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I think people do forget he was nice enough to make Lupin his potion every full moon. He was the only one that could and he could have said no, but he didn’t.
I think people also forget that he later told everyone Remus was a werewolf, which led to his unemployment. Just saying.
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And yet another person who justifies Snape’s jackass bullying behavior.
He wasn’t evil, but he wasn’t a good guy. Not in the sense of being a good person, at least. He did good things but he wasn’t a good guy. He was an asshole.
He had to suffer and go through lots of things in his life. Everybody reacts differently. He reacted this way, and yet he did the right thing in the end. I wouldn’t judge him with such lack of thought. It’s easy to talk when we’re not in it.
I have to disagree with this opinion. It’s true that we are shaped by our circumstances but becoming a bully is a choice that no one should make or be excused for. Just because you have gone through pain and suffering (as Snape has) it does not give you the right to inflict pain on others and that is what bullying does.
Harry went through as much if not more than Snape and yet his deepest nature remained good. He struck out at others in anger, as we all do, but he never deliberately caused anyone harm. Snape chose to let his pain fester into anger and hatred and he actively bullied Neville, Harry, Ron and even Hermione. When a student’s biggest fear is literally his teacher that is NOT something to be taken lightly, even if it is played for laughs in the book and the movie. Snape is a tragic, deeply flawed and compelling character and he absolutely had a choice in how he chose to treat others, regardless of his past.Yet we seem to forget the times he went out of his way to protect Harry and his friends, countering Quirrell’s curse on Harry’s broomstick, trying to protect the trio when he thought Sirius Black was going to harm them, and still he protected them, after Harry attacked him, from werewolf Lupin. And when you think about it everyone but Dumbledore assumed Snape to be one of Voldemort’s favorites, if he was openly kind and friendly towards Potter and his friends the Death Eaters and Voldemort would become suspicious of him thus revealing Snape true colors.
I’d like to point out that, in the book, Snape was unconscious when Remus turned into a werewolf. He did no protecting. As for how he acted towards everyone: he didn’t need to be friendly and kind. He could have just ignored them and not gone out of his way to make their lives miserable. Ignoring them would not bring up any questions of Snape’s loyalty. He bullied them because he could, not because he had a plan.
He had to suffer and go through lots of things in his life. Everybody reacts differently. He reacted this way, and yet he did the right thing in the end. I wouldn’t judge him with such lack of thought. It’s easy to talk when we’re not in it.
Okay, so the shitty things he has gone through gives him a right to bully children? Think again. No matter how shitty life has been, no one has the right to become a bully. If anything, Snape being bullied should have made him realize how horrible it was and he would have tried to be a better person, not someone worse.
I’ve been bullied and I didn’t become a bully in return. I learned from it.
Snape had to be cruel to be kind.
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I’m sorry, but I see this as an excuse Snape lovers come up with to justify his bullying nature. You do remember that it wasn’t just Harry he bullied, right? It was everyone who wasn’t in Slytherin. He wasn’t living a lie; he really is a jackass bully. He took joy in being hurtful towards children. He was looking out for Harry, but he was doing as little as possible.
He didn’t have to go around “favoring” Harry or anyone else, but he certainly wouldn’t have be suspected of betraying the Death Eaters if he just left them alone.
1. When was he ever racist? I’m a bit confused by that statement, unless you’re referring to muggles or something
2. You’ve clearly never been bullied. Snape lived a very difficult life, not just being picked on in school. But always watching his best friend slowly get sucked away by his number one enemy. That would have to be horrible. Yes, he did overreact a bit, and shouldnt have treated kids as bad as he did, but I understand it and in the end I think he really was a great man.
Who says the OP was never bullied? Are you saying that people who hate the fact that Snape was a bully means they were never bullied? Because I was certainly bullied when I was younger and I don’t justify Snape’s actions one bit. Yes, he had a terrible childhood, but that doesn’t give him any right or reason to be a jackass bully to children.
And frankly, Snape was the reason Lily left. He called her a slur and refused to stop hanging out with future Death Eaters. James wasn’t the reason Lily stopped being friends with Snape; she hated him until he changed in their 7th year.
They were both brave; they both died fighting for the woman they loved. So why does Snape get worshiped and James gets hate? And I’m not saying that James’ act should be tolerated, it was still wrong. I just don’t understand how people can easily look over the fact that Snape constantly bullied students as a teacher, but they hold James’ bullying as a teenager against him. He grew up.
And there’s always two sides to a story, and we’ve only seen Snape’s.
James was a more physical bully and had no trauma to speak of. It was fun to him. Snape had a lot of trauma that made him bitter, that justified his actions towards the students. Not to mention he never freaking beat up or used magic to terrorize the students. He was just a like a horridly biased teacher.
Nothing justifies his actions against children as an adult. His bad home like does not give him the right to bullying children and make them fear him. He was an adult and he should have acted like one.
Yeah, but they aren’t your characters. It’s J.K. Rowling’s characters and ideas. If she wants her fans to know who she had end up with who, then she’s completely allowed to do that. Personally, I’m glad she did.
I never got that vibe from him, honestly. Even if it was true, I wouldn’t really blame him. All those posts I see about making Harry Potter references during The Woman in Black (that’s the title, right?) is just sad. Daniel Radcliffe is not Harry Potter. It’s like that time Emma Watson was answering a question in class and someone said, “10 points to Gryffindor!”
Grow the fuck up, people.
As already pointed out, this didn’t happen in the book. Even if Snape wasn’t passed out, I don’t see him jumping in front of Harry, Ron and Hermione. Not that I’m saying he’d let them get hurt, but that seems too much of a protective stance and Snape was too much of a bullying jackass to do something like that. He’d keep werewolf Remus away - he wouldn’t want them dead - but the picture isn’t canon Snape, in my opinion.
