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Pride Sticker Collection by @Kyri45

Honestly, and I’m saying this as a person, not as a lawyer, okay? You’ll never hear me say this from a legal perspective. But morally, according to my own personal standards, if someone tries to kill you, why exactly are you obligated to help save their life afterward? Like… screw them, no?

If someone tried to murder me when I hadn’t really done anything to them, after years of bullying me, and then twenty years later they were suddenly in danger? I’m sorry, but I completely understand Severus. I’m a resentful bitch, I wouldn’t care. If twenty years later that person were in immediate mortal danger, honestly? I’d leave them there. Like, if I saw them fall down the stairs, crack their head open, and start bleeding out, I’d be like: “Well, damn, guess you should call another ambulance.” I’m not helping you. Too bad.

So I think it’s incredibly moralistic and self-righteous when people judge Severus specifically for that. It’s like, okay, I’d love to see you in his position. And maybe some people genuinely would act differently and say, “No, I would’ve saved them.” Fine. But me? Absolutely not.

1) sounds epic and gothic as hell;

2) is a political statement from a person with a mixed indentity;

3) is a massive "fuck you" to his abusive father.

Literally no one in that damn school took his relentless bullying seriously, but Severus was supposed to take other people's (or specifically women's, of course, because we definitely have a scene where Lily says "Mucibier tried to do something to that male character!!" and Severus takes it very seriously, don't we?) bullying like it's the end of the world, lmao. That would've just fucking ruined his mental state even more, and reinforced the idea that he deserves less rights than everyone else because of things inherent to him, since what towards him is an average Tuesday, towards other people is abuse. Not to say that when this dialogue happens, Severus was just murder attempted the other day, and it was covered by the school authorities, when trying to report abuse to them is what led him to be murder attempted – and the only thing he can do with it is to somehow accept this as fair. Severus didn't tolerate bullying from the position of a bully, he tolerated bullying from the position of a constantly dismissed bullying victim, and even that we see rather minorly, since we have an indication that Severus wasn't even present (at least to Lily's knowledge), which places him not only below marauders, but also below everyone in the SWM crowd; since we don't know what Mulcibier did, precisely, and if he even did something – since Lily only accused him of "trying to do something", not specifying he succeeded; and since Lily herself is more concerned with the dark magic aspect than with Mary being actually hurt. Maybe, Lily is also a misogynist for not empathizing with Mary because of what had happened, but just because Mulcibier supposedly had used dark magic💔💔

I would've also been fucking uncomfortable if my friend of any gender had defended me without ever addressing me directly, or helping me to get my weapon and fight back, and had asked my tormentors "what did he do to you?", as if there can be a satisfactory, justifying answer – even tho she makes it clear she already knows James is just a bully; if my tormentor wanted my friend to intervene, had been throwing glances at her, and had used it as an opportunity to flirt with her; if my friend didn't take my bullying seriously enough to not immediately believe my bully and accuse me of being ungrateful, or to not have to hold back a smile; and first and foremost, if i was verbally, physically and sexually fucking violated in front of my friend and a crowd, which is the kind of stress that often causes victims to lash out. But no, that's definitely misogynistic, not like Severus would have had even one reason to feel uncomfortable aside from Lily being a woman (tbf he might've been made fun of for it by Marauders or his housemates, which might've contributed to him feeling humiliated, since James does overall mock Severus for being helped by Lily. but of course, James intentionally framing Severus as pathetic for Lily helping him isn't a misogynist, it's Severus who needs to give a perfect reaction to half-hearted and unhelpful in the long term defence while experiencing abuse who is).