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Discuss Severus Snape

Big nose, brooding, rude, arrogance are just a few traits of Snape.

God i love the way he talks. He has that certain style, an air of elegance when he walks. You might think- elegance? Snape?!? yeah it's my viewpoint.
Anyone else agrees with my thoughts ?

I personally hated Snape until the sixth book. After that he is one of my favorite characters. I like that he always wears black, he is so strong due to the loss of Lily. I adore Snape.

I never understood why Snape was soo mean to Harry. Didn't he love his mother? So wouldn't he be nice to Harry?

Puff wrote: "I never understood why Snape was soo mean to Harry. Didn't he love his mother? So wouldn't he be nice to Harry?"

Yeah, but he hated James because he was a bully and "stole" Lily from him, and she was like the one person who was genuinely nice to him. The sins of the father and all that, I guess.

Oh! The complications of love ......

Severus was mean to Harry because he knew that Lily sacrificed herself to save Harry. I think that was why...

Ugh. He was not a hero and he never will be. Just because he saved Harry, doesn't mean anything. If anything, he was putting himself out of his misery and the guilt. He was the one who abused Harry for years and years as a professor, the one who joined Voldemort. Yeah, he may have his reasons, but there is no reason valid enough for this! Neville's biggest fear was SNAPE, and his parents had both been tortured and were not aware if who he was. Doesn't that speak for itself?

Severus is one of the most morally gray characters in harry potter. He was a jerk to his students and held a gruge for 11 years, but he gave his life for the wizarding world. Overall, I hate him as a person, but love him as a character

There is absolutely nothing about Snape that appeals to me. There wasn't a single moment in any of the books where I didn't 100% loathe him. I say this every time a disgusting, rude, horrible character is portrayed as a hero: tragic back stories explain horrible actions, they don't excuse them.
I personally don't understand what his hate for James has to do with the way he treated students. You guys have all been students at some point, so you know- it's hard, being a student. It's very. damn. hard. And when an a-hole teacher starts being mean to me, it's basically one of the worst things for me, ever, because I have social anxiety and teachers who bully students by way of expressing their own personal hatred for their own personal lives on students that have nothing to do with why they're so mad with not a single thought of what effect that has on their students, do not deserve to be around children.
Oh, and sometimes you don't get the girl. Sometimes the girl dies. That does not give you a reason to go out there and practically ruin the lives of people by bullying them at a young age.

As for the giving his life for the wizarding world part, that hardly makes him a martyr. Over a hundred people died in the Battle Of Hogwarts. Harry didn't name his kid after them.

YES. YES. OMG YESS. SNAPE does not deserve any pity, sure, maybe he did lead a miserable life, but that's his choice! If he had forgotten Lily, he could have not had such a terrible one.

Honestly dislike Snape so much, can not possibly understand why on earth he gets so much care, and why ON EARTH Harry would name his son after him. It's unacceptable, and falls into the same category as thinking that 50 shades is a good love story. ICK.

Snape was a shelfish git, nothing else. He treated his friend Lily as shit, calling her a mudblood. She did EVERYTHING to try to stay friends with him even though he had shady friends, even though no one else liked him, she was there. Until he called her a mudblood and she'd had enough. So she married someone else. She had a child. Snape needs to grow up because he's not in school anymore. He's not 15. He's an adult.

Firstly, he was perfectly willing to sacrifice a newborn and his family to Voldemort until he found out that his LOOOOVE would die too. Then he changed his mind.
Secondly, if he cared so much about Lily, why make her son so miserable he didn't want to be in the same room as him?
Thirdly, why be an asshole to everyone else too? Snape was rude as heck to all students that were not of his own house, and that likely can not be blamed on some girl he wanted back when he was FIFTEEN. He was almost 40 when he died! If I, at the age of 40, start abusing kids because of some guy who didn't like me when I was barely of legal age I hope someone punches me in the face. With a chair.

No honestly. Snape was a piece of crap, I'm happy he never got Lily because he simply didn't deserve her, and I'm disappointed in Harry for seeing that douchebag as some sort of hero.

I think is the most complex of characters because he had to hide the fact that he has always cared for harry until the final book

He never... Cared... About... Harry. Or any other student. It was only his love for Lily that made him protect Harry.

I actually cried when I found out Alan Rickman died

I actually cried when I found out Alan Rickman died

well in the 3rd book he was really mean. what he had done to lupin was sad. Introducted wearwolfs to kids like they are monsters. He also had told every one abaut lupin( being a wearwolf ). But I was also really sad for him( at the end) u know.. bc of his life story ...he was human after all.... sory for my bad English.

I totally agree! I hated him and his arrogance, until I got a peek into his past in book six. He is such a dynamic character. And as a side note Alan Rickman did such an amazing job really melding into the person j.k rowling created.

Snape is one of my favorite characters. I always thought he was so mean until the 6th book.

Honestly, I always liked Snape. He was seemingly mean and biased towards Harry, but after what James did to him, how could he not be? But in the end he was a good person and that's what counts.

I liked his voice, sarcasm, & the fact that Alan Rickman played him. That's about it

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He is just so missunderstood. He really loved Lily and Im team James all the way but still, poor Snape

trincker wrote: "Honestly, I always liked Snape. He was seemingly mean and biased towards Harry, but after what James did to him, how could he not be? But in the end he was a good person and that's what counts."

There is absolutely no excuse to take it out on a child.

I personally don't like Severus Snape for so many reasons. I don't understand how Harry is able to forgive him, HOWEVER I guess it's admirable that Harry is able to forgive him even when he made his life miserable for 6ish 7ish years.

Snape is a huge jerk. He bullies students and shows favoritism. Just because he had a bad childhood, that is no reason to bully kids. He humiliates Neville and constantly ridicules him which makes Neville nervous and makes him fail. He constantly bullies Harry throughout the books, i.e he throws Harry's assignment on the ground and then gives him a zero because he has nothing to turn in (book 5), that is just one example, I could give more if needed. While yes, he is on Dumbledoor's side, that shows that someone can have good morals but still be a horrible person. He doesn't believe in killing thousands of innocent people (yay?) so he must be an okay guy right? WRONG, time after time, Snape shows how mean and horrible he is. You might of had a bad life but that doesn't mean you can take it out on other people.

And on the subject of James: Yes, James was horrible to Snape, and he shouldn't be excuses for that. But James did mature and turn into a better person. Snape did not. He uses James as a excuse to take his anger out on Harry and other kids. If Snape had such a terrible childhood, then he needs therapy, not a job where he can hurt children.

Those are just my thoughts.

Becky wrote: "I personally don't like Severus Snape for so many reasons. I don't understand how Harry is able to forgive him, HOWEVER I guess it's admirable that Harry is able to forgive him even when he made hi..."

I totally agree with you

There is no justification for Harry naming his son after him...!

I absolutely hated Snape. Until the Deathly Hallows when Harry looks into Snapes memories. But i cant help but hating him when i watch the movies or read the books.

^^ditto

SNAPE is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I liked him during the pensive scenes, but not as an adult. He was so self absorbed and rude to Neville & Harry.
He was mean to Harry because he was Jame's offspring as well as Lily's, and mean to Neville because it could have been his parents that died.

Either way, he had no right to treat them the way he did. Ever.

I agree.

It was a love/hate relationship for me. Always.

Snaps is definitely my favorite character.From the beginning I knew there was something special about him and my Theory proved right in the deathly hollows.i still cry after they show his memories in the movie even though I have seen it a hundred times!

He's much better in the memories, he was just a troubled kid. But as an adult he was terrible.

I love Snape! Alan Rickman was amazing! RIP! The way he talked and walked and..well...acted the part was just so many ways and shades of perfect. Oh wait...nope...just black. Lol

I neither liked or disliked Snape, but I think I got the chance to understand him.
- Understand that he made a lot of bad choices and that he payed for them - with his life in the end. He did realize that he did wrong. And I believe that he hated himself for it.
- Understand that he loved Lily dearly and that he would have given his life for her - which is admirable. I am truly happy whenever an introverted, self-centered and selfish person finds that someone that makes them love themselves less and the other more. I think it is truly hard for them, opening up and letting the other settle in their heart.
- Understand that he protected her son, even though Harry remembered him of James more than he hoped to. I think that maybe his bullying of Harry had more to do with his fear of seeing too much of James in Harry, rather than Lily.
- Understand that the way he grew up has a lot to do with how he is as an adult. So I do not truly believe that a bad person is bad because he wants to be, but rather because he does not know any other way of being. ( But then again, I don't believe Snape to be bad, but rather ill-mannered and mean.)

Yeah...that's true

I admit I cried a lot the day Alan Rickman died. I hated Snape in the early HP years and after I was soo guilty. Did you know Alan Rickman was the only actor in HP who knew his fate when they started filming?

I did. I love Alan Rickman, and not even for his role as Snape really. Sense & sensibility was amazing, as was Galaxy Quest :)

Eve wrote: "I did. I love Alan Rickman, and not even for his role as Snape really. Sense & sensibility was amazing, as was Galaxy Quest :)"

He will definitely be remembered for such a great character, not just in Harry Potter but in all of his other movies.
~R.I.P Alan, we love you~

If you guys are here to hate on Snape, be logical about it. I am perfectly willing to listen to you as long as you don't start trying ad hominim attacks. Those aren't cool.
I like Snape so much because he really loved Lily. He did love Harry after a while, but he had to hide it because he was working for Voldemort. He killed Dumbledore unwillingly, to save Draco's soul and to spare Dumbledore. But I can see why you wouldn't like him, I guess.

I know there aren't any new comments, but Snape was my absolute favorite character. I always believed he was good. (I did doubt a little when he killed Dumbledore.)

He's actually a really relatable character to me. He made a huge mistake that drove the people he loved away from him and spent the rest of his life trying to fix it. We've all made big mistakes.

I want someone to love me as much as Severus Snape loved Lily. ❤️

Audra wrote: "...I want someone to love me me as much as Severus Snape loved Lily."

Agreed, but I want them to love me back and not someone else!

So true!

Thing is, people say, "See, he wasn't so bad, he really loved and had a good heart," but to me it's just as important how kind or pleasant people are every day, and he was just nasty all the time. Even at the end, I didn't feel much sympathy for him cause he was mean unnecessarily all the time.

I also wouldn’t call what he felt for Lily to be love so much as obsession. And he certainly never loved or cared for Harry.

Plus, he bullied the children in his classroom everyday for years. Sorry, he was not a good person with a good heart.

He did care for Harry at the end because you can see how upset he was that Harry was going to die.

If you had your one true love marry someone you hate, get killed by a dark wizard, and then you have to serve that dark wizard while actually working for good, wouldn't you be bitter and grumpy, too?

Because he was Lily's son, not because of Harry himself.

Being bitter and grumpy is one thing. Taking it out on your students by bullying them on a daily basis is another.

I've seen a lot of teachers bully their students daily in real life, too. He just makes their world not as far from reality.