#snape bashing

I've not written for moonwater in a while, so this was a sweet treat! thanks for your request, lovie <3

poly!moonwater x gn!reader who defends Remus' honour

CW: Snape's a wanker in this and we hand his ass to him for it [sorry to my Snape apologists out there - don't hate me!], alluding to blood but no actual mention of it? small injury to hand, Regulus sharing Sirius' DNA trait for mischief

You sucked in a pained breath through your teeth which was quickly replicated by your boyfriend in some sort of weird comradery.

“I know, I know; I’m sorry dove.” Remus murmured softly as he continued dabbing gently at the broken skin on your knuckles. 

“S’not your fault.” You mumbled petulantly as you tried to ignore the stinging of every swipe he made; the once pristine white cloth now quite decorated in red. 

Remus snorted as he eyed you pointedly before affixing his gaze back to your hands. “It sounds as if it sort of was.” 

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What kind of person gets bullied as a child and then grows up and bullies the child of his bully like that makes him way worse than James (btw I love James and I fully believe he matured and grew up and is a good person who deserved more than for Snape to tell a literal Nazi terrorist to kill him and his infant son but to leave his wife alive). Snape had way more power over the kids he taught than James did over him and what did he do with it?

He made fun of their appearance and scared them to the point that he was Neville’s boggart (which when you think about it is so awful because 1, Neville’s parents got tortured into insanity and I’m pretty sure he was there, and his boggart probably should have been Bellatrix or his uncle even, and 2, he did it because Neville was the other possible prophecy child and Snape was upset that Voldie didn’t pick him to kill when HE GAVE HIM THE PROPHECY IN THE FIRST PLACE).

He said shitty things about Harry’s dead parents and orphan-hood, was glaring at Harry literally right off the bat so don’t say it was because he got into trouble a lot, asked him questions he couldn’t possibly know, told Draco to summon a serpent during duelling club??? How irresponsible is that???

Literally lied to the minister just to get Sirius killed, which atp is ridiculous (I think Sirius was dumb as fuck, careless, possibly malicious, to tell snape where to go to find moony, but snape literally already suspected that Remus was a werewolf so idk what the fuck he thought was gonna happen if he found him during the full moon, and calling it a murder attempt is a stretch), like grow up please this man was in Azkaban for 12 years which is a hugely disproportionate punishment for anything he did do to you, and the reason he was there in the first place was literally fraudulent, which he knew and he lied anyway.

And honestly the Legilimancy lessons were fucking joke, who looks through an abused kids memories and makes fun of both the abuse and the few good memories he has?? And then he’s surprised that Harry tried to equal the playing field between them?? Snape had way more power than Harry did, and obviously it wasn’t the best thing to do to a person but yk what I’m not going to judge Harry’s actions, Snape was abusive and the victim isn’t to blame for their reactions to their abuser.

And he threw Harry across the room for seeing his memories?? Abuse. To be honest even seeing the memory about James being a bully felt like JKR trying to make shit up as fast as possible to make Snape seem more redeemable, which apparently worked for some people who think abusing kids is okay as long as you have a tragic backstory and an abusive parent. And it actually makes me really mad that he thought Harry was treated like a prince so decided to treat him like shit so he wouldn’t get any ideas about having self esteem or confidence, then found out that he was abused and then just did nothing and tbh treated him worse. And the lessons themselves were actually painful to Harry?? They definitely made his mind more vulnerable, he had more nightmares.

And let’s not forget that he joined a Nazi group that wanted to exterminate people like his best friend, called his best friend a slur, viewed Lily as an exception to the other muggleborns, and invented sectumsempura for his enemies IN SCHOOL which means the Maurauders.

And it makes me sick that he looked in a room with a crying baby whose parents just got murdered, his mom right in front of him, and a dead woman who was killed by his Nazi leader like directly because of his actions, and then he ignored the baby and went to hug the woman’s dead body. Like if I was Lily, I wouldn’t want him near either my body or my child, but if he was my only option, then he better be fucking taking care of my living son. Like she rejected him his weird obsession for her freaks me tf out.

And I get that without Snape asking for Lily to be spared, Voldemort wouldn’t have asked Lily to stand aside and the blood protection wouldn’t have been activated, but literally once good thing happening because of a tragedy he caused doesn’t make him a good person.

Anyway. Think I got it out of my system for now. Fuck Snape. :)

Hagrid was given the chance to stay in Hogwarts and be part of that society, even though he was the believed perpetrator of a cold bloded murder and having housed and extremely dangerous beast in the castle. He later got to teach despite not having completed his education. Dumbledore gave him that, and Hagrid was extremely thankful for that.

Remus Lupin was given a normal education in Hogwarts despite his condition. A condition that was extremely judged and discriminated against in the wizarding world. We never again hear of another werewolf that attended Hogwarts, he was given an special opportunity. Remus owes his education and the friends he made while in Hogwarts to Dumbledore, a man that later on would give him his first stable job in years. Not only that but he got the job while Sirius Black was on the run and many people (Snape) believed he was helping Black sneak into Hogwarts. That was an awful lot of trust that was put on Remus. Trust that Dumbledore put on Remus. He is also very thankful for that.

Snape was given the chance to not go to jail for being a death eater. He was accused infront of a jury and it's Dumbledore's words that allowed him to keep his freedom, it doesn't matter why he "turned", if Dumbledore hadn't given him a chance, Snape would have gotten caught being a death eater and would have gotten sent to Askaban to rot in a cell. And when the war ended Snape was given the chance to have a job, a stable job, despite being very abusive towards children (although he probably didn't perceive himself as such) and more importantly, despite his shady past, he had been the equivalent of a Nazi and was given the chance to teach at a school. He owed Dumbledore his freedom and his career.

As you can see, the three of them owed something important to Dumbledore, but the particularly of this debt is that it wasn't material, if he had given Remus money, he could have invested and maybe give it back, but his education is not something he can pay back, he feels like there is no other option than to be loyal to him. In the end he genuinely appreciates Dumbledore. But a lot of his loyalty lies in the fact that he feel indebted to the old man. The same thing with the other two.

regulus died at 18 fighting against everything he knew

snape lived to his thirties and spent his adulthood bullying children (among other things)