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Published: 2019-07-13 18:32:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 928; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 0
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I was into Harry Potter (I literally just fucking typed "Harry Potty" by accident) long before I got a DA account and have long moved on from it.But once in a blue moon I dream about my favorite character, Snape.
Last night was one such occasion, and because it made me happy I google imaged "cute Snape" to make myself feel extra good.
But in my search, I found an article where someone explained why they hate him.
They iterated that he is a vindictive child abuser who plays extreme favoritism on top of being wildly petty and overly obsessed with a dead woman who never reciprocated his love for her.
And...
They're right!
I totally get why people hate him and why the craze for him is questioned, through and through.
But it's ingrained in me to love him by this point; in high school and junior year, he was almost all I drew.
Ever.
I have entire sketchpads filled with him and my OC for him, Maiya.
So because I love him so much -- as does Kitten, we've decided to settle on a MASSIVE head canon for him that totally breaks his entire character arc in the books and movie (and we prefer to go off the movie), and I don't care.
HERE IT IS.
~~Snape HC~~
He loved Lily and she was his best friend as a kid, yes, and yes, James was a dickweed to him, and Snape ultimately hated him for tormenting him and then taking his best friend away.
Yes, for a little while he contemplated how wonderful it would've been if she had loved him on a romantic level, but he got over it.
He's demisexual, and was attracted to her because she was the only person (let alone a girl) he knew and trusted.
But since she pulled away from him, it basically left him sexually barren, if you will.
So yay, not so creepy.
He got into bad shit and became a Death Eater, then regretted it horribly, especially when he realized Voldemort was going to kill the Potters.
But a little before Voldemort moved to kill them, James actually grew the hell up and apologized to Snape, and for a couple of weeks he was loosely in touch with them.
Uncomfortable around James, but started to connect with Lily again on a platonic level.
But then of course, Voldetits killed his best friend and it made him turn against that order entirely.
Sevvy promised to serve Dumbledore in exchange for his efforts to protect them and he would protect Harry, bla bla bla.
Over time, he genuinely was disturbed by the fact that he got caught up with the Death Eaters and meant it when he turned good, but it took time.
Snape did, yes, want to teach Dark Arts, but didn't use it as an excuse to torment his Potions students.
He was cold, callous and bitter, but didn't bully his students or play favorites with his House.
Sometimes he was a little ridiculous, but not a totally bloated a-hole.
And no, he didn't hit the kids.
If they got in trouble or pissed him off, he chewed them out hard and made hollow threats.
When Harry came about, he had a tough time dealing with seeing him there, but he treated him as neutrally as everyone else.
He didn't single him out or bully him exclusively; he was as cold to him as the other kids.
But with Lucius being his best male friend (yeah, we always jibed with that and loved it dearly), he would sometimes baby Draco a tad...until Draco pissed him off.
Most kids, Harry included, still hated him and he made it very easy for them to do so, but he was basically not such a bully and not physically and mentally abusive.
He was tough on Harry in The Order of the Phoenix when he was teaching him to conceal his thoughts from Voldemort, but that was out of desperation to keep him safe and keep his promise to Dumbly and Lily.
He didn't call James a swine or insult him casually in front of Harry.
In his time of death, Severus transcended time, and was able to make peace with Dumbledore, James and Lily, and free himself.
But he didn't go into the light, because by the time that was finished, he was brought back.
At the end of the events of the Deathly Hallows, after Voldemort was killed and things were calming down, Harry ran out and found the Resurrection Stone, which he used to revive Snape because he hadn't been dead long enough for things to go wrong.
(Sometimes people die for 45 minutes to an hour and come back to life, it happens so fite me.)
After such time, he was taken to Azkaban to serve for his crimes as a Death Eater, but was soon relieved of imprisonment by a movement from the new Headmistress, Minerva McGonagall.
Harry told her everything.
He was re-instated as Potions Master, which he took back calmly, and stopped pushing to teach Dark Arts.
By this time, he felt a genuine desire to protect and help kids, even if he was also disinterested in them on a basic level.
Okay buckle up, because this is where it gets cringy.
So the castle is fixed and after some time, with McG being the new Head Mistress, she wanted someone to take her place as Transfiguration teacher.
A woman named Maiya, an old student and favorite of Slughorn's applied and took over.
She became Sev's friend.
Snape was absolutely exhausted, defeated and trying to learn how to normalize himself since he no longer had to play double-agent and hide his thoughts and feelings like Fort Nox.
It was like he was prisonized in his own head, and after having only just gotten past Lily and having gotten closure, he didn't want to let Maiya get too close, but she eventually won him over as a friend.
Someday in the late late late late late future, he will become the Headmaster.
But that's like a bazillion years away.
No, he and Maiya don't shack up, but they tend to "parent" some students who need them from time to time.
They're like the school's mom and dad, even though the dad is scary af.
Snape is asexual.
Lucius also reforms completely and remains Snape's best friend.
He has to lie low for a very long time.
Snape actually bathes and washes his freaking hair.
It's fluffy and soft, but a little messy.
His teeth aren't great but they aren't fugly.
He has permanent scars on his neck from where Nagini bit and killed him and from where Voldemort slit his throat.
His patronus shifts from a doe to a raven, as he finally gains an independence in his heart.
The raven represents him well, given its large hooked beak, very messy feathers, high intelligence, and lack of fear.
They are mysterious, but surpringly playful and/or humorous at times.
Not to mention their deep, throaty voices and love of mating for life.
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You're welcome, and i'm welcome, and we're all welcome.
I love JKR's legendary works, but...sometimes she's just kind of...foolish.
But she DID tell us Snape was grey; not a saint, but not a devil.
She is aware of the character she created, but fans — like myself — thought of him only as a hero.
The creepiness of it is astounding and I feel bad for not having recognized it myself.
It also doesn't help that they had the gorgeous Alan Rickman cast as Severus, I mean...damn.
Rest in peace, buddy.
I feel like I knew ya.
In that article I read, it was mentioned that someone on Tumblr pointed out that if Harry had been female, Snape would've most likely associated her with Lily and been much more lenient, if not...a little creepy.
It's a very unsettling notion, but one that can't be ignored.
So to people who love to hate him and don't believe in changing canon so heavily, eat my furry pirate anoos.
He was a really good part of my life, so i'm not letting him go and if that means reform, then that's what i'm doing.
Now i can finally rest. *flop*
Enjoy!
---DO NOT STEAL MY STUFF!!! I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER BUT I DO OWN THIS ART!!!---
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Unlike you, I didn't come up with any OCs related to this fandom until very recently. In the middle of the night, fresh off of watching a long play of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PC (the second time in two months), I came up with Theodosia Barrett, a half-blood Ravenclaw who was 9 when the Potters were killed, making her in her 40s by the current timeline. I was speculating how Hogwarts teachers could teach seven years worth of students and still keep their seven plus curriculums straight without help; all of the teachers I've had since middle school have had at least three class sections that they would teach, and at least one of them would have a teaching assistant (for special needs students or for giving the assistants teaching experience). Thus was the ground work for inventing a student-teacher/assistant professor who would teach alongside Snape, Flitwick, Sprout, or whichever teacher whose discipline Theodosia would teach once she graduated to full tenured professorship. And someone has to teach Potions when Slughorn goes into his second retirement or dies of old age.
I didn't like Snape when reading the books, and his overt favoritism towards students in his own house is unethical, never mind the relentless bullying of Harry Potter because of his father. I still don't condone these actions, even though I can understand the motivation behind them. Even still, I find similarity with the eternally sullen and grumpy "hook nosed witch" in my training to be working with children myself; as a child, and especially as an adult, I cannot stand children who do not come to class to learn and expand their minds.
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