Snaters really are everywhere
I made a post entitled About Snape and Lily's friendship in the subreddits r/harrypottertheories and r/HarryPotteronHBO. In that post I tried to make my point about Lily's lack of empathy for Snape during their friendship, even though she made excuses for him for years, she never put herself in his shoes for a moment. I pointed this out in my post, but they hate Snape so much they refuse to see it. I've taken some more screenshots which I'll leave in the comments.
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Well, I completely disagree, like everyone else.
Lily should have spoken about snapes situation and convinced her parents to take him in: she’s a child/teen, you can’t put that level of responsibility on a minor. The potters were wealthy, they could take care of Sirius, no problem. We don’t know if Lily’s parents could have the space or even afford that. It’s completely different from Ron, too, Harry gets along with all the Weasleys. Snape openly antagonized petunia. Also, we don’t know if lily never openly spoke up about his situation to her parents. Do I need to mention again that you can’t put that level of responsibility on a child?
snape wasn’t that much of an outcast, like you’re saying. He’s obviously an introvert, but he has friends (they’re death eaters, but still). Close friends? I don’t know, but he socializes within slytherin. And We don’t know if lily never tried to include him in her group of friends, but one thing we see repeatedly is that snape is usually very possessive of lily, so even if she kept trying, it probably wouldn’t work. Can you imagine snape in the middle of teenage girl talk? Yeah, me neither.
We don’t know that Lily “took James’ side” in the whole worst memory thing. I’d be willing to bet that she didn’t take any sides and was mad at the both of them. James bullied Snape, yes, but Snape is not just a victim; he fights back.
people do say things they don’t mean when they’re angry, I get that. BUT, calling someone a mudblood in the books is like using a racial/homophobic slur. No matter how angry I am, I still wouldn’t use a racial slur on anyone, even less call a friend that. There’s no excuse, specially because he does call other people that.
people can’t be responsible for their friends bad life choices. We can try to talk them out of it, we can try to help, we can be there when they get out. When Snape’s choice involve exterminating people like Lily, it’s 100% understandable why she made the decision to not be friends with him. It wasn’t just the slur, it was his constant bad decisions that culminated in him calling her a mudblood. He knew what he was getting into and he made the choice to join.
we don’t know that she completely cut him off her life, we assume that because it’s his worst memory.
where did you get that she’s convinced all slytherins are evil? We don’t know that. Also, slytherin gets all the contempt from the other 3 houses? Again, we don’t know that. And snape wanted to be in slytherin. Why would she try to save him from that, from the very beginning?
in Lily’s opinion, James doesn’t use dark magic. It’s not her opinion. James doesn’t use dark magic, and snape even makes his own dark magic spells (sectumsempra).
Can you imagine having a Jewish friend and consciously making the decision to join the nazi party in the middle of the 2nd world war? Because that what it was, basically. It’s not acceptable. No matter how you paint it. And you’re saying the Jewish never showed empathy for the Nazi, and failed to prevent that he became a Nazi.
I made a post entitled About Snape and Lily's friendship in the subreddits r/harrypottertheories and r/HarryPotteronHBO. In that post I tried to make my point about Lily's lack of empathy for Snape during their friendship, even though she made excuses for him for years, she never put herself in his shoes for a moment. I pointed this out in my post, but they hate Snape so much they refuse to see it. I've taken some more screenshots which I'll leave in the comments.
Here are the links to the subreddits where I made this post 👇👇👇
Here's a negative comment I wasn't able to screenshot 👇👇👇
Well, I completely disagree, like everyone else.
Lily should have spoken about snapes situation and convinced her parents to take him in: she’s a child/teen, you can’t put that level of responsibility on a minor. The potters were wealthy, they could take care of Sirius, no problem. We don’t know if Lily’s parents could have the space or even afford that. It’s completely different from Ron, too, Harry gets along with all the Weasleys. Snape openly antagonized petunia. Also, we don’t know if lily never openly spoke up about his situation to her parents. Do I need to mention again that you can’t put that level of responsibility on a child?
snape wasn’t that much of an outcast, like you’re saying. He’s obviously an introvert, but he has friends (they’re death eaters, but still). Close friends? I don’t know, but he socializes within slytherin. And We don’t know if lily never tried to include him in her group of friends, but one thing we see repeatedly is that snape is usually very possessive of lily, so even if she kept trying, it probably wouldn’t work. Can you imagine snape in the middle of teenage girl talk? Yeah, me neither.
We don’t know that Lily “took James’ side” in the whole worst memory thing. I’d be willing to bet that she didn’t take any sides and was mad at the both of them. James bullied Snape, yes, but Snape is not just a victim; he fights back.
people do say things they don’t mean when they’re angry, I get that. BUT, calling someone a mudblood in the books is like using a racial/homophobic slur. No matter how angry I am, I still wouldn’t use a racial slur on anyone, even less call a friend that. There’s no excuse, specially because he does call other people that.
people can’t be responsible for their friends bad life choices. We can try to talk them out of it, we can try to help, we can be there when they get out. When Snape’s choice involve exterminating people like Lily, it’s 100% understandable why she made the decision to not be friends with him. It wasn’t just the slur, it was his constant bad decisions that culminated in him calling her a mudblood. He knew what he was getting into and he made the choice to join.
we don’t know that she completely cut him off her life, we assume that because it’s his worst memory.
where did you get that she’s convinced all slytherins are evil? We don’t know that. Also, slytherin gets all the contempt from the other 3 houses? Again, we don’t know that. And snape wanted to be in slytherin. Why would she try to save him from that, from the very beginning?
in Lily’s opinion, James doesn’t use dark magic. It’s not her opinion. James doesn’t use dark magic, and snape even makes his own dark magic spells (sectumsempra).
Can you imagine having a Jewish friend and consciously making the decision to join the nazi party in the middle of the 2nd world war? Because that what it was, basically. It’s not acceptable. No matter how you paint it. And you’re saying the Jewish never showed empathy for the Nazi, and failed to prevent that he became a Nazi.