[ SECRET POST #3328 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3328 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, what a weird and obsessive crusader against fictional characters you are. Whatever the mirror inversion of a Snapewife is, you're it.

If this were a contest, Snape and all his pettiness and moral discord would win hands down, because he is way, way more interesting than you. His role and his behavior exist partly to create sympathy for the Gryffindors; his spite puts us on Neville and Harry's side. He's also the intermediary link between Harry and Tom Riddle: three lost boys, three unwanted kids, three half-bloods (although Harry's mum is, as always, something of an exception). Riddle is the sociopathic product of rape incapable of love, Snape is the bullied and neglected loner who fails at love, Harry is the emotionally abused orphan who loves others enough to die for them. Snape is a necessary part of the spectrum, neither as horrible as Riddle nor as good as Harry.

Frankly, I'd rather read about cruel, conflicted, doomed characters like Snape, characters who serve multiple purposes in the stories they inhabit, than whatever it is you'd probably suggest. Snape is a fascinating and self-punishing asshole who was given one of the best narrative arcs in the series, and it's a character type plenty of people love to read about, me included.

Case in point: I like Neville, but I don't feel compelled to read fic about him. Except for - and God, the exceptions are so often the most memorable - things like this wonderful Snape/Neville fic (yes, ayrt, Snape/Neville fic exists, and all the pearl-clutching in the world will not change that): Night-blooming heartsease (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1104139). I highly recommend it to the more open-minded FS posters.