Snape Hate

snape hate

Let’s start from the beginning. Before Snape even reaches Hogwarts, he drops a tree branch on petunias head, which shows he wasn’t afraid to hurt people. We know that as a child, Snape was deeply invested in the dark arts. This was part of the the reason James hated him. Snape, in return hated James and the Marauders by extension. Snape complained about the Marauders to Lily, saying that their pranking was rude and mean. Snape however, was part of a friend group who bullied Mary McDonald, a friend of Lily’s. By bullying, I mean cursing her.

Snape also called Lily a mudblood when he was 15. He then tried to justify it by saying that she and she only was different. He also said it “slipped out” meaning he had been saying it in his head for a while.

Snap joins the death eaters, and tells Voldemort about the prophecy. When he finds out that the child in the prophecy is Harry, he begs Dumbledore to save Lily but he doesn’t care about James or Harry. If he really loved Lily he would want James and Harry safe too.

Fast forward 11 years, Harry’s first year at Hogwarts. On Harry’s first day, Snape asks Harry difficult potions questions which Harry didn’t know. As a professor, he should know that Harry only just found out he was a wizard. This is one of many examples of Snape bullying his students. Snape is often condescending to his students (minus the Slytherins). Perfect example being Neville. Neville's greatest fear was Snape, which is so messed up because a student shouldn’t be scared of his teacher; especially when this specific students parents were tortured into insanity by a death eater. Reasonably, Neville's greatest fear should be Bellatrix  Lestrange. Now there are many other occasions when Snape has bullied his students, but one that i remember vividly is when Draco hexed Hermione to make her teeth grow to an abnormal size. Snape looked at them and said, and I quote: “I see no difference.” Also, when Rita Skeeter was slut shaming Hermione in an article, Snape read it out loud in the class.

In Harry’s third year, Snape substitutes a class for Remus. In this class he teaches about werewolves, the homework he sets is how to recognize and kill them. Now not only does this risk exposing Remus, it takes away Remus’ right to teach werewolves as what they really were - afflicted people. Basically, when he exposed Remus, he took away Remus’ chances of getting another job in the wizarding world. Remember, Remus had lived in poverty for a majority of his life and being a professor at Hogwarts was his one chance to escape that. This is pretty annoying considering Remus was being civil to Snape. In the shrieking shack, Snape ignores Remus and Sirius and wants to give them to the dementors without listening to their story - all because of a childhood grudge. (Which the marauders matured from). Constantly made jabs at Sirius for not being able to do much for the order knowing that it wasn’t Sirius’ fault.

Physically abused Harry during occlumency lessons. When he was in Harry’s head for the occlumency lessons, he walked into the memory of the mirror of Erised and said: “feeling sentimental Potter”. Like what a jerk - as if he wasn’t the reason Harry had no parents.

That whole thing when he ripped apart a picture of a happy family to pretend Lily’s love was directed to him. That was creepy and obsessive. Walked over James’ body and ignored a crying child so he could cry over Lily’s dead body - a demonstration of his love, creepy and unhelpful. (I know this wasn't in the books, but most Snape stanners are movie watcher)

He invented the Sectumsempra spell. It was his specialty which shows that he used it a lot. He even cursed of George’s ear! This spell aims to kill which is slightly messed up for a 16 year old boy to make.

Now people try to justify his actions by saying that he had an abusive childhood. Sirius had an abusive childhood and still managed to be a good person. Harry was neglected and still managed to be a good person. Being abused as a child is no excuse to be a bad person.

They also try to justify his actions by saying he was in love with Lily. He was kind of obsessed with her but that’s a whole other debate. Just because he liked her, doesn’t mean him being a jerk should be ignored. What’s even creepier is that if Harry looked like Lily, Snape would’ve liked him.

Snape was brave by going spy, but that doesn’t mean we ignore his horrible actions. It’s doesn’t justify them either.