My first contribution to the Snolidays2021, and also my first fanfiction! I won’t lie, this didn’t go at all in the direction that i meant for it to, but yeah, I’m putting it out in the world.
This is set in 1996 and features Severus Snape and Remus Lupin, with references to Sirius Black and past wolfstar. Sirius doesn’t exactly come off well.
Marauders fans want to complain that Snape dismissed the attack on Mary MacDonald.
What if Slytherins only attacked Mary to get revenge for the Marauders attacking Snape? In the vein of ‘If you hurt one of ours, we’ll hurt one of yours’ they attacked a lone and vulnerable Gryffindor.
If I were Severus, I would have asked Lily why it was so awful for Mary to be attacked while she just shrugged off what was being done to him.
I’m not saying this is the only way for this to happen, just that it’s a possibility.
Or how come Mary MacDonald is always an innocent snowflake? Marauder Stans will excuse Snape’s sexual assault on the grounds that he wasn’t an iNnOcEnT vIcTiM, but by their logic, Mary is a character we can feel sorry for bc she is a paper bag. She isn’t human with real flaws.
Would Marauder stans still care Mulciber tried to do something to Mary if she‘s the type of girl to curse out McGonagall for assigning homework or mock Flitwick for being part goblin or tried to slip Regulus Black a love potion to get her hands on Black family gold? (And before Marauder stans say a friend of Lily’s would never, Lily’s pure friendship standards are reflected in her “best friend“ Severus Snape so we all gotta be consistent. Either Lily is friends with good ppl & is a defender of the innocent or she doesnt have the brains to recognize a racist incel.)
spare me the poor Mary comments bc she isn’t a real character
I want the same energy for poor Bertram Aubrey who is never portrayed as a cute little first year who asked the marauders for directions when they hit him with an illegal head swelling spell. Where r those fics
The Marauders are 100% why I think no one outside Gryffindor really tried to befriend Harry. They’d gotten the 'Don’t trust a Potter’ speech with supporting evidence. Malfoy was the only one with enough social capital (and arrogance) to think he’d be fine.
Bertram Aubrey’s niblings stayed as far away from Harry as possible.
@sneverussape Your tags are exactly what I was thinking!
“I don’t care how much money he has, Edwina, you’re not to keep company with him. I remember his father - harassed that poor Evans girl until she gave in. Such a sad loss to research. She was brilliant at Charms, but you know he dragged the lot of them into danger.”
How may also blamed James for dragging them into open conflict with Voldemort?
right and harry getting into trouble every year wouldn’t have helped his cause. the way seamus acted towards harry in OotP may have actually been the norm outside of gryffindor.
these same parents maybe would have appreciated snape more as a teacher.
“snape is your potions professor, matthias? that little bugger has come a long way, eh! used to top all our exams in my day!”
“i don’t want to hear any whinging from you this year, isabel. if you need any potions tuition you make sure to ask snape. i shall write him if i must.”
Harry’s habit of launching himself straight into trouble wouldn’t have helped his cause at all.
I can see Snape being highly respected as a professor, especially with how hard he had to work to overcome his background and how he was treated at school. And how he kept such good order in his class.
“Wily little bugger he was, brilliant though. Take care to pay strict attention to his lessons, Edwina. It’s not every school that gets a potions master of his caliber. There hasn’t been a serious accident since he took over.”
(I’m beginning to feel a bit sorry for poor Edwina. Her parents seem to only speak harangue.)
yes! i feel like they would have actually been very impressed with snape, being that they had known him in school and would have seen his trajectory, so to speak. was it public information that he was a death eater? even if it was, he’d had dumbledore vouch for him so that would have also turned the tide towards him.
i can see those same parents keeping an extra eye on harry just to say “OH he’s just like his father”. unfair to harry, of course, but in a society like that one, it would’ve been a likely scenario.
(and poor edwina! :))) )
I absolutely love this!! Some parents feeling sorry but also proud and respectful of Professor Snape, knowing what happened to him. Some of them regretting their own bullying/bystander behavior. When they learn he’s a strict/kinda mean professor, “Of course he is… he had to. Had a rough life, poor bugger.” And “It’s Professor Snape!” Or about Harry getting favouritism, “Oh yeah, Dumbledore always favoured Gryffindors, especially the Potters.”
Notice that Harry’s friends are people whose family didn’t seem to know about the Marauders.
Hermione, a Muggle-Born whose family couldn’t know the Potters before she met Harry, and Ron, whose family didn’t know the marauders in person until they were adults.
The Weasleys were shocked when they found Sirius and Severus on the verge of fighting! Molly strongly respects Professor Snape, while she’s exasperated of Sirius. Tonks’ family despised Lupin (and after what he did, no wonder).
Who knows, perhaps in some of the letters that would ask Lupin to quit his Defense Professor post, some came from parents who were already on edge because he was an old friend of James Potterand Sirius Black. Perhaps only then they learned who was the Defense teacher. That he was a werewolf wasn’t the problem in itself, it’s that the werewolf was Lupin… and now they know who nearly killed/infected their friend or themselves on a night at Hogsmeade at the full moon…
The Slytherins particularly enjoy Snape being a dick to Harry, because it’s karma for what his father did to them (their parents) in his time. They also protect themselves in case Harry gets in his head the idea he can bully them like his father used to.
Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin and Hagrid talk good of James and constantly try to make Harry proud of a father who doesn’t deserve this respect. A father who has given him a bad reputation from the start. Those who know his father don’t see Harry as the Boy-Who-Lived anymore, but as a potential Dark Lord indeed (just like they thought in CoS). It was easy to think the worst of Harry (like in OotP), to think he was mentally disturbed, and the fact his father was James (“He was a psychopath!” some would say) might have reinforced that idea.
ohhh good point on the lupin issue. i feel like if parents had known it was lupin teaching them DADA at the same time snape was teaching potions, they’d have reacted quite badly. even if they hadn’t known about the werewolf factor, they would have definitely associated him with the group of bad boys that had run the school.
“lupin! remus lupin? buggerin’ merlin, that fellow used to let his mates run circles around us as prefect! you keep a sharp eye, my lad, and never let your guard down. what does your potions master say about it? they were right pillocks towards snape.”
“to be a fly on that wall! listen here, bertram, if those two raise wands at each other, you run the opposite way, is that clear? they’re more likely to kill each other before the year is out and i don’t want you in harm’s way.”
an additional thing that would have set off parents against harry was him being sirius’ godchild. oh my god, could you imagine.
“no wonder that boy’s always getting into trouble. just bred off a bad lot, he is. i don’t care if he smote lord tiddlywinks, gertrude, you stay awayfrom him. i don’t want to hear any nonsense, you hear? your O.W.L.s are the most important thing right now.”
perhaps also why Dumbledore’s Army didn’t seem to have a lot of members from other houses? (apart from the obvious reasoning that jk only had a set number of characters that she kept recycling, but see, even some of the ones that were in the DA weren’t that friendly towards harry and his mates)
This reminded me of how, in Philosopher’s Stone, when Harry, Hermione, and Neville lose 150 points from Gryffindor, putting them in last place, the entire school treats them badly over it.
Harry’s interpretation is that the entire school hates Slytherin and is upset because of Gryffindor not being able to defeat Slytherin. But…
1) Why would Gryffindor be the only house with the potential to win over Slytherin, and thus regarded as the 'saviour’?
2)WouldRavenclaw and Hufflepuff really have a mindset to the tune of 'I’d rather come behind Gryffindor than see Slytherin win’?
Seems likelier that the other students just saw Harry and his friends as Big Trouble - only been at Hogwarts for a couple of months and already they’re ruining their House’s standing, and getting into night-time shenanigans.
And I think this gets reinforced in every book - the majority of the students, both from Gryffindor and from the other houses, default to thinking that Harry is in the wrong, and possibly malicious. Seamus - who is portrayed as a good, loyal kid - shares a bedroom with Harry for years, but has no trouble jumping to the conclusion that Harry is Not Okay, and neither does his mother (who presumably knows about the Boy Who Lived angle).
If James’ legacy had been an extremely positive one, I think it would have rubbed off on Harry, and he’d have had more social capital with his peers, but he doesn’t. It seems like people are ready to view him as Trouble, and the likely source for that would be… people projecting James on him, the exact same way Sirius and Severus do.
Headcanon: when Snape isn’t wearing his full robes with the travelling cloak, it’s when he’s feeling the most confident. He often feels exposed without the billowing fabric covering him up and obscuring your view of his body. When you see him in his frock coat without the cloak, be prepared for peak Snape sarcasm and wit, more elaborate body language, and an almost permanent smirk, the confidence just oozing from him.
I think that is what they might’ve done in some of the films. The duel with Lockhart is a moment that immediately comes to my mind.
I mean look at him
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Also this is one of the only times he’s not in his cape when he’s in front of the students. Sev must’ve been feeling pretty sure of himself that day. He knew was going knock Lockhart on his ass in front of the students.
Spinner’s End chapter in HBP is such a mood. Snape is sitting there, in his own home, drinking wine by the candlelight, living his best life and then he signs his own death sentence
Do you think Snape cares about the environment?? I do!
Doyou care about the environment? Great!
Now that that is sorted could you do me a massive favour and participate in her survey about perceptions of environmental impacts for her university dissertation?
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