somebody decent should have been, long ago...

it's frustrating to me how harry completely violating snape's privacy and his trust is never addressed after 'snape's worst memory'. everytime snape used the pensieve, he took out his memories right in front of harry. he never hid it. and when he left the room, you know he never thought harry would look inside it when he left, because if he did, he would have hid it away. it doesn't take a lot for snape to think the worst of harry, but even he didn't think harry would do that. and we damn sure don't get any acknowledgement from sirius or lupin realising that snape has a very valid reason not to continue teaching him even if it was vital. as far as im concerned, there's a reason harry never tells ron or hermione, mainly hermione and it's not because snape swore him not too, and not even just because of him not wanting them to think less of his father. it's because he would have been chastisted to kingdom come because his misery at the truth is 100% his fault. didn't like what you saw? shouldn't have stuck your head in there in the first place.

i love how snape said “you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter.” my brother in christ, dumbledore literally raised you for slaughter, why in the fresh hell are you surprised —

Bc he bever pretended to care about Snape but he did pretend to care about Hatty.

This fucker on tiktok comment section talking about "well it's not James's fault that Snape chose not to wear trousers under his robes so no it wasn't sa" of course it wasn't James's fault! It was the school's fault, or the magical society's because TROUSERS WERE NOT A PART OF THE HOGWARTS UNIFORM. Guess Snape could've worn them under his robes anyway if he didn't want to be exposed in front of a crowd but I really hope no one thinks that.

Snape lurks in the shadows waiting for the perfect opportunity to startle people

guys...why did dumbledore not immediately go after snape when he was listening at the door when sybil said the prophecy? he must have known what snape was doing? i have never understood why dumbledore didn't stop him relaying the info to voldemort. or at the very least question him to find out what he had heard?

guys...why did dumbledore not immediately go after snape when he was listening at the door when sybil said the prophecy? he must have known what snape was doing? i have never understood why dumbledore didn't stop him relaying the info to voldemort. or at the very least question him to find out what he had heard?

I doubt anyone trying to make excuses for the map, would be/would have been comfortable with 4 random kids at their school making a program to track the phones of all classmates and staff, 24-7.

I can assure you that there are people who make excuses for the marauders map.

I wasn't skeptical of that. I was saying people would likely feel different about it if four guys at their own school made a device to track everyone's movements to the same degree of accuracy as the Marauders' Map, and said guys did it just to make it easier to mess with people.

I doubt anyone trying to make excuses for the map, would be/would have been comfortable with 4 random kids at their school making a program to track the phones of all classmates and staff, 24-7.

I have never met a marauders fan that actually, genuinely like the marauders, and none of them can admit to it either. Like how can you claim to love this group but whitewash them down to perfection? You can’t make up entirely different personalities for each of them and then say they’re your favorite character, it doesn’t make sense?

I think part of the reason that happens is that there is a lot of disdain for OCs, and they're held to much stricter standards. Functionally, a character who has two or three traits in canon and the rest is filled in, isn't different from an OC in any ways that matter (at least on the writer's end), but people don't give you anywhere near as much shit for it.