Tell your baby that I'm your baby

Sad boi pining reg you will always be famous

James: Your what?

Regulus: Our friend group???

James: That's not what you-

Evan: That's exactly what he said.

Tbh I feel like people mix up movie and book Snape a lot, while the movie Snape was nicer and not a total bitch, the book one is a man whore, a bully, a bitch and a dick.

And I hateeee that people can't see it just bc they find the actor of Snape "hot" or feel bad for him cuz he got rejected by Lily and died like sybau people get rejected everyday and you don't bully the child of the women you love nor any other children as their TEACHER.

I'm glad lily rejected him, my girl saw a red flag that cannot be fixed and ran.

If Lily was so observant on red flags, she might've thought about not dating James “Go out with me, and I’ll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again” Potter. A certified redflag man. Peak toxic masculinity.

Do some people mix up book! and movie! Snape? Sure. Just as with every other HP character. But you guys get hate not because of that, but because you have absolutely insane takes, no idea what had happened in the books for the most part, and live in your own world as separate from canon as one may imagine, while managing to victimblame your faves' victim and pinkwash their behaviour.

And yes, traumatised people are going to have unadaptive emotional reactions. Snape is mean. He is also hurt. That's not an exuse, that's an explanation. "If he cares so much about getting bullied than he shouldn't do that himself" is a rather naïve, utopian view on human psyche. People who don't have space, resourses and mechanisms to heal their traumas; people who aren't even able to move physically from triggering spaces and people; people whose traumatic expieriences were never acknowledged; people who don't have room to express their resentment towards the abuser whom everyone glorifies; people who were never taught emotional management and grew up without adult guidance; people who are under extreme stress; people who never worked with a mental health professional or at least received support from loved ones, aren't going to heal. They are going to be dysfunctional and inconvenient for those around them. And that's important to acknowledge, because we can't expect that kind of magic from irl victims too, and therefore it's our duty as a society to provide them with means for reintegration and with systematic suppost. Basically: this and this and this. That is "finding Snape realistic".

Not to say that Snape never undressed someone without their consent, or tried to feed them to the werewolf, and that's "a bit" a different kind of bullying, no? Snape bullied people in a way Trelawney or Hagrid did. That's not good, of course it would be better if he didn't, but that not anything standing out in the social context Snape existed within. Voldemort classified the similar act to James' one as a "muggle torture".

And yeah you're right of the trauma thing I was in a car when I replied so I didn't have much detail butt I still stand by how he should not have did the things he did but it happened.

Now now let me explain my view on Snape properly, so he's a very complicated character but he is NOT a good person. In my original post I forgot to add that or I just didn't add it for idk reason, that I hate it when people defend Snape as if he's all innocent, that's basically part of what pissed me off In the first place but obviously I didn't show that well (or at all) and I did not think it was THAT serious.

(Also I'm trying to keep up with what I'm trying to say cuz I'm ADHD so don't mind if the topics are repeated)

And, unrelated maybe but I'm not saying the marauders were completely nice was well, they're all a bitch and have flaws which the later I believe fixed? and that's what I like about them. Snape is also a bitch and I find him cool even tho I'm not necessarily his fan, mostly bc the fandom is kinda toxic from what I've seen and they just kept giving excuses and ik you said it's an explanation but I mostly see it as an excuse since he had plenty of time to heal and just do better yk? But he didn't make an effort.

And when I mean nicer I meant as in better to tolerate, not literal nice like but I still stand by that statement tho, book Snape pissed me off so bad when I was reading it to the point where I do not care of what happened in the past to him but only what he's doing to the kids. I don't find that part cool but I do find his character cool if that makes sense.

Usually I stay with fan fics and stay away from canon bc that's less pain and I've read fics where Snape is nice and shit and I live for those buttt on the original post I was talking about canon BECAUSE the comments were all about canon, ik you can't see those comments but you can imagine (if this topic is also unrelated then don't mind it I'm just explaining)