[ SECRET POST #2394 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2394 ⌋

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[herongale]

But... love ISN'T different from all those other emotions. It's obviously a more POSITIVE emotion than some of those things, but in terms of the human quality of being a "feeling" it's basically the same. And so what if his love was greedy, obsessive, selfish? That still doesn't make it not love.

I think to me that what it comes down to is whether I believe that people (and, by extension, fictional characters) are allowed to name their own feelings. All that really matters to ME is that Snape himself labels what he felt as "love." It doesn't make his love admirable or anything (although I'd argue that there were at least some admirable qualities mixed in there... Snape had a slight bit of nuance and complexity, more than Rowling put into most of her characters anyway). Look, I'm not any kind of Snape/Lily shipper nor am I a Snape apologist but I don't find it helpful to deny that anti-heros or villains can experience the full complement of full human emotions, even if they express those emotions in less than ideal ways.

I'm not opposed to adding adjectives to define his love in negative ways. I'm just opposed to anyone who thinks they can say it wasn't love, because it suggests to me an unrealistic and overly idealized understanding of what love is, one that isn't actually at all helpful in the real world where bad people fall in love ALL THE TIME.

So yeah. I call it obsessive love. I call it greedy love. I call his love selfish and possessive. But I don't say that it wasn't love.