[ SECRET POST #2737 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/u0oPbuL.png

[thezmage]

It's rather moot, isn't it? Neither of them got to be a father.

James would have made a better teacher, though. He'll, a bucket on a coat rack would make a better teacher.

[cushlamochree]

I guess it's not impossible but I'm not sure what your evidence is. Only one of them was racist, and only one of them was emotionally abusive and cruel towards kids he was in charge of. And it sure as hell wasn't James.

[(Anonymous)]

Movie!Snape is a relatively decent guy, and I could see him being a lovably grouchy dad. But book!Snape is awful not only in how he treats his least favorites but in how he treats his favorites. If he raised Harry like he taught Malfoy, I can see nothing good coming of it.

[kallanda_lee]

Well, on the account of him not being dead - probably. But, as someone else said, it's a moot point. If Snape was Harry's dad, then Harry Potter would have been a very different person to begin with.

[loracarol]

To Harry?

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Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[nan]

Do we know anything about James' parenting skills other than the fact that he died trying to protect his wife and son?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's necessarily true. I think he would have been very like Cedric Diggory - popular and well loved if James had raised him. Probably a little bit arrogant and maybe even a bit of a bully, as James was shown to be in Snape's memories.

I think Harry would have turned out more like Draco if Snape had raised him.

[(Anonymous)]

bullshit

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, because he looked after the children in his care in the books so well.

Oh wait.

[(Anonymous)]

Why though?

[(Anonymous)]

If the flashback in DH is anything to go by, Snape would've handed Harry over and made a run for it with a distraught Lily. James at least tried to save his family.

[skippydelicious]

Dude, I'll defend Snape from a lot of the crap he gets, but on this? Are you high? I mean, I'll agree he probably would have done better than Tom Riddle's parents, but that is as far as I'll go. I don't think Snape would even have outdone the Malfoys in the parenting stakes.

[toku_mei]

Well, one of them is dead, so...

[greenvelvetcake]

I mean, he was such a good, caring teacher, how could he not be a good father?

[morieris]

this only gets me to wondering how he would treat a child of his own that didn't have Lily as a mother, as if his obsessive love went that deeply to neglect his own blood.

[(Anonymous)]

I love Snape. He is my favorite. He is the reason I gave the series a chance past the first book.

That being said, I'm utterly confident he would have ended up as abusive or nearly so as his own father had been. Not from wanting to, but because, aside from Lily, most everything Snape was ever exposed to seemed to be of negative and/or demoralizing influence, and he himself possessed an inherently dickish nature. He had no chance. The best outcome possible for Snape would have been being a hermit for the rest of his life while researching outlandishly complex potions. He shouldn't have been instructing anyone. If he had been given brilliant students, he still would have found fault. He's the type who probably would have begrudged anyone who got his tasks completed expertly and found a way to discredit them anyhow.

[comradesmiler]

NOPE.avi

[(Anonymous)]

Because if anyone screams "nurturing", it's definitely Snape, the guy who terrorizes children and who was literally the thing that Neville feared more than anything else in the world when he was younger considering that a boggart assumed his shape

[tasogare_n_hime]

No way, especially not if his parenting was anything like his teaching. Honestly I think if he had somehow gotten together with Lily, Snape might have come to resent any children they had for getting between Lily and himself. That's just me though.

[(Anonymous)]

As a die-hard Snape fangurl I just don't see him as a good father. When you come from an abusive home it takes so much to work past those issues to be a good parent and not just repeat the cycle of abuse. Snape never had a chance to get the tools he needed to learn to be a good parent. Every parental figure including Dumbledore screwed him over so he never really had much of a chance.

But that is what fanfiction is for. To right all the wrongs done to our favorite characters and to give them another chance. So yes Fanfiction!Snape can make one hell of a good Daddy.

[gabzillaz]

Ah yes, he was so good with children.

[(Anonymous)]

I sincerely disagree with you on this.

Snape couldn't even be civil to Neville, a kid who did nothing more than happen to be a possible "other" for the prophecy. He tortured the poor kid.

He made Hermione cry.

He openly favored his own house and gave out unfair punishments.

He threatened a kid with truth serum.

Did I mention Neville? The kid whose boggart took shape of Snape?

I mean, the guy used a potion he was pretty sure was royally fucked up on a toad as punishment and then punished Hermione for helping Neville make it so that his pet wouldn't die!

Snape would have made an absolute horrible father, probably would have been a lot like Lucius Malfoy.

[(Anonymous)]

Snape is like my favourite character in Harry Potter, but I have no illusions about his character. If he got to raise Harry in anything other than a completely different AU of the HP World I'm pretty sure he would have been an emotionally abusive (if not physically) father and foster in Harry intense insecurities which probably would express themselves as cruel arrogance. You know, kind of like Snape himself.

If Snape as an adult couldn't bring himself not to mercilessly torture students he didn't like for fun (Not even just talking about Harry - what about Neville? And Hermione could have been the greatest potions student ever and have easily inherited his Half Blood Prince potions throne if he'd fostered her talent instead of putting her down at every opportunity), like hell he could have raised a child in an emotionally healthy environment.

[(Anonymous)]

Because he was so good with children?

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