[ SECRET POST #4051 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4051 ⌋

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Comments

[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.