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Wolf & Prince Snupin Fest 2026 is in claiming/sign-up phase!! Look at how many amazing works Remus & Severus got to enjoy in the 2025 fest! (each work is a book in the picture above by @safeplacesnupin )

Let's give them a lot more amazing, sweet, spicy, angsty Snupin works to enjoy when posting begins in July <3 Fest details/navigation here! Please reblog/share to spread the word <3

W&P 2026 Fest Timeline

Times in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

🌿Claiming closes: 27 June 11:59 PM EDT

🌿Submissions due by: 30 June 11:59 PM EDT

🌿Work reveals first day: 3 July

🌿 Work reveals last day: 24 or 31 July (depending on amount of enteries)

Non sequitur

Harry was doing his homework in Snape’s quarters, as usual, when the professor cleared his throat.

“Harry. How do you feel about adoption?”

Harry snorted. “No one would want me.”

“I do.” Snape's voice was rough, the way it got sometimes when he felt like he had to talk about emotions. It almost seemed sincere.

But that was impossible. “No, you don't. You don't even like me.”

“I've been taking care of you for years!”

“The Dursleys died mysteriously, and someone has to do it. You're my teacher.” Harry shrugged.

So this is very telling, and also very telling.

Rowling spends six books telling us that Snape is greasy nigh on every chance she gets (via Harry's POV) but only once puts it in the mouth of another character, and that character hates him.

She also fails to mention this about him in the moment where she expects us to forget that she has spent seven books riddiculing him.

There's no reference to Snape being greasy either in his memories when Harry views them, or in his death scene.

That's not accidental. You're supposed to understand that Snape is greasy only when and because Harry and Sirius say so. Snape is greasy because greasy is just Harry's mental shorthand way of calling him Snivellus. We know this because the only person who uses both of those terms is Sirius Black.

So basically, the narration calls Severus 'greasy' in the same way that teenage girls are known for calling other teenage girls 'fat'.

It's not true, they just don't like you, but they know they have touched a nerve in a culture where the only other person even on nodding terms with greasy, is Filch; the hated, vicious, jealous, squib.

Because there is no worse insult for a wizard, especially the Half-blood Head of Slytherin, than a word that puts him on the same level as someone without magic; but Harry is supposed to be the flawless paragon of virtue, hero, light wizard, and saviour- so we don't talk about that.