#(in james’s case it’s snape and in snape’s case it’s james’s son)

[moonlightdancer26]

James Potter:

Actually saved Harry’s life ❌

Outran a hippogriff ❌

Choked someone with soap and exposed them against their will ✅

Is batman ❌

Spied on Voldemort and saved the Wizarding World ❌

Severus Snape:

Actually saved Harry’s life ✅

Outran a hippogriff ✅

Choked someone with soap and exposed them against their will ❌

Is batman ✅

Spied on Voldemort and saved the Wizarding World ✅

[sideprince]

Eileen Prince

I'm relentlessly curious about how a witch from Slytherin, a house that values cunning and ambition on paper, and bloodlines/nobility in its culture, ended up living in a muggle slum.

Unfortunately for me, she's a barely mentioned character written by an author who consistently fails to portray female characters with depth or dimension. The women in Harry Potter are portrayed as either maternal or villains, or, in Ginny Weasley's case, as redeemed by their masculine traits (because Rowling's Thatcher era feminism dictates that equality for women = emulating patriarchal ideas of manhood). About as much as you can expect from an author who's as unable to acknowledge the personhood of trans women as she is to write women as actual people. This leaves a lot of room for interpreting or delving into what Eileen Prince's life may have looked like, and how that would have affected her son's development.

There are three direct mentions of Eileen in the text :

“The picture showed a skinny girl of around fifteen. She was not pretty; she looked simultaneously cross and sullen, with heavy brows and a long, pallid face. Underneath the photograph was the caption: Eileen Prince, Captain of the Hogwarts Gobstones Team.”

HBP Ch. 25

“I was going through the rest of the old Prophets and there was a tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias Snape, and then later an announcement saying that she’d given birth to a" “ — murderer,” spat Harry.

HBP ch. 30

“Harry looked around: he was on platform nine and three-quarters, and Snape stood beside him, slightly hunched, next to a thin, sallow-faced, sour-looking woman who greatly resembled him.”

DH Ch. 33

(Shoutout to Harry James Potter, who didn't recognize Eileen's fifth year photo despite her resemblance to Snape, the teacher whose classroom he got his used Potions book from. Shoutout also to Harry James Potter who didn't connect the dots between the Prince's handwriting and Snape's, a teacher who regularly wrote instructions on the board. "I needed to make the plot work, ok?" - JK Rowling, probably.)

Other relevant excerpts:

“Snape staggered - his wand flew upwards, away from Harry - and suddenly Harry’s mind was teeming with memories that were not his: a hook-nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman, while a small dark-haired boy cried in a corner ”

OoTP Ch. 26

“Harry delved into his trunk and pulled out his copy of Advanced Potion-Making before getting into bed. There he turned its pages, searching, until he finally found, at the front of the book, the date that it had been published. It was nearly fifty years old.”

HBP Ch. 16

Supplemental material re: Gobstones from JK Rowling:

"...it remains a minority sport within the wizarding world, and does not enjoy a very ‘cool’ reputation, something its devotees tend to resent. Gobstones is most popular among very young wizards and witches, but they generally ‘grow out’ of the game, becoming more interested in Quidditch as they grow older.  ... Gobstones enjoys limited popularity at Hogwarts, ranking low among recreational activities, way behind Quidditch and even Wizarding Chess." [There's an additional sentence on the Harry Potter wiki's Gobstones page: "...it is also known as 'the thinking wizard's Quidditch.'"]

A few conclusions can be drawn from what little information we're given about Eileen:

She's described as "cross and sullen" around the age of 15, and as "sallow-faced, sour-looking" when she's older.

She's captain of the Gobstones club around her fifth year, so she likely marched to the beat of her own drum - given that Gobstones isn't particularly popular - and owns it proudly enough to take, or even seek out, a leadership role.

The sport is described as "the thinking wizard's Quidditch" which would imply Eileen was more interested in intellectual challenges and was clever (and can be paralleled with a young Severus' comment about "if you'd rather be brawny than brainy" to James Potter when they first meet on the Hogwarts Express).

Her marriage and the birth of her son are both announced in the paper, which might mean the family she came from was of some importance or note, or perhaps something else... but we'll get to that.

If we assume that Severus' secondhand copy of Advanced Potion Making was originally Eileen's (reasonable, though there is no textual evidence) then its publication date is likely around the time she was a sixth year, given that this particular text was specific to students beginning to prep for N.E.W.T. exams. Harry begins his sixth year in 1996 when the book is "nearly fifty years old," so we can assume Eileen was 16 years old sometime not long after 1946. Severus was born in 1960, which would mean Eileen was in her mid-late 20s at the time.

Her marriage was dysfunctional at best, abusive at worst. As per a Pottermore post that is still up on WizardingWorld.com: "...the desperately lonely and unhappy childhood [Severus] had with a harsh father who didn’t hold back when it came to the whip." Based on this, we can assume Tobias was abusive, and given Eileen's cowering as he shouted at her, she presumably feared him.

From these bits of information emerges the image of a woman who either had a surly personality, or at the very least was guarded, though perhaps just formal. There isn't really any difference in how her face is set when she's in an everyday setting like King's Cross, or when she's having her picture taken for the Gobstones Club. It's possible she was a stern, unsmiling person, but it's also possible - given that her wedding and child were announced in the paper - that she came from a family of some standing and was raised to conduct herself with hallmarks of British class, such as dignity and unaffectedness. After all, there are several wizarding families - such as the Potters - who are wealthy purebloods with social standing but are not part of the Sacred 28. Additionally, the Gobstones Club portrait would have been taken around the mid-1940s, when portraits were formal and their subjects did not often smile, and given that we see only a snippet of Eileen, we don't have enough information that she was unhappy or sour. It's also important to remember that we see her portrait and Snape's memory of her through Harry's perspective and, like his perception of Snape himself, this may convey Harry's biases.

We also know from the text that Snape had a house in a deserted part of Cokeworth, a fictional Midlands town that presumably had a collapsed milling industry, at the end of a street called Spinner's End. There's a great thread that goes into details about the kind of 2 up 2 down house it would have been, and we can assume that this is Snape's family home given that we know he and Lily grew up in Cokeworth. For all intents and purposes, the conclusion we can draw from this being the Snape family's home in the 60s is that they were working class and cripplingly poor. Most estates like this had been cleared by the 60s, and no longer exist today.

This begs the question: how did a witch from a possibly well-off family end up in an abusive marriage in an irrelevant slum?

Buckle up kids, we're leaving the world of textual references and veering into deep meta territory now. I won't label any of this as head canon because I'm not set on these interpretations, and am just drawing conclusions from the text, but some of it may be a bit loose even for meta.

If Eileen was 16 years old not long after 1946, then she would have finished school in the late 40s, possibly even 1950. While some people (including past me) posit the theory that Tobias may have been injured in WWII and his injuries debilitated him, forcing him to go on the dole and affecting his mental health, I'm increasingly skeptical of this theory. It would make more sense if Eileen had known him before he was drafted/enlisted and had committed to a relationship with him, which would then have changed when he came back from the war and was altered. If we assume Eileen's age based on the idea that it was her own copy of Advanced Potion Making Severus used, then she would still have been at school during WWII (which makes an interesting parallel with Severus' own experience of spending the bulk of the first wizarding war against Voldemort as a student at school).

I do think, however, that there's merit in the theory that Tobias suffered some kind of altering injury and that he wasn't necessarily abusive before Eileen committed herself to him. It makes little sense for a Slytherin graduate who was confident and self-posessed enough to be the face of an unpopular club to be drawn to a partner so abusive his shouts caused her to cower and who whipped his child freely. If, however, he was a charming, happy man when they met who suffered a life-altering injury, the trauma of which left him a shell of his former self, then someone like Eileen might stick around for the sake of the parts of his old self she can still see in him.

It's interesting that she didn't seem to use her magic to protect herself or her son, or even to dress her son in clothing that fit, but we know from the text that depression can cause a wizard's powers to wane:

“...it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen”

HBP Ch. 13 (Dumbledore talking about Merope Gaunt)

The fact that the Snapes retained the house in Spinner's End seems to indicate that they continued to live there even when the local industry dried up and the slum was cleared as workers were moved to other parts of the country where they were needed (presumably what happened given *gestures at British history*). The most likely explanation for this would be that Tobias wasn't able to work, and perhaps did suffer an injury, only it was at work, and not during the war. This would mean the family lived on the dole (ie. welfare) and also that he would have spent a lot more time at home. It would also explain his anger and frustration that led to abusive behavior (which isn't to say that disabled people are abusive by any means, but it would have been emasculating for a man who considered himself the breadwinner in the 60s, and chronic pain coupled with limited abilities would give anyone a short fuse).

Moreover, this living situation seems to indicate that there is no additional support coming from anywhere. Where is Eileen's family? Why were they not helping? There's no indication in the text that there is any connection with them at all. We can infer from Snape's memories that, as a child, he learned what he knew about the magical world from his mother. This implies that she talked to him about it a fair amount, and his conviction that he and Lily were going to Hogwarts well before they got their letters also implies that Eileen expected him to go there and was set on her son having a magical education, despite how little she seemed to use her own powers.

Severus knows a lot about the wizarding world as a child, including that prisoners are sent to Azkaban and that it's guarded by Dementors, Hogwarts' house structure and what to expect when he and Lily get there, and about the Statute of Secrecy and the laws around it. When Lily asks him if it makes a difference being Muggleborn, Severus hesitates before replying no, presumably because he's aware of pureblood bias being a part of wizarding culture.

Perhaps that's the reason Eileen's family doesn't seem to be in the picture. My own theory is that Eileen hadn't planned to commit herself to Tobias long-term, and Severus was an accidental outcome of an innocent tryst in which a young Eileen, an educated witch from a well to do pureblood family, was having fun slumming it with a working class muggle and ended up pregnant. While we don't know the wizarding world's attitude around pregnancy and abortion, we do know it's a conservative and classist society that parallels muggle British culture fairly closely, and that the late 50s/early 60s were a time when an out of wedlock baby would have been considered a disgrace.

Add to that the anti-muggle bias of a pureblood family and it sounds like Eileen was disowned her for her mistake (and don't @ me, but even though I know that not all Slytherins are purebloods, it does seem to be a persistent cultural value of the house reaching back to Salazar Slytherin himself, so Eileen's being sorted into it can reasonably be taken as an indication of her blood status). Perhaps the marriage and birth announcements in the Daily Prophet were put in by Eileen herself, if she was a woman from a family where this was customary. It may have been her way of letting her family know of the events, or even of asserting herself and even deliberately defying them, announcing to the whole wizarding world that a Prince married and had a child with a muggle. It makes sense that the girl who wasn't just in the Gobstones club, but became captain, would also say to herself, why shouldn't I have my marriage announced in the paper like everyone else in the family?

It's worth noting that mid-late 20s is pretty young to have a baby in the wizarding world, where the life expectancy and child bearing years are much longer than they are for a muggle. According to the Harry Potter wiki:

"Wizard life expectancy in Britain reached an average 137¾ years in the mid-1990s, according to the Ministry of Divine Health ... Wizards in general have a much longer life expectancy than Muggles, usually living two or three times as long as their non magical counterparts, some living even longer than that depending on circumstances. In addition, seeing as James Potter's parents had him "late in life,” witches likely have significantly longer childbearing years than Muggle women."

Although we see several characters in Severus' generation getting married and having kids not long after leaving school, there's a mention in the text that a lot of people were doing this during Voldemort's reign, as the fear he inspired made people more eager to get a move on with life since they thought they might die any day (I think Mrs. Weasley says this but I can't find the quote, @ me if you do). It's clear this wasn't the norm in the wizarding world. Eileen was a Slytherin, a house that values cunning, ambition, and strong wizarding heritage. Something must have gone very wrong in Eileen's life for her to end up having a child so young and living in a muggle slum.

And so it's possible Eileen Prince found herself pregnant and alone, having been disowned by her family to save face in light of her disgrace, and dependent on the only person she was still close to, the father of her child. It's the kind of storyline that Rowling would write, and it would parallel fairly closely the story of Voldemort's mother, thus adding another to the long list of similarities between Voldemort and Snape.

Lorrie Kim makes an interesting point when she talks about how Snape has a strong reaction to other people having a love life or romantic experiences (the context being Rowling's intention of his love for Lily being romantic and unrequited), but doesn't react particularly strongly to mothers sacrificing themselves for their children, whereas Voldemort does. Her insight, and I think it's a reasonable one, is that Severus accepts the idea of mothers making sacrifices for their children, whether it's Lily giving her life for Harry or Narcissa risking all she did to ask for his help in protecting Draco, because his own mother protected him from his father as much as she could.

There's a lot of room for interpretation on what Eileen's relationship with her son looked like, and what it says about her own state. She may have prioritized not angering Tobias to protect Severus, who as a child might have perceived her actions as a form of rejection. At the same time, she seems to have prepared him thoroughly for life in the magical world, perhaps in the hope that he would find his place in it and escape home. Perhaps she missed it and told him so much about it so she could live through her own memories.

The only time we see her argue with Tobias, in Severus' memory, she's cowering as he shouts. We know from JK Rowling that Tobias used corporal punishment liberally, which implies Eileen didn't stop him despite her magical abilities. We also see in the text, however, that while at school Severus stood up for himself against bullies and fought back, and that he was an exceptionally clever and powerful wizard. As an adult he was brave enough to face Dumbledore when he betrayed Voldemort, and later fought against Voldemort right under his nose (or lack thereof). So it stands to reason that at some point Severus began to stand up against Tobias too.

How much of that was Eileen's influence, or the result of Severus seeing her acceptance of her fate and rejecting it for himself, is hard to say. As for what happened to Tobias and Eileen that their house was Severus' by the mid-90s and they were nowhere in sight, I don't think there's enough information in the text to infer.

[runin-reads]

James/Lily vs James/Sirius: a case of accidental queer coding

Jily (James/Lily) is a pairing central to the HP universe in the sense that had they not been married, Harry Potter, the main character, would cease to exist and neither would his story as we know it. Yet we are left with only a few brief glimpses of their relationship in canon whilst other pairings are textually far more fleshed out– take Prongsfoot (James/Sirius), for example, who are frequently portrayed as The Duo, not just by those closest to them (Lupin) but by many others too such as McGonagall, Flitwick and so on. Harry himself could see how close they were during SWM in OOTP and this is someone who had a very limited time with Sirius and close to none with James. 

Queercoding is described as “the subtextual coding of a character in media as queer. Though such a character's sexual identity may not be explicitly confirmed within their respective work, a character might be coded as queer through the use of traits and stereotypes recognisable to the audience.” One character comes to mind when I think of “queercoding” and that’s Sirius Black. He’s estranged from his family, goes against the norms associated with his upbringing, there’s no mention of any ex-girlfriends and most notably he has intense love and devotion for his male best friend; James Potter.  At first glance, James had led an incredibly hetero-normative life by virtue of his wife and son, but through his relationship to Sirius there’s leeway to reach a queer reading of him as well. 

As recognised by countless characters and even Sirius himself, Prongsfoot come in a two-for-one deal:

“Do you remember who his best friend was?”  “Naturally,” said Madam Rosmerta, with a small laugh. “Never saw one without the other, did you? The number of times I had them in here — ooh, they used to make me laugh. Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter!”  “Black and Potter. Ringleaders of their little gang. Both very bright, of course — exceptionally bright, in fact…”  “You’d have thought Black and Potter were brothers!” chimed in Professor Flitwick. “Inseparable!” 

The use of the word “brothers” in the above quote is one reason why fans don’t interpret Prongsfoot as queer-coded and/or romantic. However, it’s important to note that Sirius never referred to James as a brother, and there’s no canonical proof to suggest that Flitwick was close to James and Sirius– he was their teacher, not their friend or confidant. He isn’t calling them “brothers” either but rather he’s saying that word to express how strong their bond was. Hence why I believe an exclusively fraternal reading of their relationship doesn’t hold much weight. 

They are, however, established as each other’s closest friend and most trusted confidant. 

“Harry had the distinct impression that Sirius was the only one for whom James would have stopped showing off.” “Potter trusted Black beyond all his other friends. Nothing changed when they left school. Black was the best man when James married Lily. Then they named him godfather to Harry.  “I persuaded Lily and James to change to Peter at the last moment, persuaded them to use him as Secret-Keeper instead of me.”  “Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed

On multiple occasions James and Sirius were described as a unit– The Unit– within their friend group. Lupin said they were “the cleverest students in the school.” They were the “ringleaders” of the Marauders; always on the same page and in agreement with each other.

“Then, with identical fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.” 

Even during their very first encounter, they quickly and effortlessly become a team. 

“Got a problem with that?”  “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy–” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.  James roared with laughter.

This excerpt from DH also neatly sums up the Marauders group dynamic:

“To Sirius’s right stood Pettigrew, more than a head shorter, plump and watery-eyed, flushed with pleasure at his inclusion in this coolest of gangs, with the much-admired rebels that James and Sirius had been. On James’s left was Lupin, even then a little shabby-looking, but he had the same air of delighted surprise at finding himself liked and included” 

Lily herself acknowledged Sirius’ importance in James’ life in her letter to Sirius, where she all but says that only he could lift James’ mood whilst the Potters’ were hiding from Voldemort’s forces. 

“James is getting a bit frustrated shut up here, he tries not to show it but I can tell — also, Dumbledore’s still got his Invisibility Cloak, so no chance of little excursions. If you could visit, it would cheer him up so much.” 

On the other hand, Jily is portrayed in a less compelling way for lack of better words. I spoke about this in my other meta but to summarise it briefly: Lily is James’ wife, the mother of his son and… that’s pretty much it. In the books they’re barely spoken about as a couple, unlike Prongsfoot who are always mentioned together as if they were a package deal– which they were, as recognised by practically everyone. That’s not to say Jily has zero textual backing, though it is far and few between.

“How come she married him?” Harry asked miserably. “She hated him!”  “Nah, she didn’t,” said Sirius.  “She started going out with him in seventh year,” said Lupin.  “Once James had deflated his head a bit,” said Sirius.  “And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it,” said Lupin. 

Conclusion

What we do know about James and Lily’s relationship is limited to the following: Lily disliked James because he and Snape were enemies, James developed feelings for her first, they began dating in seventh year once James had matured, they got married when they were nineteen to twenty years old, had a child together. The end. 

On the contrary, James and Sirius are constantly implied to be each other’s closest, most loyal friend; each other’s most trusted confidant. They are equals in every conceivable way. Both were popular, from wealthy backgrounds  and intelligent. Throughout the entire series Sirius’ only priority was Harry, James’ son. He went through unfathomable lengths to protect Harry: he was the first to escape Azkaban, he snuck into Hogwarts with all the dementors around and lived off rats during the GOF so he could be close to Harry, the last piece of James he had left. 

There’s also evidence to suggest Sirius was a narrative parallel to Snape. There are two adults in Harry’s life who sought to protect him due to their respective relationships with one of his parents. Snape was a double agent for Dumbeldore out of love for Lily; Sirius escaped Azkaban to protect Harry out of love for him, an extension of his love for James. 

All these factors are  why I believe that by not fleshing out Lily as a character and Jily as a couple, JKR accidentally queer-coded Prongsfoot. 

[starstruckwillows]

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fred weasley x slytherin!reader, pureblood!reader, platonic!sirius black x reader, hurt/comfort, angst, fluff, swearing

sirius black ensuring fred weasley doesn't make the same mistakes he saw many war-stricken kids make

there’d been a cruel edge to his words that he hadn’t quite meant.

fred’s scathing indictment of your family wasn’t any different to the things you usually said about your kin, and it didn’t bother you for others to agree. but to be part of that perception was probably your worst fear.

you’d been so excited turning up at the doorstep of grimmauld place, suitcase in hand, bright beam gracing your face.

fred had frowned. he’d been ignoring the way your smile made him feel for a long time.

“why are we having death-eaters round for christmas dinner?”

molly had scolded her son then, “george! i mean, fred!”

he’d rolled his eyes, mumbling, “might as well get her whole family out and kill some muggles for the christmas spirit.”

it was the association. your family were one way, you must be too.

maybe that’s how it was for the weasleys, at least four generations of ginger gryffindors shooting for the stars in their respective fields. ministry, dragons, pranks, quidditch.

maybe that’s how it looked for you, at least four generations of slytherins serving whichever tyrannical supremacist reigned at the time.

you found a lot of your time was spent trying to convince people that wasn’t you. but gina lomotey, whose dad had once punched professor snape, didn’t have to walk around assuring people she didn’t attack teachers. and kosi berry, whose parents had a short lived music career, never had to explain she had no interest in singing.

reene west’s mum hijacked a broom race, ford green’s dad did a stint in muggle prison, carson denny’s eldest brother lived full time in st mungos due to an unhealthy obsession with lions.

none of them faced half the crap you did for their bloodlines.

sirius had come to see you, heard you vent about this once again.

“and it’s almost like... i mean i’m not saying you had it easier, you didn’t, it was worse for you in different ways. but, it’s like i have to work so hard to prove i don’t have my families prejudice, because i am a slytherin. you had the argument of a different house to help your case, in school anyway. but i wear the same colour robes my family did, so people never believe me.”

somehow your feelings for fred were brought to the surface of the conversation. maybe that’s what made it harder.

“i’m so tired of having to make them believe me. i’m not a bad person.”

so you didn’t grovel, and try to prove your innocence, because you were well and truly tired of being pre-judged. it wasn’t as if the two of you met on a battlefield. sirius had invited you here. dumbledore approved, he trusted you. you’d never given fred a reason to dislike you.

the boy in question, banished to the other side of the house by his own anger (and shame), was glowering at a wall.

his mum told him his response had been impolite. george told him he was smack out of line.

he knew they were right.

especially when sirius, a man fred had got on with well, had knocked on the door, greeting him with a slight scowl.

“i want you to apologize.”

no beating around the bush.

“i’m not sorry.” lie. you sound like a petulant child.

“yes you are.”

fred blinked.

“i am old enough to recognize the feelings of teenagers. i spent seven years watching my friends fall in and out and in again with love. i watched james pine for lily, i watched them fight. i watched marlene and dorcas take five years to get over their differences.”

fred jested, "sounds creepy.”

sirius smiled, but continued his story, “do you know what marlene and dorcas’ main difference was?"

he shrugged.

“marlene was a gryffindor, dorcas a slytherin, and it took them a good fraction of their lives to move past that. they died young. they spent more time denying their feelings for a school, house rivarly, than the time they got to spend loving each other. we’re approaching a war again, kid. don’t repeat their mistakes. take it from me.”

fred remained uncharacteristically silent for a few minutes, and although it was unsettling, sirius stayed. it was clear the boy had questions.

“your family were death-eaters.”

sirius nodded.

“but they rejected you, for being in the wrong house.”

“correct.”

“if... you’d been a slytherin, and they accepted you... would you have rebelled? or would you have become a death-eater.”

sirius shrugged, “i know why you’re asking, but i have no answer for you. if i was in a different house, i would have a different character, and any alternate character would mean very different decisions. all i can tell you is i know her. you don’t, yet. she is not her bloodline. she's cunning, and ambitious, but her ambition is not to participate in genocide. talk to her. you might be surprised at what you find.”

fred had made up his mind. sirius was right, and he wanted to know you. he wanted to see your stupidly pretty smile, he wanted to cause it, and he wanted to know your favourite things. he wanted to know what made you feel, what made you sleep. he wanted to talk to you.

which proved incessantly difficult, because you were avoiding him like dragonpox. every once in a while, he would catch your eye and you'd blink rapidly before looking away, fiddling with your sleeves.

christmas day rolled around a few days on, and fred still had yet to successfully get you alone. as everyone begun unwrapping their presents, he was only staring at you, waiting for a reaction, hoping you'd know the unlabelled gift was from him.

you did, eyes widening and shooting up to find him in the room, visibly taken aback.

“do you like it?” he mouthed, tilting his head as the firm grip of insecurity tightened his chest.

with your lips slightly parted in surprise, you nodded your head. the same feeling lay at the base of your heart, wondering if it was going to turn out to be a prank.

he jerked his chin towards the kitchen, question in his eyes, and tried to not take your hesitation to heart. especially as you stood up and walked his line of sight. when he was sure nobody else was paying attention, he followed you.

“hey...” he rubbed the back of his neck, the awkwardness between you heavy in the air.

but fred was fred and he still kept eye contact, a steady voice, an easy stance.

“i’m sorry.”

you shrug, “okay.”

the word is uttered so nonchalantly, as though your stomach wasn’t erupting with unruly butterflies.

“do you... could you forgive me?”

“maybe. if you mean it.”

he nodded, “i do. i’d like to know you, actually know you, not think i do.”

“i’d like that.”

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Severitus/Sevitus Fic Rec

Thought I’d share my own personal fic list that I’ve complied over time featuring Snape and Harry developing some kind of father-son relationship, all the way through either bio-dad, adoption, guardian or mentorship. All of these fics are COMPLETE because after OME leaving me on the world’s biggest cliff hanger and losing the fic for many months because I’m an idiot, I have serious WIP trust issues. They’re also usually really long because I love angsty, slow-burn fics.

I started taking in-depth notes while I read through fics a while ago so that I would NEVER lose a favourite fic again (the title of one of my favs is in Latin, so I never remember what it’s called). And also because I have a terrible memory so remembering what happened in each fic is quite difficult for me. Assuming I know how to count there should be over 16 fics listed here.

I’ve also rated each fic out of 10 and added a couple of notes for each fic (I didn’t add any with a rating of 5 or lower cause these are meant to be recommendations not a reading log). I’ve put them in order of how much I liked them, 10 and 9s being my equivalent to an Outstanding, 8 and 7 an Exceeds Expectations and a 6 an Acceptable.

TW: As is usually the case with Severitus, ALL of these fics have some degree of child abuse in them, courtesy of the Dursleys, with various degrees of intensity.

O Mine Enemy By Kirby Lane 10/10

You’ve probably already read this one because it is legendary in the Severitus genre and a staple for any fic list. In the event that you haven’t, you SHOULD read it ASAP. Starts summer of sixth year. 

TW addiction/substance abuse

Victus per Reproba Monumentum By firefly5151 9/10

For a long time I didn’t read anything that had Sev as Harry’s bio dad, it felt implausible, OOC and just was not as good as the guardian/mentor trope. That is until I read this fic, and now the bio-dad trope is my favourite. This fic is the Snape of Severitus, there are a LOT of flaws but I love it anyway. The plot is a bit questionable, it has manipulativeDumbledore (which I don’t like in fics) and Ron and Hermione pretty much forget Harry exists. BUT the emotional journey is amazing, and really angsty. Starts during summer of 6th year.

The Subterfuge By Murai-Sakura 9/10

This fic is on the newer side having been written in 2020. My first time reading this fic I had a few mixed feelings about it which made me reluctant to read it again despite really liking it. Reading it again for the second time I can’t understand what past Ash’s problem was because it was magnificent. Granted I remember it being darker than it actually is (it may have been due to me reading The Hunger Games in-between, who knows). I’m rambling, in short I think I liked this one a little more than A Year Like None Other. The plot is unique enough that the story doesn’t feel like your reading a rehash of every Severitus fic ever while still hitting the emotional points necessary for a satisfying fic. It’s definitely more mentor than father figure and is set during fifth year so watch out for Umbridge.

TW suicide attempt and graphic child abuse 

A Year Like None Other By aspeninthesunlight 9/10

Another classic whose reputation speaks for its-self, written before HBP came out and is also insanely long. I’ve actually never read the sequals either because one was enough for me and it’s in Draco’s pov. It also has the added bonus of brother bonding between Draco and Harry. Set during 6th year. 

TW self harm and graphic torture

Perception is Everything By Kendra James 8/10

This was one of the first few Severitus fics I ever read so it has a very special place in my heart despite the plot being a very standard Severitus setup. Set Christmas 6th year, Snape finds out about the Dursleys abuse when Harry gets sick over Christmas break.

You've forgotten who I am By CastlePheonix 8/10

I’ve only read this one once so I’m taking past Ash’s word for it. Set during 5th year, a what if Snape actually hit Harry with the jar after the Pensieve incident. Harry gets temporary amnesia and spends some time in Spinner’s End with Snape. 

TW addiction/substance abuse

Whelp & Whelp II - The Wrath of Snape By jharad17 7/10

The standard run down; the Dursleys are dicks, Sev finds out. This is pre-Hogwarts (7 years old) so you know Harry is going to be adorable and clingly. Vernon has Harry tied up in the yard like a dog.

Namesake Necklace By WiCeBa 7/10

This fic is a little more recent I think. Set summer before the start of 5th year, Harry and Dudley are de-aged. This ones quite the adventure and Sirius is still alive so you know there’s gonna be a fight over Harry.

What I Must Ask You To Do By VeraRose19 7/10

Set at the end of GOF and continues into 7th year. This story is not just a Severitus but also an exploration of the blossoming friendship between Severus and Sirius as they co-parent Harry together. The story is far fluffier than it is angsty and relies quite heavily on canon for plot whilst also taking out the adventure and death toll. It’s more a fluffy, canon, best case scenario than an angsty, slow-burn fic.

Emerald eyes By JadeSullivan 7/10

I cannot remember this one at all so once again I’m taking past Ash’s word for it. This is set during 2nd year and does feature corporal punishment.

Prisoners By Whitetail 7/10

Harry is de-aged to 4 and Sev has partial paralysis. So they stay at a little cottage by the sea. Hermione features quite heavily in this one, both her and Harry end up with Sev gaining guardianship of them.

To Recollect the Future By oliversnape  7/10

When Harry is hit with the killing curse in DH Harry and Sev are sent back to first yeah. Harry and Sev pretty much spend the whole fic Horcrux hunting, its a fun bonding experience.

In plain sight & Close to the Chest By waitingondaisies 7/10

This is always a fun one. Set during 6th year, Sev found out as a spy so Albus turns him into a 16 year old Gryffindor and gives him an embarrassing name. Seriously Albus, Alfonse “Eli” Hopkirk, really? 

Time Left Today By gzdacz 7/10

Sev and Harry are on the run after Quirrell is killed by an 11 year old. The road trip is quite fun although I don’t really like the ending too much though.

The Trouble with Polyjuice By LilyEvansDouble 6/10

2nd year. Features Snape as Harry’s biological father after the Polyjuice incident.

Summer of Bonding By Magica Draconia 6/10

This one is set after PS as the Dursley never pick Harry up from Kings Cross so Harry stays with Snape. Snape collects horse figurines in this one and is very heavily featured in this story. So its a bit too niche for my liking but otherwise still a good read.

And that’s all I got. I’ll probably come back to this list (yeah cause I forgot to put in tags) and add more fics as I read them. (When I add new fics I’ll reblog this post with a change log so you don't need to read through the list again to figure out what’s been changed.) My TBR is usually just as long so ... to forever be continued.

[lxvxadrusxlla]

Why are all Slytherins "evil"?

I was re-reading Harry Potter in the last period. Awesome experience, as always. I mean, HP is literally my favourite book series: it helped me to grow up and find my own identity, it made me feel less alone, it taught me how to dream and it introduced me to the world of fandoms in the internet.

Despite many problems of the series (narrative and ideological), I love Harry Potter with all my heart and I will never stop to recommend it to young readers.

But, you know, there's always something that really, really bothers me with Harry Potter. Well, yes, we could discuss about the problematic aparth- uhm, separation between Wizards and Muggles, or about the fact that Elves slavery is pratically... justified (?), and there's no solution for the Elves question in the final book.

But these topics are too much complicated for a random tumblr post, and we are on the internet, I don't want to start a war about politics, etc. :)

No, I want to complain about a certain thing that I really can't understand and it bothers me everytime that I read the books or watch the movies.

WHY ARE ALL SLYTHERINS EVIL? JOANNE, I NEED AN ANSWER, BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Why they have to be so mean everytime? Being ambitious and shrewd doesn't mean "bad person".

Also, why are they all racist? And why it seems that all of them are sons or daughters of Death Eaters, or in any case their parents share Voldemort's ideology?

Are you saying that ALL SLYTHERINS are pureblood and racist? ALL OF THEM came from a family of Death Eaters? So there are not cunning, ambitious and shrewd people between halfbloods, Muggle-Borns and healthy pureblood families. That's weird.

Oh, yes, and in the first book Slytherins are described as all ugly. Literally.

So, yes, Slytherins are evil and ALSO ugly. Again... why?

Yes, there are some exceptions.

The first one is Severus Snape: now, I love Snape, he's such an interesting character and I feel sorry for his past; the scene in which he gets bullied is so hurting to me (I was bullied myself so I can understand the anger and that feeling of weakness), but... he was not a good person. He has been dominated by hate for his entire life and he never overcomed his past. He was a Death Eater for a period. He bullied Harry, Hermione and Neville for no reason. And sometimes he was so cruel that I think his behaviour is a part of the "All Slytherins are evil" mentality.

Like, Snape has deceived the Dark Lord for years, he is a genius in Potions, DADA and Occlumancy, he's supposed to be one of the smartest characters in the series. So... why has he never understand that Harry is not like James?

"Because he was blinded by hate", you can say.

Ok, but when he saw Harry's memories in the fifth book, why didn't he change his mind?

"He had to act cold because he was pretending to be still loyal to Voldemort."

OK, but there's a difference between being cold to someone and being openly cruel. Snape's behaviours are often illogical and contradictory with the idea of his character, and I can only think that the author depicted him in that way not only to write a "grey character", but also to be loyal to the tradition of "Slytherins are evil".

Next? Oh, Regulus Arcturus Black, one of my favourites. Yes, he was a Slytherin, he was a hero who betrayed the Dark Lord for the sake of Wizarding World. However, his character still has many negative traits: he was a Death Eater, and he shared the racist ideology of his family for years. Again, not bad, but not a good example.

Narcissa Black. She saved Harry, but she is still a racist woman who is married to a Death Eater, and she failed complitely to educate her son.

Her sister, Andromeda Black. Yes, she is the only example of "good Slyhterins" who is not racist or who has not connections with Death Eaters. So, yes, she is good, but there's another problem in this case: she appears once in the whole series, she is barely a character!

Horace Slughorn, my love, he is good, yes. BUT the main trait of his character is negative: he loves to collect the best students like they were trophies.

Draco Malfoy. He is a useless bully for five books, then he changes but even when his character became deeper and more interesting he remains a coward.

Sorry Draco's fans: I like Draco too, but it's true.

I often see people talk about "Draco's redemption", but honestly I don't see this redeption. Simply he became a decent person, but he is not go through an actual process of change. He is mean, but he never wanted to kill, he never wanted war, so he tries to not get in the way of Harry and his allies, that's it. This is not a redeption, this is an awareness.

There are also Albus Severus, Scorpius and Leta, but they are not characters from the original series, and they were created AFTER all the criticism about the fact that all Slytherins are depicted as bad, so I won't consider them.

It's a shame, you know? Because one of the most important themes in HP is supposed to be INCLUSION. So, why, WHY, nobody, even the "good characters", try to understand or socialize with Slytherins?

Why, in the SIXTH BOOK, I have to read about Harry and Neville who don't greet their Slytherin schoolmates beacuse "Gryffindors and Slytherins don't talk, that's it." Yes, Harry says that.

This is the reason why I love those fanfiction in which we can see Harry and other characters interact with Slytherins. Because this is what I want to see at Hogwarts: inclusion, no prejudice, brotherhood between the four Houses.

I don't know why, but nowdays I still see some "fans" of HP criticize or have prejudice about Slytherin house and I'm like: "After all this time?"

Don't answer "Always" this time, Slytherism (?) has to finish, once and for all.

So... Yes, peace and love between the Houses, thay are all great in their own way!

[I also hope that my English was comprehensible, I'm not that good, but I'm trying my best.]

[the-most-sane-hp-fan]

No need to be scared my darling // A.S.P

warnings; reader is a pureblooded Slytherin. also this was entirely written just because I needed to indulge myself.

summary; Albus is fearful of being in Slytherin but mama is there to make him a little less scared

Kings cross was loud, louder then you remembered. You supposed that was because it had been awhile since you had been there. You certainly counted a month and a half ago when you went to pick up James for the summer as awhile.

People were rushing past, eager to get on with their day to day lives. Most of the people in your eyesight were muggles, yet you still managed to catch sight of some students with the Hogwarts crest on their cases.

"Are you ready son?" Harry, your husband asks as you stop by the entrance of platform 9 and 3 quarters.

"As ill ever be," He whispered, it was loud enough for the two of you to hear, just barely though.

"ok so run straight at the wall, that will get you to the platform. Y/n, maybe you and James should show him first." Harry suggested, holding onto little Lily-Luna's hand.

James took no time in running straight through the wall. Leaving Albus amazed. His mother soon following behind him.

"Dad, James said it hurts, was he lying?" Albus's young sister calls out fearfully.

"Don't worry my princess, your brother is telling fibs,"

"promise?"

"I promise"

Albus stares at the red brick wall, still uncertain.

"C'mon Al, we will run together"

Harry places his hand on Albus's trolley with all his luggage and counts to three before shooting forward at the wall.

Albus closes his eyes, in fear of hitting the wall.

A few seconds later his sister's amazed 'wow' was what got him to open his eyes.

Just like before people were still busting about on the platform, waving and seeing their children off. Some people were even crying, knowing they wouldn't see their kids again until Christmas or perhaps even the following summer potentially.

"Lily why don't you go say good bye to James," Y/n said noticing the look in her sons eyes. Recognizing it from when he was a little thing who would always look over to the darkest corner of his room in fear. scared of all the evilest creatures coming to get him.

It certainly didn't help that James liked to wind his brother up.

"No need to fear little one. I am always here for you, remember we got you an owl for a reason, I expect at least one letter every week." his mother jokes and he smiles, a little.

"What am I gonna do if I'm not in Gryffindor? I'll be the first potter to be a failure, a non Gryffindor" He shakes his head at the thought.

"you know I always wondered why your father wanted to name you after Snape, he was one of the greatest headmasters Hogwarts had seen and he was a Slytherin. a true talent. Baby, if you're meant to be in Slytherin, then you're meant to be there, and if you are I have no doubt you will do some great things." you smiled as Albus hugged you before hurrying to catch his train before it left.

"oh and Albus my darling," he turns at your voice, waiting for what you had to say.

"Who ever said you'd be the first Potter to be in Slytherin house," the words were vague but he seemed to understand, you certainly notice his eyes widen.

"Have a good school year my darling and you tell me if James cause you any trouble alright my love?" Albus nods with a big smile on his face as he rushes to find a place to sit on the train.

You come to stand by your friend, Mara Malfoy, who was waving her son off as well. Harry and Mara's husband Draco came to join you both soon after. Both also watching their sons take their first steps into their journeys of becoming great wizards.

[greenerteacups]

you cannot tell me minerva mcgonagall did not watch draco- son of narcissa black, cousin to sirius black- get sorted first year and think “ah fuck here we go again.” You CANNOT tell me she doesn’t brag about him to snape especially since he’s second in the year. I love that she’s obviously proud of him- especially when he saved harry from falling and said “hat was right”. i genuinely think about that line so often. roughly 85% percent of the harry potter series can be summed up by “hat was right”

oh god, you're tempting me to write a oneshot that's just Minerva's perspective of Draco's Sorting. it would be so good. because yeah, she knows exactly who he is, and as soon as it goes "gryffindor," she's thinking oh god fucking damnit. i didn't get paid enough to raise the first morally stunted under-socialized genius Black heir, and i'm sure as fuck not being paid enough to raise the next one. like, she will, but she's not happy about it. (she is, actually. she's super happy about it. especially since she gets to watch the absolute spit of Lucius Malfoy smirks his way up to the podium stool, sit down, and promptly get it wiped straight off his face. she also gets to see Severus's reaction to all of this. the part of minerva's head that is not flipping over all the furniture in her brain in a silent rage-induced war tantrum wants to kiss the hat full on the mouth.)

and then it WORKS?? and it turns out that this slimy little sonuvabitch falls in with harry FUCKING potter and his crew, and ends up throwing his life on the line MULTIPLE TIMES for his sake, miraculously bullies the Longbottom kid up to snuff in Potions, and spends half of her class muttering and passing notes to her teacher's pet best student, Ms. Granger, a muggle-born, and severus comes into the teacher's lounge like once a week bitching about how he's having to speed up the curriculum because Fucking Malfoy and Goddamn Fucking Granger keep reading ahead, and she gets to gloat for days — oh, i'm sorry, did the class rankings come out this week? hmm? what was that the Nott boy got on his Charms exam? an E, you say? how............. respectable. (and that's before we get started on the Quidditch of it all. when Oliver Wood turns in his 1993 team roster for Head of House approval, the Tower cat doesn't stop purring for days.)

at the end of the day, minerva mcgonagall would never go so far as to describe her relationship to her students as familial — she's far too professional for that. however the students feel about her, she firmly maintains respectful boundaries and urges them to prioritize their own families (knowing that she can't be the mother many of them want.) and yet — and yet — you know what, she sees that little blond bastard take a forty-foot dive for a boy his father would've tried to have killed, right there in front of every gryffindor and slytherin there is, and when she gets close enough to hear his loud whinging about his (self-inflicted) broken arm she swears she hears the ghost of Sirius Black barging into Transfiguration bitching about James Potter's six o'clock quidditch practices.

she writes narcissa malfoy a very long letter that night. she doesn't send it, but she keeps it. just in case.

[sofoulandfairaday]

I'm so sorry but sometimes I feel like the Harry Potter fandom tries too hard to make certain characters look too cool. Case in point: the Slytherins. As a Slytherin myself I'm biased to say it's the coolest house, yes, BUT

Draco Malfoy was a simpering little coward, he was NOT a cool, cigarette-smoking Little Lord with a muggle shirt on (that's all Tom Felton)

Theodore Nott is described as "weedy", "stringy," and "rabbity" and yet somehow he always looks like a god in fanfictions. He wasn't even that close with Draco, there's no indication they were friends.

Regulus Black was NOT a poor misunderstood little soul, he was the less attractive brother, less charismatic, he was a blood-supremacist, and he was a Voldemort fanboy all throughout Hogwarts (he had a room full of newspaper clippings of him and all the DE attacks!). And yes, he did redeem himself, but much like Snape he probably wasn't that good of a person.

Pansy Parkinson is described as ugly, and stupid, and she's also quite nasty and a stereotypical mean girl.

This is not to say that these characters shouldn't be explored in the fandom, but I would love to see more realistic depictions of their flaws and shortcomings because they feel more like real people in the very limited lines they have in the books than in all of the fan meta/etc. written about them.

I would love to explore them more but I hate when they are just name-holders for people's Mary Sues and OCs.

Give me resentful, mean, small, bitter Theodore Nott who's highly individualistic and resentful of Draco Malfoy because he's not that much better of a wizard and only gets on in Slytherin house because of his surname. Give me neo-Death Eater Theo Nott in book 7 who rejoices like the others at the Malfoys' humiliation.

Jegulus has somehow become a trend??? All right, even as a crack!ship it has so much potential for drama. Give me a good reason why James Potter is attracted to Sirius' hateful, resentful little shit of a brother and the drama that comes from that because Sirius would never forgive him if he ever found out. And give me a bitter and angry Regulus that only gets close to James to get back at his brother/to get info on Voldemort's behalf/for whatever reason and then James grows on him? He can't decide if he likes him or hates him.

And by the way, let's quit it with the abusive relatives in Slytherin. I'm pretty sure Walburga was but not because she cursed her children. Emotional manipulation while being perfectly convinced you're in the right is a trap into which even good parents fall, in the real world. Draco Malfoy's parents were anything but abusive, I don't even think they were cold towards their son. Yes, they were racist jerks, but they truly loved their child, Lucius too.

[jfleamont]

I think it's noteworthy how Sn*ly is all about Sn*p* changing for/because of Lily and how a lot of Jily fans don't like the idea of James changing only for/because of Lily. [I just saw your post talking about James and Lily in sixth year]

Hello! This is something I've thought about a lot.

As I said in the post (here it is), there is a substantial difference between changing for yourself and changing for someone else.

Now, there's nothing wrong with someone inspiring you to change for the better: people can and should be a positive influence on you, especially the ones closest to you. This is not Snape's case in my opinion. Lily tried to stop him from pursuing the dark arts, she showed there was an alternative, but he refused to listen. When she made the choice to cut him out of her life, he didn't accept it and kept harassing her. When he found out Voldemort wanted to kill the Potters, he asked him to spare Lily, and only Lily.

Did he behave differently after she died? You'd think he'd learn a thing or two from the love of his life, like compassion and kindness. Like being good without an ulterior motive. But no, he heavily bullied kids - and not just any kids, we're talking about his students - and was incredibly biased towards Harry because he was his enemy's son. He criticised James' bullying but he did the same thing even as an adult. Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.

It can be argued that Snape was just pretending to be horrible because he couldn't let his cover be blown. And it can also be argued that he grew fond of Harry but never showed it. Let's assume all of this is true... Am I right in thinking that being so hideous came way too easily to him? And what's more important, are we sure he didn't want Voldemort dead purely because he had killed Lily? After all, we have plenty of evidence that he's extremely prone to holding grudges. It makes sense that he'd want to get revenge against the man who didn't spare Lily's life.

We do not know if he had other reasons, but even the memories that Harry sees in the pensieve reinforce my theory. I'll play devil's advocate and not take into account the things he said or did as a Hogwarts student because many people think that he was just being an immature teenager. So let's see what we have:

“If she means so much to you,” said Dumbledore, “surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?” “I have—I have asked him—” “You disgust me,” said Dumbledore, and Harry had never heard so much contempt in his voice. Snape seemed to shrink a little, “You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?” Snape said nothing, but merely looked up at Dumbledore.

And then:

“The Dark Lord will return, and Harry Potter will be in terrible danger when he does.” There was a long pause, and slowly Snape regained control of himself, mastered his own breathing. At last he said, “Very well. Very well. But never—never tell, Dumbledore! This must be between us! Swear it! I cannot bear... especially Potter’s son... I want your word!”

But this is when the pain is still fresh, right? Maybe he wasn't thinking clearly. Let's see another passage, ten years later, during Harry's first year, where Snape is 31:

“—mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rulebreaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent—”

This is how Snape describes Harry to Dumbledore, the one person he didn't need to lie to, the only person who knew he was a double agent. But then again, this is just at the beginning, he didn't know Harry that well. Maybe he'll change his mind in the future? Let's take a look at the scene where Dumbledore asks him to kill him:

“If you don’t mind dying,” said Snape roughly, “why not let Draco do it?” “That boy’s soul is not yet so damaged,” said Dumbledore. “I would not have it ripped apart on my account.” “And my soul, Dumbledore? Mine?”

Sounds like he doesn't want to be the cause of yet another person's death. Understandable. Snape isn't being selfish at all, no. He's worried about his poor soul, who cares about the soul of 16 year old Draco, am I right? Maybe this next passage will redeem him:

“Why? You aren’t trying to give him more detentions, Severus? The boy will soon have spent more time in detention than out.” “He is his father over again—” “In looks, perhaps, but his deepest nature is much more like his mother’s. I spend time with Harry because I have things to discuss with him, information I must give him before it is too late.” “Information,” repeated Snape. “You trust him... you do not trust me.” “It is not a question of trust. I have, as we both know, limited time. It is essential that I give the boy enough information for him to do what he needs to do.” “And why may I not have the same information?” “I prefer not to put all of my secrets in one basket, particularly not a basket that spends so much time dangling on the arm of Lord Voldemort.” “Which I do on your orders!” “And you do it extremely well. Do not think that I underestimate the constant danger in which you place yourself, Severus. To give Voldemort what appears to be valuable information while withholding the essentials is a job I would entrust to nobody but you.” “Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord’s mind!” [...] “You refuse to tell me everything, yet you expect that small service of me!” snarled Snape, and real anger flared in the thin face now. “You take a great deal for granted, Dumbledore! Perhaps I have changed my mind!”

Let's see... He's comparing Harry to James again, calls him mediocre and he's jealous because Dumbledore trusts Harry more than Snape. Oh, and he threatens to turn to the dark side if he doesn't get what he wants. This is a 37 year old man. Perhaps he's just upset because Dumbledore is dying? Yeah, that's it. Let's give him another chance:

Another long silence. Then Snape said, “I thought... all those years... that we were protecting him for her. For Lily.”

[...] “You have used me.” “Meaning?” “I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter—” “But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.

I don't know, maybe they should protect Harry simply because he's a kid and he doesn't deserve to die? Isn't that enough? He doesn't have to be Lily's son to be worthy of staying alive. And when Dumbledore insinuates that he cares about Harry, Snape makes it clear that no, it's not for him, and after all these years... It's still for Lily. Because he's asking for her forgiveness. Noble, right? It's not as if you should do good things because it's the right thing to do.

Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back onto the floor, under the chest of drawers...

Oh look! He's stealing a letter that wasn't addressed to him! And he's stealing the photograph as well! Well, not all of it, why would he care about James and Harry? Totally normal and justified behaviour from a man who's nearing his forties. Not possessive at all. He definitely deserves to keep that photograph of Lily more than Harry does.

... Sarcasm aside, Snape didn't change his ways. He didn't change his morals.

(Also, in the book Snape never says 'You have your mother's eyes', which, along with Alan Rickman's wonderful perfomance, greatly contributed to Snape being considered a good man. He does ask Harry to look at him, though, implying he wanted to see Lily's eyes one last time. Which makes me think that even up until the end he only saw Harry as an extension of Lily, and not as his own person.)

Unfortunately we don't have nearly enough information about James, but we do know that he saved Snape when he went after Remus to the Shrieking Shack when they were in school, while Snape was perfectly happy to let Lily's husband and son die if it meant she could live. James wasn't a saint when he was younger, and Lily reminded him all the time how much she despised his behaviour. But as I said in the other post, the incident at the lake was eye-opening for both Lily and James. It's clear that he hadn't realised that his actions could have hurt her prior to that. He was a sheltered and ignorant kid, but we know from canon that he grew up. He became responsible enough to be appointed Head Boy without any previous experience as a prefect, and then he joined the Order. Sounds to me like he proved he could grow. Personally I think that Lily wouldn't have let James into her life if she didn't truly think he had changed. Saying that she was brainwashed into marrying James is an insult to her intelligence. It's as if she has no will of her own, no choice, no autonomy. Which is simply no true. This is the same woman who refused to join Voldemort after being offered to, who refused to step aside when Voldemort arrived at Godric's Hollow.

Snape's love - if you want to call it that - for Lily is conditional; James' love for her is selfless. He could have lived a long life but chose to fight and die for the cause. And he made this choice long before they were together, by befriending people like Sirius (a traitor), Remus (a monster) and Peter (an outcast). And after Snape stops poisoning Lily's mind - insulting and judging James and his friends - Lily is free. When he is removed from the equation, Lily is allowed to grow.

In conclusion: Snape did not change and become a better person, and even if he did, it was for selfish reasons.

[roalinda]

we chastise sirius for 'You’re less like your father than I thought' scene (rightfully), but i actually love it? sirius did love harry more than life, but james was always different level than anyone no matter how important. even when he was dead for 14 years. [especially when sirius was shut in grimmauld place.] its not good and not healthy, but that was an inherent element of sirius&james anyway, wasn't it?

Oh anon, I am very happy you put this in my ask box , because believe it or not, a lot of people think like Molly Weasley ( no Molly bashing here, I'm just stating the facts ) and the way she thought/said that Sirius kept thinking Harry is James which I have said thousands of times and will continue to say that is a huge insult to Sirius and James' friendship and James' memory. Because how the hell Sirius - quite the double act with his best friend- Black can ever mistake anyone for James Potter, let alone his son ( and his own godson ) who let's face it, is very different from his father character-wise , not only in recklessness, but also is different when it comes to childhood background, etc.

To Sirius, no relationship ( platonic or romantic with anyone) has ever been on par what he had with James. It is crystal clear in the books no matter whatever other HCs. Not accepting it is like saying Lily's eyes were brown. What I mean is that for example it is Lily's green eyes that had enough impact to move people like Snape and it was what Sirius feels for James that motivated him, no matter what everyone says. Difference is that James' love motivates Sirius but is not the reason why Sirius protects Harry. The reason is how he loves Harry himself but in Snape's case both reason and motivation are Lily. But that's another matter to discuss.

Sirius' love for James is different, both in type and in level. He loves Harry so much, he escaped Azkaban for him but no one ever can replace James. What he said to Harry doesn't mean he is mistaking him for James, it means he is acknowledging the difference, although not very happily, probably because he knows if James was alive and Harry had his family, the base of his confidence ( good or bad ) would be different.

Nothing can tear down the JamesandSirius part of Sirius Black ( and James Potter in case Sirius was dead and he was alive) , it's so painfully obvious that sometimes people forget about it, because it is like a second skin for them. Depending on one's view, their co-dependency and love maybe unhealthy but to be honest I think it is unhealthy for the people around them, not themselves, unless people accept the fact that Sirius and James have no sense of private life, are *always* glued together either physically or talking via mirrors about the most complicated runes and formulas or gossiping about Voldemort's supposed to be pink panties. They are a double package and well, it is always about JamesandSirius. 🥰

[jmagnabo92]

Saw this and immediately had to show you.

This is from someone talking about Snape.

“He was a bright kid from a poor and dysfunctional home who got bullied by kids from well-to-do families, so he joined up with people who could help protect him from those bullies. At the age of 17 or 18, he and his school pals joined up for a cause they didn't fully understand (but believed it would improve their station), working as basically a slave for a crime lord and he got in way over his head. Once he recognized how much it would cost him, he did everything he could do make amends.

Would you like to be judged forever for the beliefs you had before you were 20?”

Well... this sounds exactly what they say about Regulus or Malfoy (Draco that is). I wonder if they say the same about all DE teens.

Personally, I think it's BS.

First of all, do we have any evidence that it was obvious or the reason behind the dislike from James/Sirius, that Snape was poor? Because I don't see that. It wasn't even obvious to them that he was poor, was it? Just by looking at him, you can't tell.

James/Sirius literally befriend the poorest person in class - Remus (which admittedly is a popular HC), but they've NEVER shown any elitism that the Purebloods in Slytherin do. There's no evidence, even grown up Sirius shows no elitism whatsoever towards Remus, the Weasleys or anyone else.

So, I don't think they targeted him because he was poor.

Secondly, he hated muggles as a child. He hated muggleborns throughout his teen years and DID NOT JOIN THE DEATH EATERS because of J/S. He literally joined them because he wanted to. He shared their ideals and he shared their desire to put wizards first because of his father - it had nothing to do with J/S or he wouldn't have joined pureblood that are far more elitist than they are.

Thirdly, there's A) no evidence about 'improving their station' - consider most that joined V were purebloods and already on top, and B) they all knew EXACTLY what was going on - everyone did. They were perfectly capable of knowing WTF was going on, what they were dealing with, and what the cause was - Voldemort never hid his goals for everything. The same teen that is intelligent enough to basically re-write potions and make spells that can kill with the intention to kill is intelligent enough to understand V's plainly laid out plans to rule over muggles. (It's not like V didn't make things obvious).

Lastly, he never would've changed sides if Lily's son wasn't targeted and she died. There's nothing to suggest that he stopped believing in pureblood elitism - in fact, his treatment of Hermione (a muggleborn) and Harry (a halfblood) show otherwise. But that's HC, as is anything that say 'he realizes the error of his ways' - just like Regulus he turned because someone HE CARED ABOUT was killed (or maimed in Reg's case). It literally nothing to do with realizing the error of his ways. In fact, if Lily dying hadn't happened - who's to say he would ever change sides. The fact that he gleefully passed on the prophecy and didn't care about condemning a child says he never would've.

As for the question at the end, I fully believe people can change but they have to change because they realize they were wrong and want to change because it's the right thing to do. I fully don't believe that's the case with Snape, just like it wasn't for Regulus. His treatment of his students -not just Gryffindors, not just Hermione, not just Harry (but that's a big reason) is not evidence that he didn't change, didn't want to change, and never believed he was wrong. He was just sorry it cost him Lily.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for the ask :)

[jiilys]

Can I just say that I have a humongous amount of interest in the long-running james and lily are celebrities who break up and then get back together that's told entirely in celebrity profile if you were ever thinking of going back to it and that I’d give my left arm to even read the drafts (in a non pressurising way hopefully!). Your writing is incredible and I’m always ecstatic to read anything of yours!!!

this is so nice, and because i'm leaving and it will never be finished you can have the entire barely-there draft!!! be warned, i wrote most of this in, like, high school. also it is very much not finished but i tacked on my plot notes at the end to give you an idea of what i was going for. anyway, onwards!

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

This is not a love story. Well, it wasn’t when it all started. 

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{ARCHIVED EMAIL} evans.lily07@gmail.com TO elizabethalexander@orderagents.com 

r.e: audition today 

liz

audition terrible. if wannabe seth rogen calls tell him yoghurt washes off and im not paying shite 

cheers,

lil 

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{ARCHIVED TEXT} James Potter to Sirius Black: car is covered in yogurt pls make sure there aren’t pigeons outside ur house 

Sirius Black: cant tell if this is a sex thing or not 

James Potter: how could it be a sex thing 

James Potter: girl from the audition threw yoghurt at my car after i said her movies pander to stuck up virgins 

Sirius Black: love that ur calling her ‘girl from the audition’ like u didn’t see that soccer film she was in four times 

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

First, some history. 

Lily Evans essentially became famous overnight. At the age of 20, starring alongside Keira Knightley and telling the story of the world’s first openly gay soccer player, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her debut feature film performance. 

I say ‘debut feature film’ because Evans had been a staple on the art house short film scene for a number of years with her collaborator Severus Snape. They made the type of horror short films your kids show you when they’re fifteen and you wonder if you should get them to talk to someone. They are still available in the depths of Youtube if you’re interested. 

They were actually somewhat of a big deal, in art house circles. Their slasher esque short Lace Me about a disembodied neck, while sounding bizarre, wracked up 300,000 views on their (since deactivated) Youtube channel and is, in parts, genuinely thrilling. Snape was the director and cinematographer and Evans the actress, both sharing the writing credit. Both lived in the quiet, rural Cokeworth, a small British town known primarily for a throwaway line in Billy Elliot and now, Evans. They shared a street that had a playground in the middle, the houses bubbling around the outside. There is a photo of them, floppy haired with notebooks out, sat on the top of the monkey bars and talking. They would be about fourteen.

When asked about that period of her life, Evans is unsurprisingly stiff. “I was a kid.” she said in an interview some years ago, “I made weird shit and showed it to other kids who made weird shit. I don’t know how they hold up today, I don’t own any of the copies anymore, but I liked scary movies. I still like scary movies.”

In any case, the partnership ended under somewhat bitter circumstances, as most people who were breathing and owned a television five years ago probably know, but we’ll get to that. 

What’s important right now is that, basically, James Potter has been famous forever.  

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THE TIMES: Celebrated director duo welcome son

Acclaimed English director duo Finneas ‘Flea’ Potter (53) and Eleonor Potter (47) welcomed a son on Sunday night, their representatives confirmed. Their statement read: “We are delighted to announce the arrival of our son James Phillip Potter on March 9th. Both Mother and baby are doing well, and if anyone’s interested, the father found the whole thing rather stressful actually.”

Flea had previously been married to Dorea Hart for three years. This is Eleonor’s first marriage, and the first child for both.  

Eleonor, educated at the Yale school of drama and originally an actress, became the youngest female nominee for Best Director at 28 for her work on Ridiculous, about a haunted high school debate team. Flea is perhaps best known for his work directing the critically-acclaimed comedy-drama duology Pure Blood, which won Barnet Gomas back to his back-to-back Best Actor BAFTA’s and Golden Globes a decade ago. 

The couple married fourteen years ago and formed the production company Sleekeazy (pronounced ‘Sleazy”) International Pictures, the name being a play on the short-lived but successful production company ‘Selznick International Pictures’. 

Both directed the comedy-drama Hair Care and the coming of age film Out Past Dark, the latter going on to win Best Picture. More recently, the couple have been executive producers on the HBO mini-series 394, a thriller series based on Eileen Rickman’s best-selling novel.   

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TEEN VOUGE: This Picture of Young James Potter with His Mum Is The Cutest Thing In the World

CLEVVER TV: Watch Seven-Year-Old James Potter talk about his Parents Movie Legacy in Unreleased Clip!

JEZEBEL: Its Been Twenty Years Since ‘Hallmark Boy’ Hit Our Screens, Find Out Why It’s Still James Potter’s Best Film Ever

AV CLUB: Uhhh Remember That Time A Nine-Year-Old James Potter Wore Socks Over Shoes To His Movie Premiere 

BUZZFEED: James Potters Movie Characters Ranked By How Big Your Crush On Them Was When You Were Eleven 

REDDIT THREAD: best child james potter movie moment that isnt the scene where hes serenading kelly rocket at the school disco in ‘forget it’ bc obvsly that’s number one

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Excerpt from BLACK SHEEP: The Unauthorised Biography of Hollywood’s Favourite Bad Boy Sirius Black 

Sirius meet James Potter on a fake train, on a movie set they’d snuck on to when they were both meant to be onset filming a cereal commercial. Both boys, rouge and wild even at age nine, had bonded over their mutual hatred of acting and, as I’m informed by a stage hand, were found stealing cigarettes from a back room. 

Black, by this point well into being emotionally and physically manipulated by his Hollywood obsessed mother, was drawn to Potter’s easygoing family. Married for 22 years, the Potter’s were the stability Sirius so craved in his own turbulent home life. Despite the long-reported rumours of Finneas’ homosexuality, the Potter marriage appeared stable, and Sirius used James as his raft to gain access. 

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

You can’t talk about James Potter for too long without eventually ending up at Sirius Black. For the record, that story in widely debunked biography Black Sheep about how James Potter and Sirius Black met on a movie set they’d both snuck on too? Untrue. They actually met in the green room of a Disney ad featuring a large group of child actors at seven years old, where Potter claims Black unapologetically ate almost the entire allotment of sandwiches and then vomited to go home early.

“It was the greatest acting he’s ever done or will ever do, really.” Potter said on a press tour on The Jonathan Ross Show, to uproarious laughter. Black, by then his producing partner and wearing an outfit so ridiculously cool to look at it too long was to wither and die, said casually “I live to inspire the younger generation.” (Potter is two days younger than Black) 

So, James Potter, on his way to becoming the most famous child star since Macaulay Culkin, meets Sirius Black, a kid some already considered burnt out even at the tender age of seven. 

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THE DAILY MAIL: Former By the Numbers star Sirius Black, 14, testifies in his lawsuit for emancipation in tense court scene [PHOTOS]

E NEWS: Sirius Black and James Potter are Reportedly Living Together During His Lawsuit

THE ATLANTIC: What Sirius Black’s Emancipation Says About the Treatment of Minors in Entertainment

THE DAILY MAIL: Walburga Black Accused of Child Endangerment: Sixteen Hour Workdays, Withholding Food, Halting Production Over Screen Time 

JUST JARED: {PHOTOS} Sirius Black Seen Out and Partying During Trial!!

E NEWS: Regulus Black Called to Testify on Mothers Behalf in Black Trial

VANITY FAIR: Black Star Collapse: Inside the Mistreatment, On-Set Abuse, and Erosion of Sirius Black.

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[14] missed calls 

{ARCHIVED TEXT} Remus Lupin to James Potter: jesus where ar e you 

Remus Lupin: james 

Remus Lupin: james 

Remus Lupin: everythings gone to shit i cant find him 

Remus Lupin: pickup

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TMZ: [VIDEO] Sirius Black (15) Drunkenly ATTACKS Police Officer On Street Amid Emancipation Trial!

Video Embedded below shows former child star Sirius Black, 15, attacking a paparazzo outside a local nightclub, swearing, and apparently intoxicated. Watch now! 

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

The saga of Sirius Black’s emancipation trial from his parents was plastered, in excruciating detail, all over the internet (including in this publication) for the two years it dragged on, so won’t be discussed here. All there is to say is that Black moved in with the Potter’s over this period and eventually, at 16, won his emancipation case. Records indicate that he still has not been paid the estimated £4.1 million his parents stole from him over his childhood. 

Black continued living with the Potter’s until both moved out at 17 to LA, this time with two new people in tow. Remus Lupin met Black in a McDonalds where the latter was working at the time, and ended up dropping everything to move with them eight months later. Peter Pettigrew was an eternal extra on the set of Potter’s Disney films that he took a shine too and dragged along with him. 

Lupin, whose father was an accountant and his mother a school receptionist, was eighteen and the oldest of the four of them upon moving out. “One of us had to sign the lease.” He explained, in an interview some years later. Pettigrew (at the time) just seemed to be happy to be along for the ride. “it’s fun,” he said on Entertainment Tonight just after Genuine Idiot came out and started getting rave reviews, “It’s all just really fun.” 

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REDDIT: I’m Sirius Black - AMA

It’s Sirius and I’m here promoting my new film Genuine Idiot (out November 3rd) which I co-wrote/am in so you should all watch it in cinemas or buy on blue-ray so you can skip all the parts I’m not in. Cheers! 

wolfwere asks: how did you and remus lupin met?

Sirius Black: in a mcdonalds when i was skipping a court-mandated meeting for emancipated minors and lupin was there wiping tables badly 

Корнелийfudge: If you didn’t act what would you do? 

Sirius Black: does porn count

gillyweed420: james potters best performance?

Sirius Black: the kleenex commercial he did when he was five and dressed as a booger that he hates (link) 

Hoegoblin: What do you consider your greatest accomplishment 

Sirius Black: climbed all the way up a traffic light the other weekend

jimmyboy: Does it bother you that james has more kids choice awards than you 

Sirius Black: i saw you type this potter everyone go cyberbully him

[deleted]: dick pic? 

Sirius-Black: my publicist (remus in a wig) said no

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ARCHIVED EMAIL: jimjames@outlook.com TO 

James Potter to group: okay so the worst thing ever has just happened

Remus Lupin: oh my god oprah DID NOT die 

James Potter: no 

James Potter: what???

James Potter: the funding on that lily evans project came through 

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ARCHIVED EMAIL FROM: elizabethalexander@mckinnonagents.com TO minmcgonagall01@outlook.com 

r.e: incident in parking lot 

Minerva, 

Lily has assured me that the incident at the audition will not happen again, and that she and Mr Potter can remain professional on set. She also wanted me to assure that the yoghurt had been shown on an advertisement to not stain clothes, so damage to the vehicle would have been minimal.

Despite my objections she wanted this clarified. Sorry again, please contact me if there are any issues.

Elizabeth Alexander

Mckinnon Agencies 

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

Reportedly, either during or after the audition for James Potter and Lily Evans’ first film collaboration (Hidden in the Willow, directed by the famed Minerva McGonagall) there was- what has been referred to- as ‘The Incident in the Parking Lot’. As for what the incident was, stories vary, from as fantastical as Evans picking up Potter’s car and throwing it into a nearby building, to Potter making a joke about the relative unattractiveness of Evans’ shoes that caused some on-set tension. 

Even putting aside rumours of onset drama, the production itself seemed cursed, with the three of the seven willow trees being used in production seemingly having a mind of their own and giving several crew members black eyes or bruised ribs. There was record rainfall for a film that was meant to be set almost entirely outside, under said possessed willows, and whatsmore the prop master had a somewhat wild cat who stalked the set, interfering in shots and looking generally put out.

Regardless, what occurred between the pair was not pleasant, and thus began the feud of the year which played out on-set of the film, where they played lovers, during the press tour and in the months after. Evans’ agent and apparent friend Elizabeth Alexander referred to the rumours of twos dislike as ‘blown wildly out of proportion’. 

Sirius Black, Potter’s aforementioned best friend and writing partner who was called for comment for this story, appeared to refute this, saying: “Listen I’m not saying shit, but for the record Liz is talking out her ass.”

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The drama apparently stemmed from different approaches to film practise. Potter, raised on sets all his life, casual with his luck, preferred not to learn his lines before the day of shooting. He missed his marks, joked around with lighting guys, didn’t ask for or take notes. 

Evans, by contrast, only had two films under her belt by this point.  She was known for being accommodating and reliable, but meticulous about prep. She turned up to set knowing the script inside out, having watched much of the director’s available filmography as well as the cinematographers, and knowing all the producers names. She learnt her marks like they were choreography. As one anonymous crew member put it: “we all found [Potter] hilarious, but you could see why she didn’t”

Potter once had to call for a line during a take thirteen times in a row. Evans would reportedly refuse to speak to him off camera, actively ignoring him if he tried to strike conversation. Potter, for his part, hardly helped the situation by printing out photos of Golden Globe’s and plastering them on the front of her trailer. In interviews throughout the production he would refer to her as ‘my co-star, who is Golden Globe nominated…’

Mid-way through the production during a scheduled kissing scene, Potter secretly filled his mouth with grass which Evans discovered mid-take, which she promptly spat back in his face as McGonagall called cut. She then preceded to call him a colourful series of names while Potter, covered in half chewed grass, accused her of being humourless. Footage of this incident was later uploaded to Youtube, then taken down, but multiple people have reported being shown the footage by either Sirius Black or Remus Lupin, depending on intoxication. I can say this because while reporting this story, having still not clarified that we were off the record, Black showed it to me on his phone.

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NOTE FOUND ON JAMES POTTER’S HIDDEN IN THE WILLOW TRAILER, KEPT BY THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT:

Potter, 

Seeing as you like greenery so much I hope you find your new carpet upgrade enjoyable 

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Lily Evans to Elizabeth Alexander: i have a lawyer right 

Elizabeth Alexander: yes 

Elizabeth Alexander: what happened 

Lily Evans: just checking 

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James Potter to Remus Lupin: its fully ALL THROUGH the carpet like she ground it in with her shoe dude 

James Potter: shes actually deranged my trailer looks like a quarry 

Remus Lupin: to be fair you did put grass in her mouth in front of a group of people on camera 

James Potter: what part of QUARRY are you not understanding 

James Potter: christ ive just seen an ant this is the LIMIT 

James Potter: i cant wait for this shoot to be over 

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Excerpt from a Vanity Fair Exclusive: The Wrong Love Story: James Potter and Lily Evans Take the World and Then Try Give It Back

The onset animosity caused McGonagall to separate their trailers across the lot and, by the productions end, all but cancel the press tour. Potter, at one of him and Black’s legendary parties, reportedly did an impression of Evans to much laughter in the room but that led to her (having heard about it from a mutual friend) going to his address and opening a can of diced tomatoes into his mail box. Potter requested his trailer be moved off the lot entirely, away from Evans, who was refusing to have hair and makeup with him.

In an Elle magazine cover during promotion Evans would say that

 “I had no idea what I was doing, and I was terrified all the time of being caught out. I turned up to set knowing my lines and everyone else’s lines back to front. Preparation was really important to me. I felt like- I was trying to compensate for being so lucky with my debut, I just wanted to prove to everyone that deserved to be there. I wanted it all so badly, I couldn’t-“ Evans grasps for a minute, hands together, rubbing a thumb over her wrist bone, “I couldn’t believe how real it all was. I couldn’t stand the idea of losing it because I didn’t do enough” 

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HUFF-POST RED CARPET FLASHBACK: Lily Evans gives her then co-star James Potter the finger during a red-carpet appearance while promoting their hit movie Hidden in the Willow! Watch the Clip Below!  

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Okay that’s all I have, but this was the broader plot:

James: child star with famous parents, mickey mouse club type vibe, best friends with sirius who he also meet there (emancipated from his parents), girlfriend called regina minor who is nice

James old films: ride on (8) (not a porno, Disney, kid trying to save local horse), see me (kid with invisibility cloak) flea mountain (kids trapped on flea mountain)   

He sings in a musical Christmas carol

Had his start in a one-epsiode character arc in tv show dare to dance  

Forget it: kid who can make people forget things (scene with kelly rocket where he sings to her at school dace) 

Lily: grew up normal and then starred in a movie with keira knightly, accused by sev of selling out, poor girl trying not to be poor anymore, of abandoning their partnership 

Lily’s debut is gay soccer film with keira knightly – never gets a title, called gay soccer film 

Lily can’t stand the hypocrisy because snape was also poor and selling out, working with Mulciber and Avery and those other creeps, Harvey W*instein vibe.

James stops working for a year when he’s 17, comes back at 20 with a script that he and sirius write, and it’s funny

It’s called Genuine idiot: Sirius and him write it: two wealthy guys go to a normal frat college and try to not suck: it’s funny like how Superbad is funny, and isn’t as sexist as it sounds. 

James doesn’t really want to act he wants to direct, but getting the money is the problem. 

Peter knew about an assault, saw it at a party and never said anything, lied to the police about it until other evidence came to light. video on snapchat that was saved. It all comes out when they’re 23 and it fucks everything  

James and Sirius write another movie when they’re 24 about three guys in a cabin and one of them is trying to get clean. Loosely based on what they had to do with sirius when they were 22.

anyway, the snape stuff would all blow up when lily was 25ish, it would be how her and james became better friends because peter would also go off and join that group. there would be a big fight at some hollywood party between all of them and james would break his nose and it would always be a little crooked after that, and that's how that all ends

Anyway lily and james fucking hate each other until they don’t, and work on three movies over that time: 

Hidden in the willow: minerva mcgonagal period drama, long scenes of two lovers under willow, green/blue colour palette: took ages to get financed, they’re 22 when they’re filming 

Came right off that film and into another, their chemistry is so good, their success so assured 

Age 25: mad-eye moody: thriller called ‘constant vigilance’, crazy director, insane shoot

Age 28: guilderoy lockheart: ‘pluto’ bizarre space opera film shot and released in same year. 

So: they’re 26 when they start going out, 30 when they break up, 34 when they get back together 

On a late-night chat show with sirius, remus and james, and they’re promoting their cabin movie. They’d be joking around about lily, and all the bad press and how they’re friends now, and they’re talking about lily said he worse bad shirts on the press tour, or whatever, and james says jokingly  “Oh, fuck her” and sirius says “dude, aren’t you?” and that’s how everyone finds out they’re dating

At 32 she wins an Oscar and the camera cuts to him for a split second for a reaction shot, bastards, and he’s clapping for her, expression unreadable 

anyway, they'd get back together by the end of the profile, and they'd get married at like 35 in vegas and sirius would get really drunk and break his arm during the ceremony somehow, and remus would be photographed outside a club later in the night in lily's veil looking fucking wrecked

[knight-already]

Here’s a thought:

Young bby boy Severus  being age eight or nine  hiding in a bush watching the Evan sisters play, particularly interested lily who is using magic.... described to look at lily 'hungrily' or with 'undisguised greed' on his face.

How long had he watched the other children in his town play without joining in... or being allowed to join in?

I know a lot of ppl like to bag on one scene in the snape household and say Tobias is abusive tool -- which fair. But -- if we look into this scene a bit closer.

Severus was only interested in Lily because she had magic. 

He lived in spinster end his whole life.

He claimed his father hated magic, so I doubt Severus had many chances to go to the wizarding world no magic in their house hold since  his mother most likely never told his father that she was magic and I'm sure it was a nasty surprise when Severus started doing accidental magic and she couldn't cover for him anymore.

Most likely what that fight we saw in Severus’ memories was about -- Eileen lied to him and had a child with him.

I mean -- That has something weird about it right? 

From lily we learn calling someone a ‘witch’ is a bad thing  so no doubt Tobias was upset that his son was magic from then his trust and their marriage probably went down the drain.

With the cat out of the bag -- Eileen starts telling severus stories of his magical heritage.

I see this two ways:

1.Severus was warned in fear of being outed in a muggle town for having magic was warned to not play with children who didn't have magic then he finds lily. [But I don think this was the case the kids don't act like its some big frightening secret.]

2. She had him believe that he was special among the muggles and fills his head with muggle prejudice that I'm sure found its was to Tobias, he tells her to cool it. But she had already filled Severs head with an [us] and [them] mentality. Maybe he was told muggles are below him, that he should not play with them --

Maybe Tobias and her would argue about this, the neighbors where side eyeing them as is and now Severus couldn’t even play with the others. Ad in Severus’s agility to say the most rude wrong thing [that he didn't mean it just came across that way -- as he parroted back what his mum told him]

 but there was little Tobias could do when he worked all day. 

When Severus heard these talks he would reason that his father as wrong, that he didn't see that he was better than others like his mother said. that there was an easy solution for all this and that was for him to just find a magical child he could play with

His mother said muggleborns did exist so he watched for a long time until he found one:

enter {LILY} 

 But he had no social skills apart from talking to his mother and father, he planned and planned how to talk to her and he just couldn't wait to finally have a friend that met the Criteria so he  'hungrily' with 'undisguised greed' on his face observed her. 

Severus was probably so sad when she wasn't impressed by him, I’m sure he  was isolated by the other children in the town because of his behavior towards them refusing to play. I could imagine, that Severus was so happy they were finally headed off to Hogwarts he thought that meant he would meet people who were finally worthy of him -- a place for only magical children -- and endless option of friends.

Only for him to be rejected.

Because the whole glue for his and lily’s friendship was his knowledge on Magic he didn't really have anything to work with outside of that especially since all the children where learning with him. Maybe he worked so hard in school was so he had something to:

 1. occupy his time -- he genuinely liked to study 

2. he was used by his peers to do their assignments and cheat off of.

 Which he was fine with since he didn't know how else relate to his peers.

Of course there is also the fact that he was getting bullied by James and co. and was a slytherin and that added to his isolation.

Poor thing had a losing hand no matter what he did,

[sendandburn]

Snape didn't Hate Harry Potter

"Yes, yes, I can hear the jeers.

He just could never reconcile the two extremes that he saw in Harry and, the Boy-Who-Lived didn’t make matters any easier for him.

Severus Snape’s character is complex. What makes it inconsistent is Rowling’s post-series revisionism and to some extent, her inability to realistically configure multiple shades in a relationship.

Snape never loved Harry. He didn’t like him either.

Harry’s general attitude towards education made matters worse. If Harry’s appearance alone wasn’t enough to remind Sev of James (and by extension the Marauders), Harry’s aloofness towards education and academic slouching sure did. If only Harry had ever shown the academic conviction of his mother, Snape wouldn’t be as disappointed in Harry as he was. Yes, it was a lethal dose of Potter’s son meeting the criteria of a disappointing student and that pushed Snape over the edge.

Mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent.. That’s how Snape describes Harry to Dumbledore.

Tell me, which of the above is false? Harry didn’t want to be famous and that aside, most of Snape’s remarks are true.

In comparison to Snape, Lily, James, and Sirius, Harry was indeed mediocre. Harsh judgment, yes. Did he break rules? He reveled at it. Imagine yourself risking life every time to save the boy, and he’s busy roaming around the castle and beyond at night. Snape was rather restrained. If it were Minerva McGonagall in place of him, Harry would have been sent back packing to Privet Drive.

Did Harry seek attention? The way I see it, he did. It was subtle and understandable because he never received any when he lived with the Dursleys. At Hogwarts, he did.

He didn’t like the fact that he was famous because of his parents’ sacrifice. But that’s another thing, isn’t it? Whenever Harry was moved to sidelines, he’d be irky, cynical, and passively aggressive. Precisely why Harry was good at activities that required chivalry and daring - more action, less thinking - and actions that usually provided immediate gratification over slow, subtle activities that required patience and introspection. Harry was in James territory there, not Lily. And, Snape would be the first to see that.

Was Harry impertinent? He knew that Snape saved his life at the end of book one. Did he go and thank Snape for it? He didn’t. Sure, Snape would have scoffed him off, but such a gesture would no doubt have made Snape felt good. James’ son thanking Snape, and while looking at Harry, he’d see Lily’s eyes too, those words coming from those eyes would have pleased Snape very much. Harry didn’t know about this of course and he didn’t care. It wasn’t in Harry’s nature to care about other’s emotions, especially someone whom he hated.

Here’s a hilarious bit: what happens next? Snape catches Harry and Ron wishing that Snape had left or been sacked. Yes, that’s how you pay him back for saving your life. Not for one moment did Harry consider that this man saved his life. That’s very inconsiderate, even for a 12-year-old.

At the end of book three, the trio attack Snape instead. That would have resulted in immediate expulsion if Snape had wished so. But Harry was there enjoying Snape’s head getting bumped on the roof on their way out of the Shrieking Shack. And, why was Snape even there? The man who had saved Harry’s life before had come rushing to save Harry, Ron, and Hermione again. For all he knew, Sirius was this insane mass murderer and he didn’t care once before leaping to their rescue.

The raw deal is that Severus Snape hated the James he saw inside Harry. And, Harry wouldn’t budge either. Rather than negotiating with Snape, or introspecting about it, even talking to Dumbledore, Harry played fire with fire. Just like Snape was a special case for James; he had become a special case for Harry, and Harry enjoyed it no bits whenever he could humiliate Snape.

One benefit we have to award Harry is his age. It is understandable for a pre-teen boy to react that way. However, as he grew up, he showed no sign of growth as a person. He didn’t stop to think about how Snape’s actions and behavior didn’t intersect. By book four or five, you’d think Harry would have developed enough critical thinking and boldness to tackle the issue head-on. No way.

During the Occlumency lessons, Snape didn’t bully Harry like he used to. In fact, he was rather polite for his usual standards. It was Harry who was trying to instigate Snape, if anything.

We experience the story through Harry’s perspective and this is one of the key cases of third-person-limited narrative bias. Harry Potter isn’t a reliable narrator of emotions. The same as Hagrid wasn’t a reliable judge of character. Harry’s hatred for Snape—Harry hated Snape more than Snape hated Harry—veiled his judgment. During their years as pupils, both Snape and Lily were excellent students. From what we know, that year produced brilliant students.

Snape, Lily, James, and Sirius were in some ways prodigies in their own rights.

Snape and Lily were more into the finer elements of magic, while James and Sirius were superstar students, all-rounders.

As an academician, Snape was a traditional teacher. He had rigid philosophies and set high standards for his students. Snape values diligence, determination, and single-pointed vision. While biased towards Slytherins, Snape was also strict in his evaluation of Hermione. Hermione was a diligent and bright student, but she rarely showed innovation or inventiveness. Her knowledge was bookish, which she admitted. Snape didn’t appreciate this trait as much as other teachers. So, that was his way of pushing Hermione to go beyond what’s there in front of her, beyond the safety and security of books. At the end of the series, she did, did she not?

That’s not to say Snape’s teaching methodologies were correct. As with Snape, his intention is almost always faultless, his actions always faulty. It’s not a surprise because Snape didn’t form close relationships with anyone after Lily. He didn’t have good mentors. It doesn’t help that Snape was closer in age to Harry than he was to McGonagall—who was herself a rather cold and distant teacher. But that’s a discussion for another day.

Snape and Harry shared a complex relationship. Neither liked the other. Snape wasn’t particularly fair to Harry and as was the case with James, Snape seemed like the only one who stood up against the two. While everyone was praising the Boy-Who-Lived, Snape started harassing him from day one. That must have rattled Harry and reminded him of a certain Vernon Dursley. With his newly equipped powers this time around, Harry wouldn’t take it lying down. And, there began a relationship that was doomed from the beginning. It didn’t help that Snape was a vindictive bully, or Harry the reckless agitator. This is Snape and Harry, in a nutshell, or how I’d like to think. "

(Analysis done on Quora by Ramma Thappa C)

[brazilian-whalien52]

Fanfic Rec Challenge

1. What is your comfort fic

- Petey and Wade and other being punched in the face things

Fandom: Marvel

Ship: Spiderpool

Following Peter and Wade through their relationship and their absolute failure to communicate literally anything important to people who are not each other. I swear, these guys need to learn to use words

2. What fanfic made you cry the most?

- The Only Moment We Were Alone

Fandom: Merlin

Couple: Merthur

In 1940s England, the son of a wealthy hospital benefactor and his manservant are separated when their love affair is discovered. When Merlin Emrys is committed to an experimental hospital ward to be cured of his deemed mental affliction of homosexuality, Arthur Pendragon will stop at nothing to get him back. Based on the psychological experiments of Dr. William Sargant.

3. Which fanfic is your guilty pleasure

- Revenge is Sweet

Fandom: HP

(please don't hate me for this)

A teenage Snape plots his revenge on James Potter for making his life hell, but little does he know that James has plans of his own that will send both their lives spiraling irrevocably out of control.

4. What is the funniest fanfic you ever read

- Petey and Wade and other being punched in the face things

Fandom: Marvel

Ship: SpiderPool

Following Peter and Wade through their relationship and their absolute failure to communicate literally anything important to people who are not each other. I swear, these guys need to learn to use words

And...

- Operation Blue banana

Fandom: PJO

Couple: Jasico

If Jason had been using his brain, he would have called it off the second Percy called it 'Operation Blue Bananas'. In fact, if he had had any sense whatsoever, he wouldn't have asked for Percy's help in the first place. However, as certain love gods and goddesses will tell you, love tends to mess with your mind.

Now Jason just has to try to make sure it doesn't make him completely lose it.

(In which Jason is lovesick, Percy is his wingman, and Nico is just plain confusing.)

5. Which fanfic made you obsessed with a random ship

- Highway of Love (Or: How Sam Winchester Learned to Stop Worrying and Relax Already)

Fandom Spn

Couple: Sabriel

AU. Sam noticed a few things weren't quite right after they killed the Trickster. After going back to check things out, his life will never be the same.

And...

- Finding GoM Matching Partners

Fandom: Knb

Fandom: Multi-ship

Compilation of one-shot, two-shots and or multichaptered stories, featuring Kuroko no Basuke characters Generation of Miracles finding their own matching partners after they entered high school.

6. Which is the hottest fanfic you ever read

- Don't Think Twice

Fandom: HP

Couple: Drarry

But do not take my word for it, i hardly save this kinda of fic

7. Which fanfic is totally contrary to your taste but somehow you loved it?

- A Cheap Imitation

Fandom: Drrr!

Couple: Shizaya

“Attached to your neck is a collar that will inject a poison into your jugular vein two days from now. Forcibly removing the device will also trigger the poison. Somewhere on this island is the antidote.”

His hands reached up to his neck and he felt the cool metal of the collar.

“Live or die. Make your choice.”

8. Which fanfic made you impressed with the author ability to compliment canon

- Fly a Little Faster

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Couple: Sterek

Everyone knows when you go back in time, you shouldn't step on an ant, just in case you accidentally kill your own grandparent or something. But what happens when you go back in time and, uh, accidentally interrupt the one event that apparently made the Grumpiest Alpha in Town into a ball of mindless manpain?

Well, if Marty McFly can do it, so can Stiles Stilinski. All he has to do is get Derek and Paige to fall in love before he gets pulled back to his own time. And before he makes anything worse. That's easy as pie, right? Right?

9. A fanfic that come just at the right time you needed it

- The Last Straw

Fandom: One piece

Couple: Zosan

Sanji is a perfectionist. Zeff has told him it's a good thing. It takes a perfectionist to run a restaurant kitchen, or any good kitchen really.

But lately he hasn't been living up to the title of a perfectionist.

10. The fluffiest fanfic you ever read

I don't have any to recommend, like smut I hardly save one that is just pure fluffy 😭

11. Favorite gen fanfic:

Again nothing, sorry guys

12. A fanfic you believe deserve to become a book

- Rivals

Fandom: Yuri on Ice

Couple: Victuuri

An altered universe where a single event changes the course of both Yuuri and Viktor's lives, a rivalry is formed that spans across many years and both of them tell a very different side to the story

13. A fanfic you just want to rec because what the hell

- Turn

Fandom: Harry Potter

Couple: Drarry

One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.

14. A fanfic from your home country

- Noiva em Fuga

País: Brasil

Língua: Português

Fandom: Drrr!

Casal: Shizaya

15. A fanfic you have written

Izaya vai descobrir o quanto é difícil fugir usando um vestido de noiva.

- Mercadinho

Fandom: Marvel

Couple: Spiderpool

Peter só quer comprar sua janta e voltar para sua vida agitada. Porém um encontro inesperado acontece.

* não recomendo a leitura da minha fanfic

I challenge @bangtanger @gloster @babyshouyou @lostwithnointernet @rhomaa2 @pieceomono