What’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like he’s going to kill him.
I like Minerva’s reaction
huh. i just realized… wasn’t anyone suspicious that dumbledore suddenly gave snape a position that had been cursed for a gazillion years?
I’m sure someone’s pointed this out (sorry op), but it’s really something like 40th time’s the charm. In the greater community, it’s been rumored to be cursed for years; the staff would almost certainly believe it is. Not only does Dumbledore know that it’s cursed, but who cast the curse, when, and why. He shares this with no one until he dies.
Severus in 1980 in his role as super secret great Death Eater spy who’s definitely not still baby faced and acne prone: I’m interviewing. For a normal professorship of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Yes. Albus: That’s adorably transparent. No.
Severus in 1991: Why did you hire him? There are rumors he’s doing Dark shit in Albania? What the fuck. Albus: Exactly, Severus.
Severus in 1992: Fucking HIM? Albus, sucking on a lemon drop while he thinks of his friends who were Confounded by Lockhart and wondering what the curse will do to the little bastard: Hmm, life is full of little mysteries.
Severus in 1993: HE’S—FRIENDS—WITH—LILY’S—KILLER! WHO JUST ESCAPED, MUTTERING ABOUT KILLING POTTER. AND HE’S A WEREWOLF, AND THIS IS A SCHOOL! AND HE ALMOST KILLED ME. Albus: Won’t it be interesting to see what he does? Severus, whose blood pressure would have killed him at 38.5 if Nagini hadn’t got him first: FUCKING NO.
Severus in 1994: Cool. My arresting officer. I love being here, where you force me to be. I love teaching here at Hogwarts where everything bad happens. I love children and all of the stupid awful ways they try to kill themselves in front of me. Really fucking looking forward to the Tournament, by the way! Albus: Lemon drop?
Severus in 1995: Her? Her. That one? Albus: Consider Professor Lockhart. Severus: Rather fucking not.
Severus in 1996: …Me? Albus: Indeed. It is time. Severus, who’s been writing and rewriting lesson plans for 20 years: I gotta. Fuck. Bye, I have to plan, stop picking up cursed shit, I hate you. Albus: Will you kill me now? Severus: Whatever! Bye!!! Potter’s going to fucking die if I do one thing wrong, thanks for giving me two years max, asshole!! Albus, under his breath: I mean, one year. Severus: —and I need a creepy speech, and—
Snape on his first lesson of DADA: I can’t believe I have to tell people this, but DON’T PICK UP CURSED STUFF
This is such an interesting post. Especially in regards in to this idea that Albus used the post to get rid of bad people.
Because then it makes the instances he didn’thire enemies even more interesting. Hiring Snape makes sense because it was planned that Snape would kill Albus at the end of the year, and so he would leave.
But what about Remus? What about fake Moody? Why put your own allies at risk? For what purpose?
I am so curious about this now. Someone could write a really good fanfic about it if they could come up with reasonable explanations.
Gift piece for a friend of mine as a thank you for buying me a Snape figurine off of Etsy! I lowkey hate how hard this popped off lmao.
But yooo nothing like meeting your colleague in the street of London and lighting his cigarette for him in a totally heterosexual way am I right fellas?
I had to try this Artbreeder thing. It’s so creepy and yet so fun.
I touched him up a little to mitigate some of the AI weirdness. And to give him a bigger nose. Snape’s nose is beyond the reach of AI at its current stage of development, apparently.
