r/SeverusSnape

Trying to figure out Snape’s real values. 👀

Snape doesn’t face any negative consequences from Lily when being hostile to her son, because she’s dead. Would he act differently if she was alive?

The hypotheticals below forces him into a dilemma: - respect Lily and treat Harry right,
- or treat Harry wrong and disrespect Lily.

Note: Of course we need to pretend that Lily don’t mind seeing Snape, and that Snape is oblivious to the fact that she’s changed her mind on that point. Otherwise he’d be in a position to take advantage of her, and that’s not the goal to find out here.

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Hypothetical 1:

Lily is alive, Harry is 10 years old living with her. James is not present. Somehow, Snape is hanging out with Lily on the regular. How do you think Snape would treat Harry?

a) Be hostile to Harry like usual in front of Lily
b) Be hostile to Harry behind Lily’s back
c) Be neutral to Harry strategically to win Lily’s respect
d) Be neutral to Harry out of respect for Lily

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Hypothetical 2:

Snape is teaching 11 year old Harry at Hogwarts. Lily is alive. How do you think Snape would treat Harry?

a) Be hostile to Harry out of spite like usual
b) Be neutral to Harry strategically to gain Lily’s trust and respect
c) Be neutral to Harry out of pure respect for Lily

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Question:

If Lily was alive with a 10 year old Harry on her side, James is not present, do you think Snape would ever even take the opportunity to hang out with Lily?

Yes or no?

If not, what would be his reason not to hang out with Lily?

a) He couldn’t stand Harry
b) He wouldn’t be able to refrain himself from being hostile to Harry — which he doesn’t want Lily to experience
c) He’s not interested for other reasons (what reasons?)

Just curious! I’m a Slytherin, but never had a crush on Snape until I was a teenager! I always thought his movie portrayal was handsome, though.

Never noticed any other houses in love with him. :)

I am looking for any sort of fic with YEARNER Snape. Like I dont want extreme bashing of ANY CHARACTER- Just a Snape who yearns. Any pairing would do. Though I'd prefer Snarry, Sevmione or Snape/Sirius. Please y'all- I need yearning so bad that your heart hurts reading and imagining it. Yk?

Hey guys,

I read the books when I was a child and I have recently reread them as an adult via the audible full cast audiobook. I say this as context, cause I never read any fics growing up so I don't know any of the big ones or good ones or anything like that.

What I'm looking for is Snape fics that are canon compliant and in some way explore his character in the months before he had to kil Dumbledore. Or the months after.

If you've got anything like that I would greatly appreciate it!

Any ships or rating. My only real trigger is noncon but even then I can read it if I have warning.

Thanks a lot!

I don’t think it grasped the seriousness and callousness of his actions when I first read the books. I used to think Snape was just an idiot for falling for it, and that Sirius just recklessly told him the truth, but now I'm not so sure.

From u/ItsASnitch:

/It is questionable if Snape did originally suspect Lupin was a werewolf.

The only implication that he knew we have is:

>“I know your theory,”

From Lily, which people take to mean he presented it to her multiple times for some reason. But this sentence makes perfect sense even if he just told it to her once prior to the conversation—which happens after the prank. So it's not a very convincing argument.

On the other hand,

Lupin calls it a "trick", Snape refers to it as "a highly amusing joke", and everyone else calls it a "prank" - all are implying there was some sort of deception going on not just "Hey there is a werewolf here's how you get to it." So yes, Sirius did deceive him in some way.

Luring someone or deceiving them to their death is still attempted murder.

Not to mention I don't think many people would consider even their bullies to go so far as to try to murder them. You are blaming Snape for assuming a classmate isn't going to use his best friend as a murder weapon. This is not an unreasonable assumption to have!

What Snape did suspect was that all of Marauders were doing something, he says they all sneak out at night and he saw Lupin with Madam Pomfrey.

>“They sneak out at night. There’s something weird about that Lupin. Where does he keep going?”

>"Sneaking around, trying to find out what we were up to… hoping he could get us expelled."

(The Marauders were animagi and were letting Lupin loose at this point. Snape didn't know that, just that they were all sneaking out to go after Lupin)

Lupin also implies Snape didn't know he was a werewolf before then.

>"He was forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody, but from that time on he knew what I was."

So Snape either:

-Didn't suspect Lupin was a werewolf (most likely)

-He did suspect Lupin was a werewolf but assumed he was also somehow restrained because the rest of Marauders were safe to go after him. So he most likely suspected what they were doing was releasing a werewolf. (Which was true)

Whichever it is - it is Sirius who is at fault and deserving punishment for tricking another student into a deadly situation and nearly turning his best friend into a murderer./

This comment convinced me Snape wasn't at fault for falling for the trick, but I was still conflicted about Sirius' motivations. If it was a reckless heat of the moment decision, he would've regretted it right? But JAMES was the one who recognized the gravity of Sirius' actions and saved Snape, not the other way around. Sirius also never regretted it and maintenance even as an adult that Snape deserved it just because he was trying to get them expelled (after years of bullying). And the worst part is, they probably did deserve expulsion because Lupin had "many near misses" aside from Snape where he could've bitten or killed someone.

It also didn't make sense to me why Sirius would tell Snape the secret if he was just trying to give him a scare. In that scenario, Snape would've gotten confirmation of Remus' secret and told the whole school. But if he ate him or bit him......the problem of Snape stalking them would've been solved. I think Sirius thought this attempted murder was him doing Lupin and the rest of the Marauders a favor.

There's no scenario in which you can really give Sirius the benefit of the doubt here.

You don’t have to like the ship itself, I’m just curious on what name’s people like. Either because they are funny, they are creative, ect.

It can also be a tag describing it. Like Princechaser being a tag for Jeverus and focuses on the complexity and emotional relationship dynamic of James Potter X Severus Snape

My favourites are
Prince chaser (Genius)
Doe chaser (Genius)

Recently discovered one being Stonks (Nymphadora Tonks x Severus Snape). I can’t get the Stonks meme out of my head

And ofcourse Snack. (Severus Snape x Sirius Black). It’s just so funny 😭

Hellooo I've been in search of some good adult main character (or of similar age) and Snape fics. My favorites are when the MC is a teacher as well. Ive seen lots of student/teacher fics and its not my thing :/ as well as aged up characters. Any recommendation are welcome! :D I mostly read on Ao3 but I am open to any websites.

Recently caught up on Broken Broomsticks by TheTallDwarf on ao3 and definitely recommend!