3 cats in a coat

Again, old art repost. I'm just trying to get all of it archived on this blog.

He is outraged, of course. He denies it, curses at the idea and yet...

He decides that this attraction he feels is not his fault, it's Severus's. He must have bewitched him! Give him a love potion! Severus is a provocateur, he is convinced, always making himself so alluring.

Snape ain't done shit to him, it's just Regulus having a difficult time coping with his attraction to Severus and the ideology he was raised.

When Marauders apologists talk about how much James grew up and changed, and how Lily wouldn't have dated him otherwise, they somehow always ignore that Lily already had a canonical crush on James when he was still publicly abusing Severus.

It's mind-boggling how hypocritical they get about it too, they know they don't have an excuse for it and try to throw Severus under the bus.

"Snape joined a racist group!"

That word has a different meaning than they seem to think it does. It was discriminative and he was groomed for years into joining. Both by the hundreds of Slytherins he roomed with, and the Gryffindors around him that made him suffer and alienated him from everyone else.

"Snape bullied children!"

No? He was just a strict teacher who made angry remarks at his students. He was bad at teaching, that doesn't make him a bully.

"He outed Lupin as a werewolf!"

After Lupin almost murdered five people. Three of which were students. He had already warned those students on how deadly a werewolf could be and how to differentiate one from an actual wolf.

Yet they never want to talk about how James ganged up on, abused, and sexually assaulted a schoolmate because he "existed".

They always say that James "grew up" and "changed for the better", like, no? Their only proof is what James's best friends say when talking to James's son, which is just that he "got better", or that Lily wouldn't have dated him otherwise.

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I realized something revolting regarding the werewolf "joke" that Sirius played on Severus.

The Marauders' out-of-touch fans portray Remus as the main victim who was hurt and wronged by his "boyfriend." I'm not saying Remus wasn't a victim—because he was—but he wasn't the main one, he wasn't the one wronged or most harmed; that was Severus!

The Marauders' alienated fans have the irritating habit of turning abusers into innocent victims and transforming the victim into an abuser and persecutor who deserved all the humiliations and aggressions caused by the Marauders.

So please stop portraying the Marauders as innocent victims, when the real victim you hate and despise has been replaced by a background character whose personality has been stolen!