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Well I read them mostly from the childs/Harrys perspective so for me it's about having that capable adulut figure who will do anything to protected and about who's needs you don't need to worry at all so I would assume you don't share my taste but with the disclaimer that this is menat for the asking person:

-"The last will and testament of Lily Evans", Lily made her own testament and named Snape as the gurdian should they die. Snape adopts Harry story. Compleated

-"Surprising Development", Sirius impulsivly disowns Harry when he realizes Harry is very diffrent from James. Snape is Harrys biological father type. On-going I haven't finished it

-I recommend potions and snitches as a fan-archive it's only Serveritus and you can sort by things that would trigger you, the relationship type between Snape and Harry etc. [with obviously no romantic ships on the severitus place]

Do you like severitus? Do you have any severitus fics recommendations?

I don't like Severitus much:( First of all, I personally am just not very interested in parental dynamics and kids-centric fics cause I am indifferent to children. In the few of those I read some time ago, I didn't really like how Severus' traumatic reaction to Harry wasn't adressed, and how he was forced into the position of a responsible adult without any space for his feelings or even actual consent from his side, because honestly, being a single parent for your abuser's child as a young adult with mental health problems and a job to do totally sounds like my boggart. Not saying all the Severitus fics are like this, that's just the impression I've got. For me, Sev handling it gracefully is unrealistic, Sev handling it ungracefully is traumatic to both, and I just don't think him carrying all this is fair. So unfortunately I can't offer any names, but maybe people who do like that trope can share♡

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Average Severitus moment

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I would've said Lily probably just was in that starting of war situation and James was showing around that he changed and maybe matched w her on competivness or other possible personality traits so w that she just decided she should give him a chance? They'd graduate soon and get jobs and so on. Time to grow up, leave the past and face the possibile war.

I would agree that how Petunia treats Dudley and Harry is probably some type of peojection as was her desire to have an only child. Dosn't excuse anything - she had to tell Dumbledore that she couldn't do it or step up.

Lily is not a good friend or sister. It's not a popular opinion, but it's true. Lily when she found out that the witch was treating Petunia badly. It's Lily's fault that Petunia treated Harry shitty.

Look, I’m not going to blame Lily for Petunia’s behaviour, because it really isn’t her fault—it’s their parents’ fault. It’s established that the parents were absolutely thrilled to have a witch in the family, and that Lily was something of a golden child. So it’s no surprise that, in their excitement over one daughter having extraordinary abilities, they ended up sidelining the other a bit. Petunia is clearly very envious of her sister, but that envy isn’t just about the magic—it’s also rooted in resentment over the way their parents treated them.

I mean, imagine your parents are always fascinated by everything your sister tells them, and anything you do is seen as mediocre or unremarkable. Imagine constantly living in her shadow because your parents make no effort to raise you both equitably despite your differences—instead, they highlight those differences in Lily’s favour. That’s not your sister’s fault, but of course, the resentment gets directed at her. Lily was probably thrilled to be the favourite, but you can’t blame a teenager for enjoying her parents’ attention and pride in her achievements. That’s why it really bugs me when people try to paint Lily as some sort of outcast, because not only was she popular at school, she was also the golden girl at home. So no, I don’t buy that narrative.

Canonically, Petunia moves to London to work as a secretary as soon as she can leave home. I think that clearly shows she wanted to get away from her parents and build her own life far from them. Their treatment of her also explains why she was so obsessed with making Dudley feel like royalty, why she gave him everything he wanted, showered him with praise, never set boundaries. That’s a classic case of overcompensating for childhood neglect. And it also explains why she mistreated Harry: it’s pure projection. She couldn’t risk Dudley ever feeling like he was anything less than the centre of attention, especially since she knew Harry would one day be a wizard and the whole story could repeat itself. So she went out of her way to make sure Harry seemed like less than nothing in comparison.

But again, this isn’t Lily’s fault. Lily was just the channel for all that frustration. The ones truly at fault, the ones who really screwed Petunia up, were her parents, who had no idea how to fairly manage raising and caring for both their daughters.

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Getting dysregulated because of making a test to show yes I read the secure work thing is pretty annoying

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this would be perfect as a severitus fanfic Introduction. (book 4, chapter 2)

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Snape probably murder imo too.

Lily something in the peruit of the order? I can imagine her getting so angry/scared over time that she would've done one or more things that wearn't justified by self-defence

Lily and severus headcanon about the worst things theyve done

I mean, severus must have killed people as a death eater, so…

As for lily, i’d like to think it was something she said to petunia, something perfectly tailored, since she knows her so well, to pinpoint all her insecurities. But that sounds really lame next to murder. But also I wouldn’t call fighting death eaters the worst thing she’s ever done. Hmmm maybe will have to come back to that one

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I see. Also interresting.

I love sow burn bc I love the abused/scared Harry being good at hiding it and wanting to hide it and the Snape good at reading people but to oberwhelmed by his own baggage to recognice it. It leaves so so many good pages of getting to know.

give me severitus where they 'bond fast' because Harry is desperate for family(and before anyone tries to defend Harry's honor, the guy wanted to live with Sirius after knowing the dude for maybe thirty minutes) and Severus sees him as a connection to Lily, but they end up using each other for their own gain and it crashes and burns but one side had already begun to see the other one in a different way

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I wonder how often Harry saw his mom make a patronus

And then the source of the light stepped out from behind an oak. It was a silver-white doe, moon-bright and dazzling, picking her way over the ground, still silent, and leaving no hoof prints in the fine powdering of snow. She stepped towards him, her beautiful head with its wide, long-lashed eyes held high. Harry stared at the creature, filled with wonder, not at her strangeness, but at her inexplicable familiarity. He felt that he had been waiting for her to come, but that he had forgotten, until this moment, that they had arranged to meet. His impulse to shout for Hermione, which had been so strong a moment ago, had gone. He knew, he would have staked his life on it, that she had come for him, and him alone ... At last, she came to a halt. She turned her beautiful head towards him once more, and he broke into a run, a question burning in him, but as he opened his lips to ask it, she vanished. Though the darkness had swallowed her whole, her burnished image was still imprinted on his retinas; it obscured his vision, brightening when he lowered his eyelids, disorientating him. Now fear came: her presence had meant safety.

Severus Snape y'all.

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I don't want to be those things but I want to project those things on someone bc that makes me feel better

I really can’t express how much I love the idea that Snape is not a nice, palatable victim of trauma. I love that he’s bitter and spiteful and that he can’t get over what was done to him. It’s raw and human and likely the most realistic thing to come out of those books.

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“You think he is mistaken? Or that I have hoodwinked him? Fooled the Dark Lord, the greatest wizard, the most accomplished Legilimens the world has ever seen?””

— Severus Snape in Half Blood Prince absolutely having the time of his life

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I feel like power is distributed more complex. For example you can heave the ability to speak Parsel, to see the future, etc. You can also be more quick to learn material (similar to us Muggle). Or work harder for that matter. And you can probably do magic to a higher or smaller degree, execute powerfull spells or fail at it.

Snape has some unique abilities. His desire for the dark arts means he has a lot of knowlege about them. Similar persumably with portions. He is also very skilled in creating new magic. I think that's really his strong-suit. He creates more magic then anyone we encounter and is even as a student frequently able to better portions recepeies behond what's standart. He's powerfull in the sense that with his ability to create new things he could make things others don't yet know counters for.

Bellatrix is powerfull because of her determinism. She won't be broken by Askaban and probably is way more powerfull in the strength of spells that she can do.

I'd say the wizzardung world is more complex then just "most powerfull". It's just a mix of diffrent strengths and weaknesses and the wizzards need to be cunning/nobel etc. in using there's to win whatever they want to succeed in?

Why is Snape so overrated in terms of skill? It drives me crazy when I see idiots who can't read say he's more skilled and powerful than Bellatrix. Where even is the evidence for that? Bella was the one Rowling called the Death Eater par excellence. She was the one described as being a witch of prodigious skill. She would easily destroy Snape.

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They wear taking OWLs. That means around 15-16. Sirius has been 16 for a good while since his birthday is in November, relativly shortly after term starts. Jameses, Remus are in march so they're 16.

Since Snapes birthday is in January that's at 16. Lilys is a couple days later also in January.

one thing is being an ass at 14 and one thing is being an ass at 35

people in their youth can be terribly, awfully immature but once they reach an age they should realise and figure out their actions

Clearly, you have no idea what it means to be a dysfunctional adult. When you hit 30 and have a shitty life, let me know if it’s that easy or not, love.

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I feel like I read that already (and I want to read it again and again as a part of a Severitus)

Flippant

“Snape?!?” his friends chorused incredulously. 

Harry shrugged. “He can't be worse than the Dursleys,” he said, trying for a flippant tone to hide his unease. He could think of plenty of ways a wizard who hated him could be worse than Muggles. 

“I'm sure Professor Dumbledore knows what he's doing,” Hermione said, but even she sounded doubtful. 

“He's barmy,” Ron argued, then said “Ow!” as Hermione kicked him. 

Harry forced a smile for them. “I'll write you, all right?” he promised, hoping that Snape would at least let Hedwig out to hunt. “I'll let you know how it goes.”

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hah idk was just doing warm-up sketches and this one got away from me so here's a hug

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Severitus sketches

I've had these in my drafts for forever

I wanna phase out this art style of mine

But harry is so fricken adorable here

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As a child he's poor.

As an adulut ...I mean we don't know what a Professor makes. It certainly comes with free room and bord (room and food). What means you save more of your salery for other things. They may pay towards expirmentation? If they want professors to explore there professions. I think they do but I don't know where my hc biases me too much. It could be that the later is a significant peark and why they're able to attract people who work in there respective filds...

Historically teachers would've been more in the middle-class, but socially well-estemed. I would assume that it's roughly like that?

it bothers me how snaters completely ignore severus' socioeconomic situation when analyzing the character. like, that's a fundamental point about him.

i live in a country where social inequality is extensive and i see how sects and radical groups take advantage of the economic and psychological vulnerability of young people and working-class adults to entice them.

i think harry potter is a work that deals mainly with class and class dynamics, but this issue is very neglected in most discussions.

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So I know McGonagall probably wears emerald green robes just because she likes it. But what if. She lost a bet with Snape