Snape Discourse is perhaps a topic that has been argued to death, but will never truly be over until the Harry Potter fandom itself is over.ĭue to J.K. On the other side, you have people who think that he was very noble for his actions in the grand scheme of the plot, if a flawed person, who may or may not think his infatuation with Lily was romantic rather than creepy, and may or may not want to fuck him themselves.

Snape is a controversial character because on one side you have people who think that his motivation for staying 'good' (obsession with Lily) was creepy, and also there was the fact that he was wizard-racist to Lily, which was probably a major reason why she didn't like him back, and also that his Heroic Deeds did not absolve him of emotionally abusing children.

He is portrayed as a martyr when he dies, and there is the infamous scene in the epilogue where Harry names his son after Dumbledore and Snape, citing them as the 'two bravest men ever knew' (Dumbledore is also a controversial character, but that's a tangent). Near the end of the series, it's revealed that Snape was in love with Lily, Harry's (dead) mother, who was one of the Good Guys, the whole time and that's why his true loyalty was always to the Good Guys. Anyway there's seven long books, stuff happens, Snape turns out to be this double agent for the bad guys and the good guys at the same time. It's no wonder that Harry doesn't trust him. None of the other staff really do anything about this. Throughout the series he's pretty much shown to be a massive cunt to literal children, particularly hating Harry because he looks like his (dead) father who bullied Snape during their school days, mocking Hermione for daring to know things, and bullying Neville for apparently no reason. Snape is a teacher at the wizard school Hogwarts, teaching Potions.

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