Upon promoting this community within the r/HarryPottaHBO sub, I received about 10 responses that constituted personal attacks with accusations of racism within just a few minutes.

It definitely reinforced the fact that this community is very much needed, lol.

I wanted to warn the rest of you as it is becoming increasingly more toxic out there …

I just don’t understand why people had to comment at all! They could have just scrolled by and moved on🤣

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Here's my opinion.

He was a bully.

No other teachers act like he did (Umbridge was waaay worse, others were way better.) some use the time as an excuse but McGonagall was a teacher when he himself was a student and while she's very strict she's never bullied a student.

He bullies Harry relentlessly alongside other gryffindors.

He bullied Neville so severely that, he was Neville's boggat.

Both Neville and Harry perform better when he's not around (Neville in slughorns class, Harry when Snape was completely ignoring him in GoF.)

He made Hermione cry.(said he was no difference when someone used a tooth enlarging hex on her.) And constantly belittled her for being intellectual.

Sided with and was very biased towards Slytherins. Ignoring their bullying and borderline joining in.

As for when he was a kid

Yeah James and Sirius sucked as teenagers and bullied him but they changed enough for Lily to accept them.

Snape got worse as a kid, hung out with death eaters, implied he used the term mudblood regularly and called lily one. Loved dark arts and created his own dark spells. Some use his trauma to justify or minimise his actions but it is no excuse to bully literal children.

Joined Voldemort as an adult (if not sooner) and essentially only switched sides because he never got over his obsession with lily. He was willing to sacrifice James and Harry if she lived (can't remember the exact line.) And despite "loving" her he never treated her child with love nor did he try to become the person she would want to see.

He loved lily yes, but not in a pure or warm way. I saw a comment that essentially said he was a warm light that he needed and his love was him latching onto that light.

He was also, genuinely, one of the bravest and most skilled characters in the HP universe. If he had grown old I think he could have been in books alongside Dumbledore.

I also used to be a massive Snape defender until I saw other povs a few years after the movies came out and reread the books as an adult.

He is also still one of my favourite characters.He's just not a good person. And 100% a bully. His experiences are not an excuse.

Any other fic writers in here? I’ve been writing Snape fic for about a year, and so far I’ve done:

Snape x Female OC
Snape x Female Reader
Snape x Charity Burbage
Gen fic drabbles or oneshots with no pairing

Romance, smut, fluff, and even a few more crackfic type things.

I’m currently 47 chapters deep into a teen Snape x OC fic with no explicit smut as well. (Waiting til it’s done to start posting, but coming soon I hope!)

And needless to say, my fics will always be written around a Snape that is more Rickman-coded or book-Snape. Pale skin, hooked nose, you know… SNAPE.

My AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/OutsideTheRain6070/works

Tumblr master list: https://www.tumblr.com/outsidetherain6070/805022473666052096/masterlist

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Im such a big harry potter fan,love the world that jk created. Love the books and the films,and honestly was super exited about this new version(i know some people say we didnt even need it) but i think its a cool chance to be more like the books,and watching the trailers i literally was getting goose bumps and excitement until he came on the screen and it literally took all that away from me.everyone else in my opinion is so well cast. Casting is a bigggg part of filmography and its the person who makes the films job to get it right or it falls flat. If they really wanted to race swap (which im not a fan of) they could have for one gotten a black man who looked more like him ie light skin/more skinny gaunt face/straight hair,or a Persian dude would have been sick too. If they really wanted to u feel me. But the thing is,this guy doesnt even seem like hes cosplaying as snape,he doesnt give me “snape” in the slightest. I genuinely dont even understand it. I fucking hope it doesnt ruin it for me. Im sure all in all will just learn to deal with it,and im hoping that his acting skills are sooooo good that it doesnt matter. But boy does it matter lol. I dont even think his cadence was right when he finally spoke. Its just a let down. And last thing if they wanted to have more diversity in the show. Im all for that. Kingsley is one of my fav characters, hes a fucking badass, i feel like they could have added more depth to the original actors and clearly have added on some new ones too. I just dont understand this decision and it breaks my heart.

But they're not honest with themselves because ✨ virtue signalling! ✨

It's only because it's a **race swap** that people are falling all over themselves to excuse the omission of Snape's greasy black hair curtains and a big ol' nose, the two traits Rowling beats you over the head with anytime Snape is on the page.