Why it makes sense that Snape died... by AllOutOfBubblegum, journal
Why it makes sense that Snape died...
Now that I have probably angered a bunch of Snape fans, let me explain.
I love Snape and his death broke my heart, and of course I wanted him to live! I wanted him to live because I felt he deserved better than dying the way he did, never having a chance to really make his own life, as he was always bound to his dead love, his guilt, mistakes, and his masters.
However when I really think about it in a canon sense, and more detached from my Snape-love, it really makes perfect sense to me that he died and it seems right that he did.
If Snape had survived the war, what sort of life would he have had after? Fanfictions deal with this a lot, an
Severus Snape and J.K. Rowling's Words by ls269, journal
Severus Snape and J.K. Rowling's Words
Has the world of fantasy ever produced a character more provocatively mysterious more dramatic in appearance more morally ambiguous more downright compulsive than Severus Snape? Well, maybe, but it's easy to forget every other character when you're basking in the full glare of his sarcastic sense of humour, his dark, dramatic appearance, and his hard-line approach to classroom discipline.
That's how we came to launch the Spinners--End (https://www.deviantart.com/spinners--end) group. We'd had so much fun reading about this complex, contradictory character that we wanted to share all the images that J.K. Rowlings well-chosen words had created in
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Snape is just nasty, right? 1 by whitehound, literature
Literature
Snape is just nasty, right? 1
But Snape is just nasty, right? Part 1
a consideration of the evidence for Our Hero being exceptionally unpleasant
We know now that Snape is definitely one of the Good Guys, but this essay looks at the evidence that he is nevertheless a markedly unpleasant person, as often portrayed in fanon where the expression "IC (In-Character) Snape" means a Snape who is cold, spiteful, emotionless, domineering and cruel. Because Potter fandom is so vast, for anybody who reads fanfics on a regular basis the sheer volume of fannish stories can outweigh the original books, until it becomes difficult to keep track of what is canon and what fanon
When did Snape defect, and when did the Potters go into hiding?
In the scene in The Three Broomsticks in PoA, Fudge says that during Vold War One Dumbledore had "a number of useful spies", one of whom (Snape, in fact) warned him that You-Know-Who was after the Potters. Dumbledore alerted James and Lily at once and advised them to go into hiding, and recommended the Fidelius Charm. They performed the Fidelius, and "barely a week" later they were betrayed by their Secret Keeper.
Although we don't know exactly when Peter first betrayed the Potters, Fudge doesn't know either, so when he refers to this betrayal he must be t
And why Severus Snape's death-scene lacks all of them.
For a lot of the people who read The Deathly Hallows, Snape's death was the least of their worries.
At the time, we didn't even know he was on the side of good. As we open up The Prince's Tale, we're still reeling from the deaths of Lupin, Tonks and Fred Weasley. And then, by the end of the chapter, we find out that the hero of all seven books has to sacrifice his life in order to ensure Voldemort's downfall. Does that leave room for Severus Snape?
Somehow, yes.
With The Prince's Tale, we're given a strange, wistful, childhood love story a bizarre eddy in the flow of the narrat
Severus Snape - Tragic Hero by WeAreSevenStudios, literature
Literature
Severus Snape - Tragic Hero
Harry Potter's Tragic Hero:
Severus Snape
by Lilli Blackmore
Professor Severus Snape is one of the most complex characters in the Harry Potter series. He has been called a villain, a hero, an anti-hero, and "a very bad man," all with good reason. Each of these titles, however, depends upon one's definitions of a villain and a hero. In this essay, I offer another, slightly more objective definition, as well as a defense for it: the tragic hero.
Tragedy, the literary and dramatic genre frequently associated with theatre, is one of the world's oldest storytelling forms. The classical tragic hero is typically the protagonist of the
It isn't easy to explain why you love Severus Snape to other fans, let alone to the so-called 'normal' people you have to meet every day. To anyone who thinks the books are just for children, you run the risk of seeming emotionally immature, if not definitively insane. But there are lots of good reasons, if people would only open their minds, why Severus Snape obsession is a very understandable, and even logical, phenomenon.
This essay (mostly new work, but with some excerpts from my DA journal articles as well) is about why he appeals to me, and why he pretty much sums up every good experience I've had with reading in one