r/SeverusSnape

My theory is that Sirius managed to slip an anonymous note into Snape’s personal belongings—I don’t think Snape recognized Sirius’s handwriting or memorize it—telling him how to get past the Whomping Willow. If Sirius had told him face-to-face, Snape would have suspected something and wouldn’t have gone. It wasn’t only after the disaster had been avoided that Snape discovered Sirius was behind it all; of course, he remained convinced until the very end that the Marauders had all conspired to play this prank on him.

Harry Potter: Harry discovers via Snape’s memories that his father James bullied and sexually assaulted Snape and threatened to hex Lily. (Edit: Exposing someone’s underwear and then threatening to remove said underwear is sexual assault.)

Batman: It varies with the canon but in the Telltale series Bruce Wayne discovers that Thomas was fully corrupt and partnered with the Falcones; he would have people committed to Arkham Asylum after giving them drugs that would turn them insane.

Thor: In Thor: Ragnarok Thor discovers Odin was once a ruthless conqueror that violently subjugated the Nine Realms.

>Lupin broke off. There had been a loud creak behind him. The bedroom door had opened of its own accord. All five of them stared at it. Then Lupin strode towards it and looked out into the landing.

It was at that very moment that Snape entered the Shrieking Shack. And as luck would have it, it was just as Remus was about to begin his story, so Snape had a front-row seat to hear everything.

>‘No one there …’

>‘This place is haunted!’ said Ron.

>‘It’s not,’ said Lupin, / ‘The Shrieking Shack was never haunted… the screams and howls the villagers used to hear were made by me.’ / ‘That’s where all of this starts – with my becoming a werewolf. None of this could have happened if I hadn’t been bitten … and if I hadn’t been so foolhardy …’ / ‘I was a very small boy when I received the bite. My parents tried everything, but in those days there was no cure. The Potion that Professor Snape has been making for me is a very recent discovery. It makes me safe, you see. As long as I take it in the week preceding the full moon, I keep my mind when I transform … I am able to curl up in my office, a harmless wolf, and wait for the moon to wane again. Before the Wolfsbane Potion was discovered, however, I became a fully fledged monster once a month. It seemed impossible that I would be able to come to Hogwarts. Other parents weren’t likely to want their children exposed to me. But then Dumbledore became Headmaster, and he was sympathetic. He said that, as long as we took certain precautions, there was no reason I shouldn’t come to school…’ Lupin sighed, and looked directly at Harry. ‘I told you, months ago, that the Whomping Willow was planted the year I came to Hogwarts. The truth is that it was planted because I had come to Hogwarts. This house –’ / ‘– the tunnel that leads to it – they were built for my use. Once a month, I was smuggled out of the castle, into this place, to transform. The tree was placed at the tunnel mouth to stop anyone coming across me while I was dangerous.’ / ‘My transformations in those days were – were terrible. It is very painful to turn into a werewolf. I was separated from humans to bite, so I bit and scratched myself instead. The villagers heard the noise and the screaming and thought they were hearing particularly violent spirits. Dumbledore encouraged the rumour… even now, when the house has been silent for years, the villagers don’t dare approach it…

>‘But apart from my transformations, I was happier than I had ever been in my life. For the first time ever, I had friends, three great friends. Sirius Black … Peter Pettigrew … and, of course, your father, Harry – James Potter. ‘Now, my three friends could hardly fail to notice that I disappeared once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them my mother was ill, and that I had to go home to see her … I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, worked out the truth … ‘And they didn’t desert me at all. Instead they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.’

>‘My dad, too?’ said Harry, astounded.

>‘Yes, indeed,’ said Lupin. ‘It took them the best part of three years to work out how to do it. Your father and Sirius here were the cleverest students in the school, and lucky they were, because the Animagus transformation can go horribly wrong – one reason the Ministry keeps a close watch on those attempting to do it. Peter needed all the help he could get from James and Sirius. Finally, in our fifth year, they managed it. They could each turn into a different animal at will.’

>‘But how did that help you?’ said Hermione, sounding puzzled.

>‘They couldn’t keep me company as humans, so they kept me company as animals,’ said Lupin. ‘A werewolf is only a danger to people. They sneaked out of the castle every month under James’s Invisibility Cloak. They transformed … Peter, as the smallest, could slip beneath the Willow’s attacking branches and touch the knot that freezes it. They would then slip down the tunnel and join me. Under their influence, I became less dangerous. My body was still wolfish, but my mind seemed to become less so while I was with them.’

>‘Hurry up, Remus,’ snarled Black who was still watching Scabbers with a horrible sort of hunger in his face.

>‘I’m getting there, Sirius, I’m getting there … well, highly exciting possibilities were open to us now we could all transform. Soon we were leaving the Shrieking Shack and roaming the school grounds and the village by night.’

>Sirius and James transformed into such large animals, they were able to keep a werewolf in check. I doubt whether any Hogwarts students ever found out more about the Hogwarts grounds and Hogsmeade than we did … And that’s how we came to write the Marauder’s Map, and sign it with our nicknames. Sirius is Padfoot. Peter is Wormtail. James was Prongs.’

>‘What sort of animal –?’ Harry began, but Hermione cut across him.

>‘That was still really dangerous! Running around in the dark with a werewolf! What if you’d given the others the slip, and bitten somebody?’

> ‘A thought that still haunts me,’ said Lupin heavily.

>‘And there were near misses, many of them. We laughed about them afterwards. We were young, thoughtless – carried away with our own cleverness.’

>‘I sometimes felt guilty about betraying Dumbledore’s trust, of course … he had admitted me to Hogwarts when no other Headmaster would have done so, and he had no idea I was breaking the rules he had set down for my own and others’ safety. He never knew I had led three fellow students into becoming Animagi illegally. But I always managed to forget my guilty feelings every time we sat down to plan our next month’s adventure. And I haven’t changed…’

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs

During his teenage years, Snape was relentlessly bullied by the Marauders, who never missed an opportunity to make his life miserable. Faced with the teaching staff’s inaction and unable to endure the situation any longer, Snape began spying on them in the hope of finding something incriminating against them so he could have them permanently expelled from Hogwarts and finally have some peace. It was during these spying missions that he discovered the Marauders were sneaking out at night, and knowing them as he did, Snape knew they were up to something shady and against the rules, but he never fully grasped what exactly was going on. It was during this period that Sirius had the foolish idea of sending him to the Shrieking Shack—knowing full well that Remus was there in his werewolf form—and he did so without any regard for Snape’s life or for Remus’s future should his attempt on Snape’s life have succeeded. Not only did Snape never find out what the Marauders were doing when they snuck out at night when they were supposed to be in their dormitory, but Dumbledore also forbade him from telling anyone about the incident at the Shrieking Shack. For Snape, this was obviously a terrible injustice.

Years later, upon learning how the Marauders had become Animagi for Remus’s sake—how they’d take him out every full moon from the Shrieking Shack, where he was supposed to stay, just for the stupid thrill of exploring Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, at the risk of Remus inadvertently killing or infecting someone— it only reinforced Snape’s conviction that these four were indeed troublemakers, that none of them was worthy of the slightest trust or consideration—immature, arrogant kids who thought only of having fun without a care for the consequences of their actions. Snape must have regretted not having known all this years earlier, because if he had, he would not have hesitated to expose them and have them expelled. The Marauders were not as noble and wonderful as people seem to believe, and Snape was the only one clear-headed enough to understand that.

Found this on Tumblr by ashilyseven

In the beginning, I didn't like his voice acting much. The Felton-Malfoy style pronunciation of Potter in particular was icky.

However, I must say he nailed the character in Half-Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows. Raj Swamy and Mylo Khan also did well as adolescent and child Severus respectively.

Screenshot is from the Finding Harry documentary.

soure: @nowhere3girl on pinterest