what about my own soul?

Here he is, my nemesis, james fleamont potter the VILLIAN — jkjk but he was hard to draw, hope you like him and his ugly little snitch and my wand design for him (also haha height chart)

I hope you like em! It was hard to design James since he isn't my favorite boy in the whole world but hes a fan favorite and he did show up in the fic so i had to draw him eventually XD also I plan on drawing the rest of his goons soon since they'll be mentioned by name in chapter 3 (WHICH IS ALMOST FINISHED)

I went in wanting to be excited. I really did. Because a black Snape opposite a white Evans/Potter duo had the potential to finally force people to confront dynamics this fandom has spent decades pretending aren’t there—classism, social exclusion, the way Snape is tolerated at best and humiliated at worst while everyone around him gets a moral pass.

But no. Of course not.

We’re already back to Hagrid parroting the same tired propaganda about how James and Lily were the “kindest, bravest people ever,” and I can feel the narrative lining up to do exactly what it has always done:

Lie. Smooth things over. Tell you not to look too closely.

Because the second you do look closely, the whole thing falls apart—especially where Lily is concerned.

This is the “kind” girl who:

tells someone he should be grateful to his abuser after nearly being killed

stands there during his public humiliation—him being stripped, mocked, dehumanized—and can’t even fully hide that she’s enjoying the spectacle

throws “my friends don’t even know why I talk to you” in his face like he’s some embarrassing charity project she’s outgrown

cuts him off permanently for one moment at his lowest while continuing to surround herself with the people who made his life hell

And I’m supposed to accept that as kindness? No, seriously—based on what?

Because what that actually looks like is someone who:

enforces moral standards selectively

aligns herself with whoever holds social power

and withdraws the second standing by him costs her anything

That’s not kindness. That’s convenience dressed up as virtue.

And what makes it worse is that the story never challenges it. Ever.

Lily is just… declared good. Untouchable. Morally correct by default. Meanwhile Snape gets dissected down to the bone for every mistake he’s ever made—context ignored, circumstances flattened, humanity optional.

So what you end up with is this completely lopsided narrative where:

she gets to hurt him, dismiss him, abandon him—and still be called “the best of us”

and he gets reduced to “the guy who loved her” like that’s the only thing about him that matters

And now this show is gearing up to do it all over again. Same framing. Same excuses. Same refusal to actually engage with what’s on the page.

No accountability. No nuance. No honesty.

Just another glossy retelling where the people who caused harm are softened into heroes, and the person who suffered it gets turned into a cautionary tale.

When she first comes to Hogwarts, Severus has to keep his eyes from stinging with tears. He's brought back to the memory of being a little boy and feeling the first stab of isolation when his best friend was put in a different house. But if Lily's daughter was a Slytherin? He'd be utterly speechless! He knows he has to do better. He wants to do better.

She doesn't look like James, the person who abused him. She looks like Lily, the one good thing in Severus' life.

His presence would be quiet but constant. He doesn't insult her like he does to most of his students. She is his favourite and brightest student.

Severus' life would be a bit warmer. He'd fight to fix things, to apologise for his past actions.