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Drawn for Snapetober 2022, painted Jan. 24

7. Overthinking

Late late night at Hogwarts, ~95/97. He's fine. He just needs to go to bed.

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bored attendee seeks solace elsewhere. [x]

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this says a lot about Snape's character development for me. There are many parallels drawn throughout the series between Harry and Snape; obviously, they're very different characters but there are similarities too.

I think here Snape is talking about himself. The teenaged Snape we see in the Pensieve is very much like this- emotional, heart on his sleeve, easily provoked, a definite wallower in sad memories... weak. Adult Snape, though he retains some of these characteristics that do emerge in stressful moments (in PoA we see how angrily he reacts to Sirius's escape, for instance) on the whole is a great deal more thoughtful, reserved, calculating, measured.

I think that Snape at some point had to force himself to become this. I think he actually relates to Harry here, and is giving him advice based on personal experience. In my fic he begins to learn to control his emotions partially out of a desire to protect Lily; he's fully aware that she's his weakness (or really, his strength, viewed a different way) and that openly displaying any sort of emotion towards her at all makes her vulnerable to the likes of Avery and Mulciber, who will have the perfect weapon to get to him if they want to.

Severus doesn't have the advantages of his peers, he's not pureblood, he wasn't born into money. If he wants to join the Death Eaters and rise in their ranks, he needs to be subtle, cunning, careful. he can't afford to be careless and entitled like mulciber or bellatrix or even sirius. what he's got to offer isn't his name or his money, it's his sheer talent and cleverness. moving on:

When Voldemort decides to go after Lily this becomes even more important. Imo the reason why Voldemort believes that Snape only "desired" Lily is because that's what Snape told him. He lied to Voldemort's face and told him something probably disgusting tbh because that's the only way Voldemort would accept it and agree, if it was a selfish, callous request that Voldemort could understand. We can see evidence of this here:

Asking Voldemort to spare a mudblood because he was in love with her would likely not have gone over well- and as we know, Voldemort actually bore his request in mind, though obv didn't give enough of a fuck about Snape to follow through. Because although asking voldemort to spare her must have taken serious balls, Snape's mistake here was trusting someone inherently selfish to do something selfless for him.

Clearly he immediately realises this and goes to Dumbledore, which is when controlling his emotions becomes of paramount importance, because now he's working against perhaps the most highly accomplished legilimens of all time.

It's also interesting to me that Snape in this conversation is probably the character who is most forthright and informative with Harry in the whole of OotP until Dumbledore at the end; Harry actually learns a lot in this conversation. And Snape also kind of gives him credit which is interesting too:

like for Snape that's high praise lmao. A shame because if he wasn't so bitter (i.e. didn't wear his heart on his sleeve so much around harry) then he might have actually been pretty helpful to Harry and a decent teacher. Again, during the Occlumency lessons his unrestrained emotion brought up by memories of James is a hindrance. He defies Dumbledore's orders to teach Harry Occlumency because of his emotional response to SWM, as well as honestly doing kind of a shit job before that (by not being empathetic and teaching Harry in a way that would've been actually productive.)

At this point Dumbledore believes that Harry learning Occlumency and controlling his emotions is of vital importance; he turns out to be wrong about this. In Harry's case, it turns out to be his emotional nature that saves him- unlike Snape, who is the opposite. Snape's journey is about learning that some things are more important than his selfish need to give into his own emotions.

By DH Snape's learned this lesson fully; his old hatred for James doesn't stop him from doing what has to be done, from giving Harry the tools he needs. Even in the final moments of his life, he can look past James and see Lily in Harry- and, by giving Harry the information that leads to his self-sacrifice, he can let her go.

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‘Who would have thought you knew such Dark Magic? Who taught you that spell?’

— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Kicking off the Teachers... Professor McGonagall! Don't get me wrong, I love Minnie, but she is hard to draw... I struggled with poses and robes and the 'tude because she has tons of it :) However! I like how this has turned out. She is one classy older lady. Do you want to take a guess at who'll be next?

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no pram, no problem.

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draco staying with severus often was a winning situation for everyone: lucissa were able to get some downtime and could sneak in more date nights, severus would be forced to take care of himself and cook (and eat, if he wanted enough energy to chase after a hyperactive toddler) actual meals, and draco got exposed to people beyond the confines of wiltshire. severus’ neighbors didn’t even question the wee bairn’s visits and often came round to give him more choccy biccies than he deserved.

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“what will you give me in return?” is such an insane thing to say to someone who historically has Fuck All. even more insane to say when you are Aware that they have literally fucking nothing

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in potions class

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ディーンの森

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If you’re a Pro Snape or Severus Snape fan, please like this post!

I need to find and follow others just like me! ❤️❤️ I want my dash full of nothing but that. Thank you!

((It’s a bonus if you’re also a Snily fan!))

Also, feel free to follow my Snily Fanblog: @snilyarchive

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I made this for another someone who needed a smidgen of kindness (they're a big Snape fan, hence our grumpy star center-stage, here). But tonight, I was feeling super frustrated with myself and quite exhausted after yet another night of not being as productive as I had set out to be. Did I work for another 3 hours after working a full day, including 1 hr of driving time, then errands, then cooking dinner? Yes. Is my wrist inflamed? Yes. So I realized I needed the Snape Drawing, too.

Maybe one of you needs the reminder as well. Take a breather ♡

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wasn't happy with my birthday drawing. I was rusty af and just wanted to get something out in time, so I spent more time just... doodling. Happy 64th Severus :) even if here you look miserable

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During trial, after everything.

Snape survived AU

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Behold, my greatest creation

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Just my take on Snape. Your typical chemistry teacher, spends 8 hours/day in the dungeon.

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