Lily🌷

Could someone please explain to me why in a good portion of Jegulus's POVs or fanfics, Lily is described as the worst human being to ever walk the earth?

You know, I totally understand people who don't like her and end up giving her a more assertive personality. I don't like her either, and sometimes that's reflected in the POVs I write, but I've never written a POV where Lily drugs James or tries to kill someone.

I lost a bet to a friend and had to read a terribly written fanfic, And to make matters even worse, it was the ship that I hate and despise the most: Jegulus. It was from Lily's point of view, and she was simply a huge bitch in every sense of the word.

I don't like Lily that much, actually I'm wary of her, but I never turned her into a tyrannical bitch, on the contrary, I humanized her more than even her most fanatical fans, I gave her feelings and characteristics beyond joy, sweetness and kindness, because in my view she's none of those things, but transforming a character into a great monster to sanctify another is a real dirty trick, especially when that character doesn't even have 8 complete lines of dialogue.

There are many fanfics that portray Eileen as a cold, arrogant, and petty woman who only cares about herself, who hates her own son to the point of trying to kill him, who only cares about that idiot Tobias and nothing else. But nobody researches how the mind of a woman who suffers physical and psychological abuse works. If you don't know, I'll explain: abuse doesn't just start with insults and aggression; manipulation is also a form of abuse. Before everything started, it started with Tobias's manipulation, and YES, Eileen was manipulated. She thought she would be happy with Tobias because he manipulated her into thinking that way.

Now let's go back in time. Severus was born in 1960. Do you think it wasn't common for women to be beaten back then? Well, let me remind you, back then hitting a woman was like drinking water, it was the most common thing. If Eileen left her husband, she would be looked down upon by everyone around her and couldn't even work, because nobody would want to be associated with a woman who left her husband.

Eileen most likely loved Severus with all her soul and would do anything for him, but she couldn't. She was a woman, who had a child, suffered abuse from her husband, but the society of the time wouldn't help.

If it's difficult for a woman to get rid of her abuser today, imagine that in the 60s and 70s. It was practically impossible. And another thing, men who killed their wives could be acquitted with the excuse of "cleansing their honor." Yes, many women were murdered by their husbands, but they were acquitted.