Severus; "When crows remember those who wronged them and hold grudges, it's "intelligent" and "really cool," but when I do it, I'm "petty" and I "need to move on." What kind of double standard..."

Commission

Hi !

It is soon Christmas ! I hope you will spend a great time during end of the year's festivities !

I don't post much anymore, you I just want to remind you I still do drawing commission on my Kofi page ! If you commission me now you can have it before Christmas !

Some exemple of what I can do :

With that, some news about me :

I am starting testosterone with week ! I am super nervous and excited ! Plus, I started some months ago to save money for my futur flat AND a future mammectomy ! So all money I can have will be for these project =)

I am employed this year, but in September 2024, I will (again) start a new school (hopefully my last one). I will be a co-op student so no school fees ! And I will have a salary !

Beside that, life is pretty calm and sweet.

I wish everyone to have a peaceful end of the year <3

Lots of love

Capy

It’s that time of the year again :)

made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to

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i'm curious to know the ratio of writers to readers on ao3 so here's a poll. when i say writer, i mean people who have published works on ao3, doesn't matter if it's once, or if it was ages ago, or if it's a regular occurrence. when i say reader, i mean people who have never published a work on ao3. the reader vote still counts if you don't have an account on ao3. if you're a writer who is also an active reader, please still click on the "writer" option!

please do boost this so it reaches a larger sample space!

Ok just for curiosity reasons

I genuinely hate to say this but please reblog if you hit the like button for a larger sample size thank you <3

the results are SO FRICKING FUNNY

snape knits because of course he does, feat. a very entertained minerva. 🧶

(also we’ve both had enough of summer pls)

for @wellpresseddaisy since i kept remembering you while drawing this :)

Okay, now I need a fic where Snape knits a sweater for someone, but it certainly isn't because he Likes them

"Oh so you like the Harry Potter books?"

No I like Severus Snape there's a difference

Something that annoys me a bit about how people look at the mauraders especially in connection to Snape, is the classist element in it. Now, JKR comes from a society where classism is still very ingratiated in the social tissue.

Snape obviously comes from a working class background which is proven by the place he grew up in. James and Sirius - although Sirius rebelled against his family and left - were essentially very privileged and rich boys. James left a huge inheritance to Harry. So, the question of privilege is very important here and it’s not discussed often enough. James was all-around since birth a much more privileged person than Snape. So his bullying should also be placed in that context. I think this actually gives a new dimension to it as it cannot just be reduced to a question of antipathy. Snape and James weren’t equal in any way not just personality-wise but in a very deep social way - especially if we consider that we’re talking about 60-70s Britain. And of course, they would both be very aware of this as Malfoy was aware that Ron was poor because of the clothes he wore.

Quite honestly, very very very few current internet commentators seem to really grasp what JKR was pointing at with Snape and his background, and I think it’s partly because it’s so incredibly British in its depiction.  Class exists in other cultures, but it really permeates British society in a manner that’s difficult to really explain to anyone outside of the UK.

Snape’s poverty is also of its era; the deprivation alluded to is difficult for anyone who grew up in the last 15 or so years to completely appreciate.  That’s not to say that people can’t read up about it, but it’s not quite the same as having that first hand experience.  There’s a specificity about it which means that if your experiences are of the Blair era onwards, and/or you grew up in a different social class, you possibly won’t quite grasp it - not least because, thankfully, society has improved a lot in many areas.  

So much of what JK writes about Snape’s background relies on shared culture, as opposed to being categorically spelled out within the text.  Harry’s neglect and abuse is explicitly written; Snape’s is alluded to - and the disparity in how she depicts the two means that many miss what’s really being suggested when it comes to Snape.

Personally, I find her handling of Snape’s background incredibly deft.  That shared culture means that many people read the passage where Tobias is shouting at Eileen, and those people nod their heads and say, “I know exactly what went on in that house.”

Snape’s background is a depiction of endemic unending poverty, domestic unrest (and implied violence), and abject neglect.  It’s also why so many readers leap to the conclusion that Tobias is violent towards Eileen and towards Severus.  That presumption seems to leave so many on the internet baffled at such certainty when it’s not actually written in black and white - but what they’re missing is that JK has used a social shorthand that everyone ‘in’ on the meaning understands.

Furthermore, it’s rarely discussed, but there’s a very good reason why Lily responds to Snape’s Mudblood insult by highlighting his poverty and neglect.  Snape’s ‘greying’ pants aren’t about him being unclean - white clothes ‘grey’ when they’re old, and that’s what Lily’s remarking upon.  (After all, it seems unlikely that the kids are responsible for their own washing - you would’ve thought Harry would’ve whined about washing his socks and pants, as opposed to his magical homework. Do we really think Snape wasn’t washing his clothes, or rather that his clothing was substandard to begin with?) 

Notably, Snape highlighted her otherness in the magical world, and she threw his otherness in society right back at him.

And that’s just looking at his comparison with Lily - she was loved by her parents, and grew up in a middle class home.  The only thing Snape has is his knowledge of magic…and that’s the one aspect he can bring to their friendship which impresses Lily.

James, on the other hand, has the full house - he grew up in a wealthy home, with parents who adored him, in a magical society.  The situation between James and Severus could not be more unequal - and it’s got nothing to do with dark magic.

It’s also an analogy for the grammar school system - which again, is lost on a lot of people, because it’s very of its time.  Snape is the kid who comes from the sink estate who passed the exams against all odds - and when he gets to the school, where he’s earned his place, he sticks out like a sore thumb.  He has the talent to be at Hogwarts, but not the social background.

On the flipside, James is the depiction of a kid who was always going to get to grammar school, who belongs at the grammar school…he also has the talent, but he has everything else as well - and he can’t fathom why someone from Snape’s background is sitting next to him.

That’s not a criticism of James - it’s an understanding of where his character comes from, and why he reacts so violently towards Snape, but he doesn’t react in a similar way to Sirius.  This doesn’t excuse his dislike, but it goes some way to explain it.  It shows why other characters like him so much - he’s fun, and clever, and nicely dressed, and confident, and sporty, and talented…but he can’t get past his outright dislike of Snape, which grows over the years and encompasses other issues (such as being jealous of his friendship with Lily).

There is a very important parallel that James and Sirius don’t accept Severus because Severus’ background makes him other - just as the Death Eaters and their ilk don’t accept Lily because Lily’s bloodline makes her other.

Add on the fact that people see what Severus and Harry went through and view it differently, because there is like a 20 year difference between them. Being a child in the 60s was different from being a child in the 80s/90s. Severus’ situation is obvious for the those of us who lived like him. Harry’s is even more obvious because of how it was written. It was supposed to paint the Dursleys in a horrible light without making it seem too bad. Like Harry is a miracle case that managed to turn out right or something. After all, people out there still think Harry wasn’t neglected/abused and that he’s just a whiner.

There were no seatbelts on cars in the 60s. Today, if your child doesn’t wear one, it’s considered child abuse and can get your child taken away. No one cared about that kind of thing in the 50s and 60s.  Your neighbors could beat your ass for anything and tell your parents some made up shit, and your parents wouldn’t even question them. And would then beat you as well. Parents didn’t consider that the child had a side of the story. No one cared.

There came a time during the mid-90s and onward, where children started to become important. People started to consider that kids suffer trauma, and actually have opinions and feelings. People started to notice that not every method of child rearing is actually safe or healthy for the child. And in this day and age, we view things done decades ago, as horrible abuse, whereas decades ago, it was ‘just good fun’.(It explains why no one who suffers trauma in HP, ever gets the help they need.)

So consider how in the 70s, the Marauders and their antics were considered just good fun and no one dared punish them for anything they did because no one cared about the affect it had on kids. Today, the Marauders and their actions would be vilified, because of how society has progressed in recognizing abuse and bullying. And no, it’s not perfect yet, but we are getting there.

Times are changing constantly. Society changes too, though not as quickly. So Severus’ abuse is understated because in the 60s, no one gave a shit about children. Harry’s is more prevalent and noticeable, because in the 90s, people started thinking about the feelings of children, and HP was written in the 90s, and looked back on different time periods frequently. The HP movies make it take place in present day, which makes Harry’s situation appear even worse in this day and age. Because that isn’t right and should not happen now. It’s wrong. It’s barbaric.

So of course people would fawn over Harry and pity him or feel righteous anger on his behalf. His situation was apparent for the viewers. Severus Snape’s wasn’t. And wasn’t meant to be.

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Well, here’s CC’s explicit explanation as to why Harry named his son after Severus... he greatly admired Snape’s secret as in what he did for Dumbledore.

It wasn’t because Snape loved Harry’s mother, at least not just that... it’s because of all the heroic things Snape did as "Dumbledore’s man".

It’s also an explaination for the association. Albus and Severus are linked, for Harry, more than anyone else. Without Albus, we couldn’t have won the war. But Albus could never have won the war by himself without Severus, as Scorpius says:

Or, as Scorpius explains more:

Naming his son Albus Severus wasn’t done based on a pure emotional whim. Not from Harry, the one who hated Severus with "savage pleasure" (HBP), even when he knew it was unfair and exaggerated.

It was done because Albus and Severus—together—are the reason the world could be saved and Harry could live. Severus wasn’t added just because he loved Lily—he and Albus connected with each other through the war they fought against Voldemort.

Albus entrusted Severus with secrets he could never reveal to anybody (a bit like Harry was regarding the Horcruxes) and which meant he had to remain hated by the world for casting himself as Dumbledore’s murderer instead of his man.

When Snape had to finish Dumbledore off (not even his attempt at healing could get Dumbledore to live much longer), he was—and felt—utterly alone. Because Dumbledore had been his only true confident up until now. He only had a portrait (not the real person) to rely to later... thanks god, or Snape would have to manage the school and the war all by himself otherwise (including, perhaps, as the new unofficial general/leader of the Order). Dumbledore’s death affected Snape more than any other.

I mean, it’s quite something to become the one who finishes your best friend/confident off at their demand, even though you’d never have done it otherwise... putting your own preference aside (of not killing them), risking the integrity of your soul, just to answer the demand of your dying friend, to spare them suffering and give them a clean, painless death at last.

Regulus never did this. Remus didn’t. Cedric didn’t. I doubt they’d ever be able to do this, seeing as what they did and who they became in canon.

The only one who can really connect in the act of inflicting Dumbledore with dark magic is Harry, who gave him poison just to get a Horcrux, following Dumbledore’s previous order despite his pleadings... mere hours before Snape will, at Dumbledore’s demand ("Please"), kill him off.

That’s what the name means, for Harry. He knows both men had their own flaws... he tells Albus Severus this. But he also recongizes it doesn’t make them in less great, and in fact those heavy flaws almost made them greater—as faillible human beings who still strived, together, to save the world he and his family live in.

Snape does literally everything in his power to make up for his days as a Death Eater, and the anti Snape crowd calls it “the bare minimum”.

Snape feels guilt, remorse, anger, and grief about his past, his role in Lily’s death, and his continued double agent role and expresses it, and the anti Snape crowd calls it “creepy”.

Snape commits himself to a cause that does not serve him, sacrificing his ambition, his reputation, his relationships, his soul, and eventually his life, and the anti snape crowd calls it “selfish”.

There’s absolutely nothing this man could do that would not be twisted into something perverse.