It’s not even a take. I just said a bunch of stuff that is absolutely and completely true and drew some logical conclusions from those things.
First paragraph: JKR’s dad’s middle name is James. He objectively resembles her abusive ex-husband and canon James Potter (thin face, dark hair, brown or hazel eyes, circular/ovular glasses). Her dad sold the signed Harry Potter books JKR had given to him. He married his secretary not two years after his wife, JKR’s mom, died from complications with chronic illness (the same year JK Rowling was writing The Philosopher’s Stone). Lily is inspired by JKR’s mom and is the quintessential mother figure in JKR’s mind.
Second paragraph: Snape was in love with Lily. Snape was based on JKR’s chemistry teacher. It was extremely obvious to everyone who knew him (to his great chagrin, because he thought he was a nice teacher and was extremely upset that this meant that JKR probably didn’t like him very much), and she admitted it herself (see the third paragraph of the linked essay). He was the head of the science department at JKR’s school, where her mom also worked, because he hired her when no one else was likely to because she was disabled and it was the 1970s. Her mother had multiple sclerosis, and the bathrooms in the science building didn’t have disability access, so the chemistry teacher and head of the science department who had hired her, Mr. John Nettleship, had bathrooms with disability access installed into the building so that JKR’s mother wouldn’t have to walk across campus with her chronic illness that made walking difficult. All of this is stated in the last paragraph of the first section of the linked article.
Third paragraph: JKR is a natural brunette (as can be seen in pictures of her as a child and young adult, MAYBE leaning auburn on a good day depending on lighting, but that’s a reach. My hair is just as red and it’s practically black), but in all pictures of her as an adult after, she has red to dark red or bleached hair. You can see the brown roots growing out in some photos. It’s safe to say that she has an obsession with dying her hair red or blonde. Specifically dark red, like Lily in Harry Potter, who is supposed to reflect JKR’s mother, who was friends with JKR’s chemistry teacher, whom Snape is based on.
Conclusion: Everything I stated was true, apart from a few easily made logical assumptions, such as JKR dying her hair to resemble Lily, based on her mother, and a teenage J.K. Rowling being afraid that her kind, handsome, recently divorced chemistry teacher might steal her mom, his friend, from her mean and emotionally abusive dad who would later sell his own daughter’s signed books and marry his secretary in 1992, not even two full years after the death of his wife, who had only been forty-five. Classic asshole move.
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