Always. Request of lkng

Always.

Request of lkng

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One more touch; one more secret.  (Request 1/8) jedi-wizard-hobbit: Lupin/Snape, Marauders Era :) I know you’re all for Wolfstar but I love Snupin :3 Since it’s Marauder’s Era, I had to do a little dreamcast: Adrian Brody for Severus Snape and Andrew Garfield for Remus Lupin.

One more touch; one more secret. 

(Request 1/8) jedi-wizard-hobbit:

Lupin/Snape, Marauders Era :) I know you’re all for Wolfstar but I love Snupin :3

Since it’s Marauder’s Era, I had to do a little dreamcast: Adrian Brody for Severus Snape and Andrew Garfield for Remus Lupin.

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*Bookgasm* Snape would be a reader, eh?

*Bookgasm*

Snape would be a reader, eh?

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When I first received this ask, I texted andshimmy, and we had a little back ‘n’ forth something like this (paraphrased):

Me: S/o ‘asked’ me abt SNARRY.

&Sh: Hmm. SO not into crossgen.

Me: Crossgen is (secretly) my fav thing ever!! Esp w Harry. I just prefer the ppl involved actually LIKE eachother.

&Sh: I’m the opposite. Not offended by xgen, just don’t care for it. But Drarry? YES PLEASE.

So, there you have it: I’m one of those interested in crossgen — with Harry! (I know. I’m terrible.) — but not one of those interested in the Hatred-is-Passion-is-Love Trope. And I find the idea of Snape and Harry getting physical a bit squicky (could be to do with some very graphic and very skilled drawings I saw of them when I was young and impressionable). HOWEVER. There are some aesthetic reasons I find Snarry interesting.

There are the eyes. These eyes are a powerful symbol that binds Snape to Harry — before Snape ever sees them, he knows he will give his life for them. [EDIT: I wrote a poem sort of about this but now I’m thinking this calls for another].

For some reason, though, Snape is dead set against seeing any other characteristic of Lily’s in Harry, and insists Harry is his father all over again, though Dumbledore disagrees. Why? Surely he should want justification for the protection he has sworn to give — he should LOOK for Lily and not for James — eyeballs and half a genome aren’t enough. What is he afraid will happen if he sees Lily in Harry? What kind of feelings is he afraid of experiencing?

(So, that’s the beginning. It goes on like that for a while. In the middle, there’s some “penetrate your mind” business, and that’s all a disaster, they can’t work together. Harry wants to blame Snape for Sirius’s death. And then Snape kills Dumbledore. Not many opportunities to hook-up with all that going on.)

It isn’t until the end — after Harry has put his own hand into a wound in Snape’s throat and felt him bleed out — that we find out about Snape’s patronus: it’s the doe. And Harry’s is the Stag. They’re a pair, aren’t they? (Remember what Harry felt in the forest, when he saw the doe? How familiar she was, how he trusted her? How he felt she had an answer for him?) I love what the stag/doe relationship says about the quality (and compatibility/comparability) of their natures.

And we know, in the end, that Harry is, deep down, less James than he is Lily — Snape’s great love. But she’s been gone for 16 years — who is it Snape’s loved all this time?

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[rumour]

Untrue. The original post is tagged:

harry potter i found it on the internet so its definitely real james potter lily evans severus snape this is actually true ZOMG WHY IS THIS SO DEPRESSING apprently this is someone’s head canon so oops my bad 

So, there you go.

Additionally, I really think that if this were part of the story it would have been PART OF the story, but as it stands would add nothing to it. I don’t really think Snape’s relationship with Lily as we see it in canon is really consistent with this (not to say it isn’t fine headcanon and everything, it’s certainly tragic).

(Source: peculiarpepper)

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The Connection (WBUR Radio), 12 October, 1999

  • Lydon: One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to fall in love?
  • JKR: Yeah? Who on earth would want Snape in love with them, that is a very horrible idea. Erm ...
  • Lydon: But you'd get an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape
  • JKR: It is, isn't it ... I got ... There's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't because it'd ruin ... I promise you ... whoever asked that question, can I just say to you that I'm - I'm slightly stunned that you've said that - erm - and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read book 7. And that's all I'm going to say.

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Snape’s a drag queen? It’s canon."
—Melissa Anelli, Pottercast: “90. Live from New Orleans”, May 17, 2007

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Though their mutual hatred did not suggest to me an amorous bond, I could not overlook the correspondence between their patronuses.

Though their mutual hatred did not suggest to me an amorous bond, I could not overlook the correspondence between their patronuses.

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via Leaky Cauldron It warms my heart to see those smiles.

via Leaky Cauldron

It warms my heart to see those smiles.

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James vs. Snape vs. Harry

theatomicboom:

How can you hate James Potter for being a bully, when Snape was a bully too? (A bully to children!)

James was a bully for no reason, he was pampered from day one, Snape had such a fucked up life which James also helped with […] and if you ask me Snape wouldn’t of been so mean if he had a better family life or ended up with lily […] James was such a jerk! I respect him for trying to save his wife and baby son but other than that I plain out HATE him, I never liked him. […]

I disagree.

James was a bully in his teen years, and yes, by that age Harry was a much stronger, fairer, more mature person. Maturity was required of him, and he responded well to that pressure. As Atomic pointed out, there was no such requirement in James’ life. So. Yes, James bullied in his teen years.

Snape, on the other hand, commited abominable acts in his young adulthood. Acts much worse that bullying. We don’t know what he did for the Death Eaters, but being a member of their society is subscribing to murder, discrimination, and the disruption of peace. He gave Voldemort information he was aware would lead to the murder of a baby. And I believe he committed murder — his soul was already marred when Dumbledore requested that Snape kill him; Dumbledore would not have sought the marring of a whole soul.

Snape was also a bully in throughout his adulthood. As mentioned, he bullied children — students. The way he treats Hermione, for example. What he says about her teeth. That is not an acceptable way for a teacher, or any adult, to treat a 15 year old.

We do not know that James would not have been a bully as an adult, but I think that it is implied that he mellowed out and matured, and stopped bullying, because Lily would not otherwise have changed her mind about him. Apart from protecting Harry, he doesn’t commit any great acts of good, either. His life is modest, all told. Snape leads a life of many terrible acts and many great ones.   

Snape is not redeemed by his obsessive love. Loving someone obsessively does not make you deserving of them, nor does it mean a relationship between the two of you would work out. Nor do I think that not getting the woman you are obsessed with justifies a life of cruelty. Love should have taught him compassion and kindness, but it did not.

Additionally, if he really loved Lily, he should not have joined the Death Eaters at all, even if he joined them out of love of the Dark Arts rather than hatred of muggles and muggleborns. As a lesbian, I feel betrayed when anyone I love votes conservative, and anti-homosexuality is not their primary message.

I think that protecting Harry, serving the Order, and acting as a double agent, at great personal risk, does redeem Snape, morally. I respect him. But he’s not a nice guy. Compare him to Harry, who found it in himself to love many people (ie. more than ONE person), and learned compassion and kindness at an early age despite experiencing abuse throughout his childhood.

That’s just how I see it. I don’t hate Snape; I don’t love James. But I think it’s unfair to champion one above the other.

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