u/masked07

1. Spent his time practicing dark arts with other death eaters in his entire school life. Even lily called him out for wanting to join death eaters.

The person who's opinion he valued more than anybody else saw him as a bad person, and he still didn't try to change. SNAPE COULD NOT MAKE HIMSELF A BETTER PERSON, EVEN FOR THE WOMEN THAT HE LOVED LIKE NOBODY.

2. He too was a bully himself.

He and his little death eater friends went after other muggle born students.

3. He called lily a mudblood in front of half school.

Lily just wrote him of due to his own disgusting actions. He was a racist towards muggle borns.

4. When he grew up he joined wizards nazi group.

He didn't do it because he was being bullied. He started it a long time ago in his school and everyone saw that he was obsessed with the dark arts. And it was no surprise to anyone that he and all of the kids he hung out with became death eaters after school.

5. He wanted James and baby Harry to die.

When he went to dumbledore he confessed it.

Proof- page 677 of book 7

*"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.*

6. He changed sides because he was obsessed with a girl who he called a racial slur.

Lily was never even that close to snape. In fact most of her middle school and high school career, she was questioning their friendship and pulling away.

7. He saved harry in his very first quiddict match because he felt he owned James a debt for saving his life as they were kids.

8. Also considering how similar Snape and Harry's situations are growing up. Both live with abusive family members who also happen to be muggles. Both are poor (in Harry's case individually not as a whole family). Both wear clothes that don't fit them in one way or another. Yet look how differently they turned out. It could have been extremely easy for Harry to fall into the blood purity beliefs due to his upbringing.

So today I finished all Harry Potter movies for the first time and man when snape's plot was revealed in the 8th movie when Harry drops his tears into pensieve and saw his memories my jaw completely dropped and I started grieving over his death and his past trauma about Lily potter and his conversation with dumbledore 🥺. He was so misunderstood and hated by me earlier 😫. It's been more than 12 hours and I still can't get over it, that scene is still replaying in my head. I'm still sobbing, please tell me how to stop crying and cope up seriously 😭😭.