#and ofc they victimblame Snape

[danadiadea]

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This post isn’t even specifically about James and Snape’s dynamic, but more about Harry finding out the truth about his father yet Snaters still manage to victim-blame and spew nonsense to make James look good. They just can’t accept that their faves were assholes.

OH HOLY SHIT

THIS IS ABOUT JAMES POTTER

anon I literally love you for letting me see that because I swear I laughed out loud

this is. about. James Potter. "saved countless lives". "risked his own". they are fucking ridiculous, I can't believe this exists for real😭😭😭😭 like that shit when they just take every Snape trait and assign them randomly to Marauders/Slytherin Skittles for zero reasons is getting out of hand.

and comparing Ron being sometimes a little shit towards Draco and even HERMIONE to James undressing people without their concent and laughing at them for having worn out clothes?? Listen, Ron Weasley isn't my fave in the series, but I feel deeply offended at his behalf. People should stop that Ron bashing.

every time I see "James changed!1!1!!!!!" which is based on *checks notes* him stopping hexing people for the fun of it to date a girl, but still bullying her ex best friend and LYING to her about it, I lose a little bit of hope in this fandom. And he didn't want his two friends to become murderers?? What a great man after all. Like this is literally the lowest possible bar I've seen for a character. I guess he saved all those countless lives with that infinitely brave and selfless act.

[danadiadea]

filthy rich James and poor proletariat member Snape needs to take 0 posts, since this is literally in the HP books themselves, lol. maybe not billionaire, still deserved to be eaten.

YES GOD, this thing maxdibert says about Sirius – 100% correct. I hate his guts, truly, he gives me ick (that's largely personal), but you won't see me trashtalking him and his fans in a manner I can trashtalk James sometimes – because he has at least some redeeming qualities, yes, but also because he has reasons. at least I can explain to myself how his cognitive development and socialisation influenced his cruelty in ways he doesn't fully control. still awful, but explainable. with James – he is just awful for the sake of it.

a victim of bullying and abuse doesn't have to be weak to be a victim. they don't need to be "that helpless" to have their decisions influenced by social pressure and lack of safe spaces – because this is literally how people work. Snape's decision to join the DEs was largely affected by his traumatic experiences, including those with the Marauders, and I truly apologise if this obvious conclusion one can make if they read the damn books ruins Snape's charachter for you, because clearly having realistic, humane reasons to do bad things takes agency away from people.

and yeah, Snape is so obsessed with James for talking about him with his BFF after he and his friends (to Snape's belief) had almost fucking killed him, then painted James as a hero. guess what – he changes the topic from Mulcibier to the marauders, because Marauders are the main reason he wants to stick to Mulcibier suddenly on his 5th year! ofc when Lily is complaining about the friendships he started to form and says that he can't do that because they are bullies, he would want to refute her with the Marauders! they just have murder attempted him!!

it's James who strode into Severus and Lily's dialogue in the train and gave Snape a sexist nickname, while Severus and Lily chose to leave the conflict. it's James who decided to attack Snape the moment he'd seen him because Sirius was bored and threatened to publically undress him naked. It's Sirius who WATCHED Snape during an exam and reacted to him "like a dog to the rabbit". It's James who kept hexing Snape and hiding it from his girlfriend who wouldn't approve of it, because he was a "special case". But "Snape was obsessed with James". Sure.

Snape fans problem with James isn't even James, because I can confirm that before the Marauders fandom existed we'd barely talked about him – there is almost nothing to talk about, he's a bullying privileged garbage in the most uninspiring way possible. yk what did the fandom bring up though? victimblaming. statements like "James undressed Snape because Snape was a nazi and he deserved it" or "James changed so Snape's traumatic reactions as an adult are unreasonable and causeless" or "Lily married James so he couldn't be a bully" or even making up shit that Snape was the bully and the Marauders were queer SJWs icons. and Snape is a character that is largely shaped by his trauma, especially in his interactions with James' carbon copy son, so ofc all the tries to dismiss and deny that trauma ever happening are annoying as hell. Snape has trauma that James and his friend gave him. this is crucial for his character. you are the ones destroying him by trying to paint James’ actions like "not a big deal".

Isn’t that funny that Snape stans are obsessed w James as much as Snape himself was obsessed with him