a little struggling, a lot messy

except, somehow, he did 😒

but okay. so it was not a pantsing. it was more,, a robesing? cause yknow he wasn't wearing pants? i'm nitpicking there but yeah. i like to call it a robesing (but it is basically the same)

now pantsing (robesing in wizarding world) was a VERY common thing. especially in the 70s but like,, boys did it to other boys they didn't like or even their friends like all the time when i was at school too?? it was fairly common tbh, and would've been even more common in the 70s.

and the whole 2 v 1 thing is so stupid i fear. ofc they're gonna go after him when he's not with like mulciber, avery, etc. that's what you do??? why would you purposefully outnumber yourself??? (and severus and his friends would've done/100% did the same thing to the marauders AND other students (muggleborns)).

^plus james purely did it cause sirius was bored. sirius is a mean 16 yr old that hates blood supremacists. ofc he is gonna enjoy making fun of/bullying a blood supremacist. (and same with james too)

i think the main takeaway from that scene tbh is NOT the actual pantsing or anything. it is 1. peter enjoyed watching it immensely despite not wanting to participate himself, 2. lily's hint of a smile, 3. the end of lily & severus' friendship

severus wasn't shocked (he expects sirius & james to go after him), but severus can fight back quite well (goes for his wand to attack back, would've likely succeded in attacking them back if his friends were with him & likely would've used much much darker and more harmful magic on them than they used on him)

snape created the spell in the first place. he was the one who made a spell where u can levitate robed individuals in the air by one foot.presumably knowing it would flip their robes over their head/above them etc etc. he did that. it is literally his own creation biting him in the ass (or pants, as it were)

how did james and co come to know about it? can’t see them flipping through their own textbooks, let alone snape’s, so they must have heard it somewhere, i’m gonna assume. wonder where….

and just, so many angles to it also.

- simple arrogance of the youth where u think ur invincible and ur enemies are idiots. would 10/10 look down upon the idea that the ‘other side’ would have anything worthwhile to teach u

- but even better, sirius has seen voldemort fight and is just. so unimpressed w him. like. ‘omg what is he doing that’s SO basic’ (bc of my hc about sirius and magic and intuition etc etc) and he’s just like. this man, this monster, who wields magic like a blunt hammer and not the beautifully, precisely carved dagger it must be, is not someone i can ever take seriously.

- also, this is interesting hc territory bc afaik he didn’t know about the riddle roots at the time (or maybe….and this is another hc i’ve always been obsessed with…walburga told him?) but! imagine a sirius who knows that voldemort is a half blood from a muggle orphanage. try as he might, he is still a black at heart, still walburga’s son, and just as he cannot stop himself from comparing peter to filth, and looking down his nose haughtily at those he considers inferior, so too can he not fully accept voldemort. something along the lines of…’that upstart, teach ME, the scion of house black? we’ve forgotten more magic in the last two centuries than he’s ever managed to even glance at, and you think he can teach me?’ not like, blood superiority exactly, but def some form of us vs them mentality. just, so delicious.

nobody talks about the guilt that must have consumed him as he stood wandless , knowing he had trusted the wrong hands with everything he loved

nobody talks about how his trust was turned into a weopen against him

nobody talks about how james didn’t just die protecting his family but carrying the unbearable amount of betrayal and guilt

nobody talks about the fact that maybe james potter’s last thoughts was to not only to protect his family but also thinking how could he?

which means that after he had his godson taken away from him (bc lbr that’s exactly what hagrid and dumbledore’s orders basically did) then he went into the house and saw james and lily’s dead bodies alone. no buffer in the form of harry crying out for his parents or even the godfatherly instinct of making sure his kid is alright.

he was there, with his brother and friend’s cooking body, all alone. stewing in grief and pain and rage and guilt. ALONE.