An issue I am concerned about Snaters
Hello! I am a thirteen year old girl, and I am relatively new to the Harry Potter fandom! I am also a huge fan of Severus Snape. And I've decided to bring up an issue that's been bothering me since even before I joined the fandom.
So before I joined HP fandom, I had Pinterest and sometimes pictures of Snape or anti-Snape content would pop up, and being the curious person I was, I'd click on it and read whatever it was. Back then, I didn't understand why were fans of a character (whom at that time i thought Snape was a horrible person just because I read whatever the caption was without any context whatsoever), being bullied. There were Snape fans being called 'fucking idiots' and other vulgarities. Even though I disliked him, I still had NEVER knew why were they bullied.
So when I started liking said character, I wasn't a closet fan, whenever I saw a picture or caption of him I would just read it and be happy that other people liked him too. However, things didn't last long when I started getting notifications on Pinterest saying that some people were writing mean things beneath my comment.
"Are you an idiot? Did you reading the fucking books? He was racist, mean, and obsessed with Lily. You're fucking stupid"
Etc. Most of the comments were somewhat like that
So this leaves me to a question:
Are you entitled to bully Snape fans?
Sometimes, the comments that Snaters leave me will be so bad that I'll be shaking. I wonder if people know that cyber bullying is as bad as real life bullying. Your words can hurt me.
Once, it got so bad and I was on the verge of hating Snape. Just to avoid getting mean replies. It's not Okay for you to hurt me, just because I like a fictional character that you personally dislike. I have feelings. Stop thinking Snape fans idolise him, and are 'idiots'. Please, please stop. Sometimes, you're being very unreasonable. I don't enjoy seeing mean things in my inbox. If you had said something mean to someone before, go apologize. People can remember who and how you hurt them.
Us liking the Character doesn't hurt anyone. Don't like the fanart, don't look at it. Don't like the story, carry on, block the profile.
Just because I like a Character that you dislike, doesn't mean that I can't enjoy looking at their content (fanarts, fanfics). I respect your opinion, so why not respect mine?
Example: I don't like the Maruaders. I personally hate James,Peter and Jily with the passion of a thousand suns. But do I comment on their fanfics or fanarts and say things like "This is so wrong I hate this eew whoever likes it is disgusting"? No! I don't! I know that many people like them, but even if a minority of people did, I still wouldn't. Because whatever they like and however they spend their time (Be it making fanfics, fanarts or writing theories) is none of my business. However they choose to invest their time is not something I would put my nose in and shame them for. I'll just be happy that at least they're happy with what they're doing.
I'm not writing all this and making you think that all Snape fans are innocent. Not everyone is respectful when it comes to letting others share their views on their favourite character especially if it's criticism. I wrote all this to try to tell people that I have my reasons for liking Snape. Stop trying to throw fanon and canon evidence in my face, pressuring me to change my views on him. Because unless it's a agreed debate, please don't try to make me believe that Snape's a horrible Character. I believe that no fictional person needs to be a good person to be a good character. :)
A very concerned Snape fan.
Ps. Can the people I tag (or anyone) tell me what they think about whatever I wrote? This is the first time I've ever written something like this in the internet :)
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