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Snape would obviously be a Waterbender in a world where Waterbending was considered the most likely sign you're part of an evil group (and not Firebending):

He's Slytherin, and Slytherin is loosely associated with water but also the moon which is the source of power to waterbend (since the Moon creates tides)

Slytherin is associated with the Lake and the Giant Squid -> Waterbending's Octopus ability

Potions Master ~ water, solutions and plantbending (though that would have to have a link with earthbending, probably)

Waterbending is the element of change and adaptation (Snape as the spy and Master Occlumens, but not just that)

Water can be drawn from the large majority of living things so waterbending can be used to dry up forests, animals and humans, even killing them

Snape would master Bloodbending, a forbidden technique that people consider evil and which can "take away" one's bending by breaking chi paths permanently -> Dark Magic

Bloodbending -> Sectumsempra

Waterbending offers the ability to heal: Healing -> Vulnera Sanentur

"Instead of simply deflecting an attack, waterbending's defensive maneuvers focus on control, achieved through turning an opponent's own strength against them, rather than directly harming the opponent" -> Occlumency and self-control

Snape may specialize in creating ice because he's a very cold character, or fog/mist because he's the elusive spy, and even snow for his more beautiful side

Water at high pressure can cut through rocks and metal

"Waterbending is the antithetical bending art to firebending, though it is similar in its need for inner discipline, breath control, and a strong connection to external forces. Firebenders use quick strong punches and kicks to shoot fire, while waterbenders use slow movements and elegant turns and spins to return the momentum of the opponents' attacks with blasts of water. Firebenders attack first, while waterbenders wait and turn their target's attacks against them." -> Syltherin vs Gryffindor, Snape's introduction for potions, self-discipline and self-control, defensive personnality

"If an inexperienced waterbender were to lose their temper, their waterbending force is intensified, but in turn, control is lost" -> see Snape's angry fits and need for self-control

Teaching Harry Occlumency would be like teaching a firebender the philosophy of waterbending; though ironically enough waterbending and firebending can have a lot in common

Spiritbending, anyone?

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(TW POLICE VIOLENCE)

France has been feeling like a police state this week, there were 5000 cops deployed in Paris yesterday (watch this video and tell me this is a normal amount of cops and they're behaving normally) and they keep acting like they have total immunity*, to beat up protesters, to arrest protesters, or just random people walking in the vicinity of a protest. My 70+-year-old dad tried to go to a peaceful protest and had to abandon the idea because of all the tear gas being used by police.

*Which they do—as Le Monde pointed out, the cops who are violent risk nothing because they can't be identified because almost none of them wear their identification number even though it's supposed to be mandatory. They're not being penalised for not wearing them, so why should they?

If you can stomach it, please have a look at the photos and videos on this Twitter account documenting French police brutality against protesters—as I write this, the most recent tweet is about a journalist who was beaten up by a BRAV-M cop* using his steel baton; he had his head cracked open and his hand broken.

(* BRAV-M is a motorised repression corps—cops on bikes—a unit that was dissolved in 1986 after some of them beat a student to death, who wasn't even attending a protest but walking near one. Macron changed the unit's name, from Voltigeurs to BRAV-M, and reestablished it to suppress the Yellow Vests protests. This week, a BRAV-M cop deliberately drove over a 19-year-old's leg at a protest after chasing him on his bike. The victim said he heard a cop say to others "Smash him." Another BRAV-M punched a protester unconscious on March 20. And today Le Monde published an article about BRAV-M cops being recorded bragging about "breaking elbows and faces.")

In Paris last week the CRS arrested a 14-year-old kid because they took him for a dangerous black bloc protester I guess?? A child spent a night in police custody without knowing why. They've also arrested several 15 / 16 year-olds. Let's teach the youth what happens when you exercise your right to protest!

On March 16th in Paris, within one evening, they arrested 292 people, and 283 were released without charges, which means they're mass-arresting people for peaceful protests as a strategy of intimidation. The student I mentioned in my post the other day, who spent 48 hours in custody and was eventually charged for refusing to have his DNA samples taken and filed, asked the cops why they were arresting him + 4 other people who were walking down the same street and they said "Because you look like fucking leftists."

The government tells us "We fully support our brave police forces" when the cops are arresting people for "looking like leftists." How are we still a democracy? The guy also mentioned that during the time he spent at the police station, the police was mostly arresting Maghrebis, though they made an exception for him, a Black guy. There are videos from the past week of cops beating up women, tear gassing protesters in the face from 20cm away, kicking protesters in the face when they're already on the ground, crushing their heads under their boot, brutalising a homeless man and old ladies, tear gassing crowds with young children in them. I'm having trouble finding links to these specific incidents I remember because there are so many videos circulating.

Look at this video, they're violently striking the back of people's heads with steel batons even when the protesters are already going in the direction they're told to. The little old lady shoved around and trying to protect her head from the strikes is breaking my heart.

Surely at the point when enforcers of state authority are arresting middle schoolers, beating up citizens for exercising their rights and gassing and pepper spraying elderly people, children and babies in strollers, the government might want to make some sort of statement condemning this state of affairs, but instead they have been telling us they're proud of & grateful for their police forces, which of course angers people and makes protests more violent. The Minister of the Interior, who supervises the police, praises them wholeheartedly and excuses all instances of deliberate brutality as 'isolated incidents' due to 'tiredness'.

Here's a thread in English describing a protester's experience—"Yesterday (March 23) the level of arbitrary police violence clearly leveled up. I was tear gassed three times without being able to move in a very dense crowd; policemen took advantage that people were unable to move more than 20cm to pounce on us and bludgeon us in a totally arbitrary manner." (you can see an example of this behaviour in this video from a different protest)

Yesterday, after a day of nationwide protests that brought a fresh new wave of video evidence of cops beating up protesters and making reckless use of tear gas—at the end of a day when a special ed teacher at a protest got her thumb torn off by a tear gas grenade—this is what the French Prime Minister said:

They're not even trying to play it off like "both sides made mistakes" they're telling us they condone everything the police is doing, that this is what they're deploying them for:

(screencap from this video)

(this is from this video, in which you can hear a woman screaming "Stop it! You're strangling him! You have no right! I'm filming you!" The cops don't seem to care about being filmed. They're beating up citizens with the government's full blessing after all.)

Macron's government is trying to intimidate people into giving up their right to protest, by deploying cops in huge numbers and publicly voicing complete support for their behaviour, by allowing them to beat and arrest hundreds of people and to use tear gas indiscriminately. Tear gas has been completely normalised as a means of state violence, it's very practical that it doesn't leave traces of blood or broken bones I guess, but it's still violence, it burns, it's a chemical whose effects on people's health we don't know a lot about.

^ Paris (from this vid; caption: "one tear gas grenade after the other")

Macron condescendingly told us there's no "magic money" which is why the pension reform is needed, but he did find the money to stockpile these apparently unlimited amounts of tear gas grenades to suppress protests against his reform to make poor people work longer.

^ Nantes (screencap from a vid in which the cops throw three or four grenades at once and you can hear people say "oh come on, seriously? this is crazy. Why? go fuck yourselves" in a tired tone)

We've also found out yesterday that three Corsican MPs were pressured not to support the Assembly's no-confidence vote against the government—by being told if they didn't vote it, a teaching hospital would be built in Corsica.

The island of Corsica is the only region of France that doesn't have a teaching hospital; due to lack of medical resources Corsicans often have to travel to mainland France for healthcare. Just last month the Minister of Health said sorry, still no teaching hospital for Corsica, it's just not possible right now. Then last week some "magic money" was apparently found to build it but only if the Corsican MPs didn't support the no-confidence vote. I know this kind of thing isn't exactly unique in politics but Macron has been slashing hospital budgets to the point that 20% of French hospital beds are closed due to lack of staff, and he used the health of 340,000 French citizens as a bribe to save his ass. The three Corsican MPs ended up voting in favour of the no-confidence vote despite of that, as it was what their constituents wanted (honour to them). Macron's government survived the no-confidence vote by only 9 votes.

Whatever legitimacy Macron has as a President right now is being clung to by MP corruption and police repression. How do we move forwards knowing that, I don't know. How does he have legitimacy to govern on any issues after the way he handled this reform and the following protests? His police forces are drowning city centres in tear gas, a chemical whose effect on birds and other fauna is not known, and we're supposed to listen to him talk about the environment? They're wasting thousands of litres of water using water cannons to disperse protesters, and we're supposed to listen to him talk about low groundwater levels and how we need to save water? I was going to say, what about his legitimacy abroad but other Western governments don't seem too bothered so far by his handling of the protests—though I'm grateful that Amnesty International did condemn it, and that a Belgian deputy made a speech in Parliament this week asking his government to condemn Macron's use of violent police repression.

[Wait, I just saw that as I was writing this post, the Council of Europe condemned the "excessive use of force" in France. Saying that 'sporadic acts of violence' of some protesters can't 'justify the excessive use of force by agents of the State' or 'deprive peaceful protesters of their right to freedom of assembly'. This is the opposite framing as the one our government is standing by—sporadic acts of violence by cops that are either justified or excusable—it's refreshing.]

Between that and Charles III cancelling his visit (and lots of tourists cancelling trips to Paris which is bound to piss off the tourism industry) and our own media waking up and starting to talk about the government's brutality, I hope Macron starts being held accountable. He has been fanning the flames of this crisis at every turn, by telling us that the crowds protesting in the street have 'no legitimacy', by sending cops to break strikes even though striking is a Constitutional right (but the only part of the Constitution he cares about is the one that starts with 49.3), by condemning the protesters when asked to condemn police violence—saying "When [protesters] use violence, unregulated, absolute, we're no longer in a Republic." I agree, but he's describing himself.

When you resort to using article 49.3 to bypass the National Assembly for the 11th time this term to impose a reform that 70% of the country is against (and 93% of working people) that will force the poorer classes of the population to work longer, and your only response to people's distress at being told to work until they die is to force them to accept it by allowing your police forces to beat up protesters, to arrest them and to gas them, you have failed as a democratic leader.

The next organised protest and strike is next Tuesday (if you want to give something to the strike solidarity fund, here it is); in the meantime spontaneous protests are still erupting pretty much every day and cops are getting burnt out (good! There are fun videos from yesterday's protests of cops accidentally tear gassing one another, or a police car accidentally running into another as people laugh and clap.) And yes some protesters are getting more extreme and destructive, but Macron is the one choosing to stand by his reform at all costs and let this country burn. And when I look at what we're being expected to tolerate and to normalise, I'm kind of proud that French people's gut reaction was "burn it all."

Some popular Twitter hashtags for the protests:

#ToutCramer - Burn everything #CensurePopulaire - People's no-confidence vote #MacronDémission - Macron resign #OnLâcheRien - We won't cede an inch.

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"Now that I'm working in the education system, if I walked into a classroom and saw someone teaching like Severus Snape, I would kill them."

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Don't forget that for snaters Snape switched sides to avenge Lily's death before Lily even died

Snaters reasoning for Severus reasons fo changing sides gets dumber and dumber the more u think about it .They really like to say that he never loved Lily , he just wanted to fuck her ...but are u really telling me that any man would sacrifice his entire life , give up on his side of the war (in this scenario he may even share their views  since lily was the ONLY reason, but he is willing to put even what he believes in aside , to get her ), which was  the wining  and by a big margin ( even if the books dint tell us that, the simple fact that just Voldemort dying is seen as a fucking miracle by the magical comunity should be enough evidence of that ), risking that Voldemort or Bellatrix  would torture him to insanity or fed him to rabid werewolfs to relive his worst memories , if he was ever discovered , for the side that would very likely put him in askaban anyway IF they ever won ….just to get into a woman pants ?!  If he changed side TO protect her then he loved her as much as u can love somone , that for sure !

The second reason he could have changed sides is because he believed that Voldemort and his side was evil and hated their views to such a point  that he sacrificed his entire life to destroy them from inside even if it meant joining people he hated…but again this is not it according to snaters since to them  he was the biggest blood purists to ever exist , since… gasp …he dared to not like Hermione ! 

So  the last possibility i can find for him doing this since lust dosent fucking make sense , and he still believes Voldemort was right on all counts , is that he felt remorce for putting Nevile and Harry in more danger that even having parents that are known members of the order put the into …but that would mean he dedicated his life protecting kids , which would make their clams of his unrelenting abuse of said kids kinda sound more idiotic than usual .

So which one is it then snaters? Because for the life of me I can't find any other resons for him changing sides  and fucking himself over , but whatever u choose it negates one of the main points of any snater discussion so choose carefully .

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The last paragraph and the Gumball image had me rolling

Just saw this on an old reblog from 2019 and thought it was funny💀

“He took pleasure in the pain and discomfort of others”

What? He was an ass but “he took pleasure” is just overdramatic atp…pls stop, y’all are such babies

“He ignored the cries of baby Harry to embrace lily”

1) that’s not canon, it never happened in the books

2) Even if it was canon, I don’t see how that makes him evil…you don’t know what was going through his head at that moment and it’s actually possible he didn’t even hear Harry. He was most likely in shock and/or disoriented. It doesn’t matter that they haven’t talked for years, she was still important to him. How about we acknowledge that Snape is human

“Tortured Neville because he had the audacity to exist as “the other boy”

Be SO fuckin fr rn. He didn’t torture Neville, you’re overdramatic. If anyone tortured Neville it was Minerva..but y’all not ready for that conversation. Nevilles boggart means nothing considering he said out his own mouth that it could have EASILY turned into his grandmother. If he’s sooo scared of Snape then why would it easily turn to his grandma? Because it isn’t a specific person he’s scared of, it’s a TYPE of person…and his behavior towards Neville had nothing to do with him being “the other boy”…idk if y’all noticed but Neville sucked ass in his very dangerous class…Snape is a bitch that’s hard to please…put two and two together.. at least Snape never sent Neville into physical danger multiple times- I wonder who did that 🤔🤨

“He deserved everything he got”

Yes. He totally deserved to be abused, neglected, bullied, used, lied to, under appreciated, traumatized, assaulted, etc. etc.

Daily reminder that if it weren’t for him, Harry would be dead right along with his blessed father 🥺 and so would everyone else. Snape saved the wizarding world…not James…not anyone else you guys love so much…it was Snape, and y’all can’t stand that shit✨

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Severus Snape as a good tyrant?

i’m the king of the castle and i’m the dirty rascal.

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There's something even more particularly fucked up about someone who tells real people to kill themselves (including real children) because of their fav character from a children saga

you know i could not care less about h*rry p*tter stannies in the year of 2022 but there is something particularly fucked up about people who defend snape, aka the guy who spent 6 books abusing children

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I would 😘

EDIT: PS for the OP: thank you for editing the tags.

wow, y'all are so right, we should completely forgive snape for joining a racist genocide squad because he has a sob story and switched to the side that wasn't mass murdering innocents and swore allegiance to the man that knowingly kept the child of the one friend he ever had in an abusive household after he realized he had a direct hand in the object of his obsession's murder yet bullied her kid and one of her best friends well into adulthood anyway! what a perfect man!

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@i-am-having-an-emotion

Snape taught for 17 years only. He was 39 yo when he died (21 yo when he started teaching), so he clearly was not as old as Alan Rickman and was not a bully "for decades".

Would you be interested in an essay that deals with the "bullying children" issue? Here, have a look if you want: Snape was not an abuser and was possibly the best reacher at Hogwarts.

People that like snape:

I would like to know why.

I personally don’t feel that snape was a good character but I’d like to know your reasons for liking him.

But please don’t give me some shit about “He was in love with lily,” or “He devoted his whole life to her,” or “He was so in love that he had a doe patronus.”

And I swear if I hear one “Always was such a cute line.” I might actually go insane

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Saving Harry's life should do the trick

Snape: Mr Potter-

Sixth year Harry: No, fuck you Snape.

Snape: ...I am your professor! You will show me respect!

Harry: I'll show you respect, when you do something that earns it.

Harry: Now, fuck off.

James and Sirius high-fiving up in Heaven: Yeah! That's my boy!

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Apparently it's expanded!

My understanding is that the book with the doe is the same as the other one but could be also an expanded edition? Does anyone know?

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Forgive Snape? Since when did Snape hurt you? Since was Snape a character to be forgiven by the reader?

Snape was a Death Eater at some point in his life, it is true. He was also not fit to be a teacher. But if there was nothing to appreciate in this character, there wouldn't be millions of fans voting him as a favourite character. If Snape's arc stopped at the badness he did as a young adult (2 years at most), then he wouldn't be appreciated as an example of redemption.

But there are elements to prove that. Spread across 17 more years of his life, for the reader to see.

No one claimed he was perfect. Except in the sense of perfectly flawed.

In any case, could you avoid posting in the main "severus snape" tag? Just tag it "anti snape". Obviously your post is not just about Snape as a character, but about people who like him and "forgive him" (which most of them don't, because there's no point in forgiving a man who doesn't exist).

wow, y'all are so right, we should completely forgive snape for joining a racist genocide squad because he has a sob story and switched to the side that wasn't mass murdering innocents and swore allegiance to the man that knowingly kept the child of the one friend he ever had in an abusive household after he realized he had a direct hand in the object of his obsession's murder yet bullied her kid and one of her best friends well into adulthood anyway! what a perfect man!

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He's badass and fun to read.

I wish I could find back the answers I wrote to people who asked the same question. Wait a bit, more Snape fans should come to answer you. And don't worry, it's not just because of him loving Lily, of Always, or the Doe Patronus (though I must say I love the Silver Doe).

Edit: Read this ;) Why we love Snape, or the character who was unkindly written

People that like snape:

I would like to know why.

I personally don’t feel that snape was a good character but I’d like to know your reasons for liking him.

But please don’t give me some shit about “He was in love with lily,” or “He devoted his whole life to her,” or “He was so in love that he had a doe patronus.”

And I swear if I hear one “Always was such a cute line.” I might actually go insane