WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT. It may not be until our kids get on the Interwebs, though! It'll be their Big Fandom. ...I will probably still want to play even if I'm old.
He was OBSESSED with Lily! Which I think is interesting, because it couldn't have REALLY been love at that point. She was long dead and he hadn't had much contact with her since school... so it was just regret, I think. And he was unable to move past the things that happened to him as a young man, which... made Snape a cranky, grumpy, bitter old man. But he was still a tragic, cranky old man--his having to be a triple agent for Dumbledore and Voldy especially breaks my heart, since it was probably one of the reasons he COULDN'T move on. He was continually faced with his past, and the decisions that he regretted... over and over and over again. He had to watch and Voldy hurt people and probably had to hurt people himself. And pretend to be loyal to the thing that had ruined his life.
So I can like Snape even though he bullied his students for six books. He's a flawed man, and it's not okay to bully kids, but everything about his life sucked. I would be mean to children too. At least they wouldn't be mean back.
I mean mostly I just want to read about Snape being happy, because he was NEVER HAPPY, and all of his nastiness I think stems from the fact that he's the SADDEST, LONELIEST MAN IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD. I don't like when people are sad. :(
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Date: Sunday, 19 December 2010 15:17 (UTC)He was OBSESSED with Lily! Which I think is interesting, because it couldn't have REALLY been love at that point. She was long dead and he hadn't had much contact with her since school... so it was just regret, I think. And he was unable to move past the things that happened to him as a young man, which... made Snape a cranky, grumpy, bitter old man. But he was still a tragic, cranky old man--his having to be a triple agent for Dumbledore and Voldy especially breaks my heart, since it was probably one of the reasons he COULDN'T move on. He was continually faced with his past, and the decisions that he regretted... over and over and over again. He had to watch and Voldy hurt people and probably had to hurt people himself. And pretend to be loyal to the thing that had ruined his life.
So I can like Snape even though he bullied his students for six books. He's a flawed man, and it's not okay to bully kids, but everything about his life sucked. I would be mean to children too. At least they wouldn't be mean back.
I mean mostly I just want to read about Snape being happy, because he was NEVER HAPPY, and all of his nastiness I think stems from the fact that he's the SADDEST, LONELIEST MAN IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD. I don't like when people are sad. :(
/snape fangirl