Severus Snape
Why Snape’s Tragic Back Story Isn’t So Tragic • Dorkly • 2015 Mar 31
Yeah, while I can see the monstrous lurking misogyny in Snape’s backstory, as a guy who was inculcated by the patriarchy and who is still in the process of being deprogrammed, I still find some parts of Snape relatable. In my headcanon, Snape isn’t somehow trying to redeem himself to his quasinecrophiliac idealization of Lily, he’s simply realized that he’s committed unforgivable atrocities in the name of a misguided sense of sexual entitlement, that now he’s totally doomed anyway, and so he’s trying to do the best he can achieve with the total shambles he’s made of his life.
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