hey guys! so if you know anything about me, you probably know that i am a huge harry potter
fan, i have read all the books many a time and can practically quote the movies by heart.
i am a ravenclaw, i also have this hermione granger wand that used to light up when you
shake it but literally broke yesterday even though i haven't touched it in like five years
and when i decide now to pick it up again it decides to break so you know, kind of upset
about that; and a wand of my own that i got in ollivander's in harry potter world in
orlando when i was like eleven.
i also got this snitch there, which also used to work but doesn't anymore, it would shake
its wings when you press this little button here but whatever it's cool .
also i'm usually sitting in front of it and my huge hermione granger hair covers it a
lot of the time, but this is always in the background when i'm filming. this part of
the video was really just for me to show off my merch.
i'm a harry potter fan.
i have a lot of thoughts about the books and the movies and the spinoffs like cursed child
fantastic beasts and a very potter musical, but today i will be sticking pretty canotically
to the seven books, because i want to talk about severus snape. and if you haven't
read all the books or at least watched all the movies, which, in the year of our lord
2018 i hope to god applies to no one, yeah, there's gonna
be some spoilers.
so first things first: i don't particularly like severus.
um, i have a list of reasons up here that would probably deplete the world of trees
if i were to ever write them down on paper, but for the sake
of time today i will focus on his asshole-y behavior towards just a few characters.
namely, hermione, neville, obviously harry, and also the marauders. and i will kind of
speed through the first three because i have a LOT to say about the others.
so.
hermione jean granger. who, according to professor snape, is "an insufferable know-it-all"
(PoA).
not really something that a professor should be saying about students.
at least to their face.
<also just as a side note that has nothing to do with this video, um, in the movies ron
agrees with him and says "he's got a point you know" whereas in the books ron gets detention
for standing up to snape for that line, so conclusion: always read the books, they're
better>
hermione didn't have the best time at hogwarts socially, a big source of, a significant source
of bullying towards her, especially in the earlier books, were about the size of her
teeth.
when slytherin students in GoF enchanted them to keep growing and growing
and growing and growing, literally all snape said to that was "i see no difference."
and that led her to alter them permanently through magic after that so that they would
be smaller, which, you know, really helps a girl's self-esteem, right?
neville longbottom.
let's talk about him for a second: so, he saw his parents tortured into insanity by
voldemort supporters, and he was raised by his grandmother who was actually kind of,
like, abusive to him??
like his relatives literally once dangled him out of a window to see if he had magic
because he wasn't showing signs of it. and his grandmother was constantly on his back
about his grades at hogwarts
<while ignoring the fact that she was the one who had given him his father's wand
so in his case, "the wand [did NOT] pick the wizard" which was probably the source
of his struggles in school>
sorry that was another tangent, but after all of this, tiny little thirteen-year-old
neville STILL describes his biggest fear to remus lupin as: professor snape.
he constantly
targeted him in potions. in PoA snape fed neville's potentially failed potion to neville's
own frog just so that if it were wrong he would have killed the frog; and then proceeded
to take points away from gryffindor when trevor lived because "hermione must've helped him
with it"
and harry freakin' potter! um, now, there's a lot i could say about this, on this point,
but i don't want this video to be like six hours long and i do have a lot to say about the
marauders, so quickly: in general, if you love a woman, shouldn't you, like, treat
her kid with respect? or at LEAST be nice to him?
right, apparently not, and despite the fact that he is lily evans' son, harry's only crime
is having james potter as a father.
literally, the first thing that severus does to harry is, "oh, famous mr potter, why
don't you tell us the difference between these two plants that are literally the same
plant, i just gave you two names for literally the same plant," to embarrass him on his first
day of wizard school after being raised by muggles his entire life.
very mature snape.
and in OotP - the occlumency lessons: snape did not prepare him at all.
he literally just jumped into harry's mind, and then when harry defended himself and got
into snape's mind, he got mad and threw him out and then refused to help him anymore.
yeah that's cool it's not like voldemort was trying to get in there to ruin everything.
in conclusion, severus snape should not have been a teacher.
he was horrible with kids, he didn't like kids, he should not have been a professor.
who gave him this job?
albus dumbledore?
i can talk about him in a different video because i do have a lot of feelings about
him, but for right now, let's just move on to the marauders.
so, yes.
james potter bullied severus snape.
that's not good.
bullying is not condoneable (that's not a real word is it) in any standard, especially
the humiliation that james put severus through.
but severus' response to that bullying was to call his "best friend" who had tried
to help him in the situation a racial slur, and then he got angry when she dumped him
as a friend.
see, james at least realized that he was being an ass and changed his asshole-y ways when
he realized it was the thing keeping him from lily; severus joined a fascist hate group
that discriminated against people like her
later on, he implored voldemort to save lily AT THE COST OF her husband and son.
he didn't care about the people she loved, he only cared about her.
he just had this obsession with her
<and another side note, he makes fun of tonks later on when her patronus changes to match
remus', and he doesn't like the fact that james' is a stag and lily's is a doe, when
his is literally a doe, like come on.
it really shows the difference between love, which is shown by the the compatibility of
james and lily's patronuses, vs obsession, which is severus literally mimicking lily.
PoA was when i really started losing respect for severus snape, because throughout that
entire book he was just constantly attacking remus lupin.
like that defense against the dark arts class that he taught in his place - he took away
the opportunity for remus to teach about werewolves himself.
he painted them as monsters and didn't give remus the opportunity to portray them in a
different light, one that would stop the stigmatization of the disease.
he also does this for the sole purpose of hoping a student would find out that he is
a werewolf so he would get fired. and speaking of this, he got remus lupin fired from hogwarts
after he had been homeless and without a job for almost two decades because of his "furry
little problem," i mean, severus could've just kept making the wolfsbane potion but
nOOoOoO he had to expose remus and send away the literal best teacher the students had
ever had i'm sorry i have a lot of remus lupin feels, he deserved so much better.
and speaking of people who deserve so much better, sirius black.
severus literally wanted to give sirius up to the dementors knowing he was innocent in
PoA. and he was CONSTANTLY threatening sirius also with exposure during the fourth and fifth
books.
like the poor dog star dude was cooped up in the home where he had spent his abusive
childhood, yeah he wanted to be able to leave sometimes, and snape just made it all the
more harder for him.
sure, in the end he was all secretly on the right side the whole time or whatever, but
he literally only came back to dumbledore when voldemort killed lily. he was fully ready
to be a death eater full time if voldemort had spared her because screw all the other
muggle-borns, right?
and all that said, who evens knows if lily would've ended up with severus if she didn't
end up with james?
i mean, it's not like it's not like he owns her, she might've found another perfectly
nice guy that doesn't call her racial slurs and dabble in dark magic in his free time.
he just wanted to prove himself.
he just wanted to prove that that he was a smart and powerful wizard, first to impress
lily. he thought that becoming a death eater would impress her even though death eaters
hate muggle-borns, and when that didn't work and she cut him off
<which, side tangent again, by the way, happened years before she even thought about dating
james potter so it's not like he "stole" her from him>
he decided that he'd just get back at her by being a death eater, the best racist terrorist
there was.
yeah, what a stand-up guy.
severus snape is a wonderful character, he has depth and motive and he is complicated,
but he's still a pretty horrible person.
a horrible person who did some brave things, sure.
but also a horrible person who bullied children as a teacher and only disassociated himself
from a hate movement when it personally affected him and was a dick to the child of the woman
he loved just because someone else was his father.
i mean, it's not like harry ever even knew his parents.
severus literally took out a twenty-year-old grudge against a childhood bully on his abused
and orphaned son.
but sure.
the bravest man i've ever known.
so. if you haven't realized by now, i don't really like severus snape.
but what are your thoughts?
do you agree or not? and are there other characters, from harry potter or other book series, that
you want me to talk about?
i already mentioned that i love remus and sirius and i am fully prepared to make a ten-hour
video about how they deserved so much better, but i was also thinking i could talk about
dumbledore, or draco, like some other more controversial characters.
um, let me know.
thank you guys for watching, and i'll see you in another life.
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