a passion that doesn’t require your subject, so they can stop banging their head against it. You do not try to kill their f***ing pet.
Plus the gross creepy thing where he looks at Harry’s eyes ‘cause they look like Lily’s when he dies, that’s really icky.
Favorite episode (scene if movie): Oh this is hard. I think the Never call me coward scene in HBP is my favorite. Because at the beginning, he’s clearly trying (in his s***y way) to teach Harry something, but then he loses his temper and attacks for reals. It’s well characterized and incredibly powerful (and it wasn’t in the movies, because of course).
Favorite season/movie: Half-blood Prince generally. I like Harry’s relationship with the Prince, of course, and the way his sense of kinship with the Prince combined with his antagonism with the present Snape parallels his sympathy with young Tom Riddle.
Favorite line: Although I think it’s tragic rather than romantic, I do like “Always.”
Favorite outfit: Honestly, Alan Rickman’s Snape robes were awesome.
OTP: Snape/not wasting his life as a s***y high school teacher. Seriously, if you want an AU where Snape is happy, let him leave school behind and be an adult. There isn’t anyone in the series I particularly see him drawn to romantically (other than Lily), although it would lovely if he met a nice girl far away from Hogwarts.
Brotp: Lily, actually. Part of the tragedy of Snape’s character is that he destroyed that friendship. (I’m not one of those that thinks it was Bad all along.)
Head Canon: You know when Slughorn mentions that Harry is exceptionally talented at potions just like his mother? It’s for more or less the same reason. Snape and Lily were potions buddies in school, friends. (He could have been so good, you guys. But he was sad and lonely and bitter and he hated children.)
Unpopular opinion: I love that Harry named his kid after Snape. The Severus bit says fundamentally the same thing as the Albus bit; it’s about Harry, not really about Dumbledore or Snape. It actually rhymes pretty well with James Sirius, given that both Sirius and Snape were walking disasters with enormous wasted potential.
A wish: In a Snape Lives AU, I would like to see him stop being a s***y high school teacher, let go of the person he was as a horrible, miserable adolescent, and find a life that could make him happy.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: Please just… don’t. I do not want any more canon Snape-related content of any kind. Set the character down and back away slowly. He’s an interesting, layered character. Don’t mess it up.
5 words to best describe them: Tragic, cruel, wasted, brave (yeah, I went there), complicated.
My nickname for them: Eh. I’m really not much one for nicknames.
Note: I really want to make clear that I don’t condone pretty much any of Snape’s actual on-page behavior in the series. This is about Snape as a character, not as a person. If I met him in real life I would want to drown him.
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