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⌈ Secret Post #4051 ⌋

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Comments

[killertofuuu]

I miss Alan Rickman, too. He breathed so much life into Snape's character. That voice. That body language. It was truly impressive. It was probably my favorite thing about the movies, come to think of it.

I totally get why people don't like Snape, and I'm kind of relieved to see critique and disgust for him as a person on the rise. He's no woobie, and would most likely be a terrible lover. If this were RL I'd say lock his ass up. Even so, I still love Snape's character, acknowledging fully that he's an absolutely horrible, bitter, prejudice husk of a man that torments children and gets away with it far too much... but I do love to watch a good (figurative) train wreck, and Snape delivers better than anyone in the HP world. He scratches a strange itch that I'm guilty of having. He was my favorite character for a long time, until one reread sold me even harder on Dumbledore. Dumbledore's also a pretty good train wreck, but he's a lot kinder overall, and I think that rounds him out better than Snape. It also helps that I personally find a lot of power and wisdom in kindness. This is just Dumbledore in the books, though. I wasn't overly satisfied with how he was in the movies. Rickman's Snape, though? A+

[(Anonymous)]

Dumbledore is such a train wreck, and he recognizes it and tries to fix it and half the time the ”fixes” make things worse. Snape spends his whole life cursing the world for doing him wrong, and even though he recognizes that he has something to do with his own problems, he never really makes an effort to understand where he went wrong or try to change for the better. They’re both tragedies, and they’re both fascinating, but I agree that Dumbledore’s the better-developed character.

[killertofuuu]

Yes! All of this comment exactly! Snape is one of my top examples of "s/he doesn't have to be a good person to be a good character." Right up there with Eric Cartman from South Park, or Walter White from Breaking Bad. Just a hell of a huge mess: broken dreams, bad choices, self-imposed conflict, failure to take responsibility, failure to notice who he's burned along the way, blaming everyone but himself, falling into the mental deathtrap of prejudice/bigotry, etc. and overall very little effort to acknowledge and atone for most of it. He did do right by Harry in a pinch a few times, though. Doesn't make up for everything, or even half of it, but it is something. And that something is part of what has me hooked on Snape to this day.

That being said, I have mixed feelings about Harry naming his third son for Severus, given all that Snape never did atone for; however, I think that choice says a lot more about who Harry is than who Snape was.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, the biggest problem I have with the naming is that "Albus Severus Potter" is just an ugly, ugly name. Like, they could have given the kid something he can work with. Give him a decent first name and then saddle him with two middle names, or make his middle name Albeverus or something. Combined with the fact that post-war wizarding Britain probably saw an upsurge in kids named Albus to the point where it's overly common, and this poor kid is going to end up going through life as Skip or Boomer or whatever the wizard equivalent is.

[killertofuuu]

I haven't even considered the likely upsurge in the name Albus at all, but that's an excellent point. And yeah, the name "Albus Severus" is as lovely as a migraine, which is part of my mixed feelings about it.