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Where did this detail come from? From a mind so shriveled it can’t understand a complex character like Snape and the themes of classism and appearance-based prejudice, so it made this up to satisfy its own ugliness, I suppose???

Well, first of all, the usual thing: I don’t agree at all with bullying kids. I think he had a beef with Harry that’s super immature, and I admit that. And I think he went too far with Harry at the beginning, because later on Harry is a pain in the ass. And honestly, if I were 31, 32, 33 years old—I’m 30, by the way, so I know what I’m talking about—with all the mental baggage I carry, and I had to deal with some annoying kid constantly questioning me, disrespecting me, talking back, thinking I’m trying to kill the whole school every single year—because every single year that kid suspects me—and every single year he and his friends are spying on me and getting into my life… I mean, I’d lose it.

But saying he has a problem with Harry for no reason, when we all know he has a problem with him because Harry’s father was his bully—and not just that, but because Harry is like his bully—it’s absurd. It’s like: you’ve been psychologically and emotionally crushed for years, publicly humiliated for years, and then when you’re 30, your bully shows up in front of you with the exact same face he had when it all started.

Sure, Harry isn’t to blame for his father being a piece of shit. But someone with that kind of trauma—untreated, no therapy, no tools—also isn’t to blame for having disruptive, dysfunctional reactions. You’re not dealing with someone who’s healed or supported. You’re dealing with a 31-year-old who basically got stuck at 21, who made a deal with the devil—that is, Dumbledore—and had to go back to the place that represents the worst years of his life, basically as a servant to an old man giving him orders. And you expect that guy to handle, day after day, being face-to-face in class with the embodiment of his trauma? That’s just unfair.

Also the way he reacts around the marauders, constantly on edge.

He'd definitely choose to stay and fight in the war against Voldemort, because his arc is going from being somewhat selfish (caring about his own safety, and about Lily's as his emotional attachment figure. I'm not at all saying it was some kind of big moral failure, in my opinion what we see in teen/YA Sev is self-preservation not even taken far enough to be truly effective or actively ruthless; but this is indeed an axis where his stance changes with age) to being selfless, and choosing to sacrifice Lily's son because Albus told him it's the only way to win the war.

If he returns to the time before Potters' death, he'd definitely still care for Lily and desperately want to protect her (tho I don't think he'd try to have a deep personal relationship with her — in the same way he didn't after they broke apart, except there'd be way more guilt and his belief in his "brokenness" mixed into it now; as well as him probably being weirded out seeing Lily as a teen with the eyes of an adult who spent his life working with teens. I think he'd try to earn her abstract "forgiveness", and ensure her safety first and foremost, regardless of whether we read snily as romantic or platonic. Tho it can definitely go many different ways, depending on how she behaves and what the context is! I really like the idea of him getting disullisioned with her after a jarring contrast of his curated for years, idealised version, and an alive stubborn teenager. I don't think it's possible that he'd stop caring AT ALL without like a decade long, intense character arc explaining how). He'd still care about Malfoys, too, and overall, i think he'd try to help the DEs (especially those younger then him) to avoid harm however much he can, aside from maaaybe the most insane, sadistic ones like Bella.

I think Severus would've felt personally responsible for saving everyone he physically can – probably even James, lol, considering the things he does for Sirius (to an extent even while thinking him a terrorist murderer responsible for Lily's death, and eager to murder children) and Remus, and that even as a 21yo he warns Albus about all the Potters, even if Lily's feelings and safety are the main concern. Adult Snape is a person who helps others, regardless of how unsafe or hard it is for him, or how much he doesn't like the person in danger, or how verbally mean he can be about it. We repeatedly see that he treats physical safety of other people as his responsibility and duty.

Minerva: Alright.

Lockhart: Hey, I-

Severus: SHUT UP!

Lockhart: I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED MY SENTENCE!!

Bertram is the guy hexed by James and Sirius btw.

At first I liked the idea, but now that I’m a bit older, it just doesn’t work for me anymore. While Lucius might have treated Severus like a sort of younger brother or close ally, I don’t see that translating into something like choosing him as a godparent.

When it comes to families like the Malfoys, things like status and blood purity matter a lot. A role like godparent would almost definitely go to someone of equal or higher social standing and someone within their pure-blood circle. It’s not really the kind of position they’d give to someone outside that status, no matter how close they are personally.

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