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Meta Monday

Jul 20, 2015 14:57

As promised, a bit of meta for your Monday.

We all know that Severus Snape was a man who wanted respect and recognition, even an Order of Merlin. Within HP fandom, he's been both loathed and romanticized, but recently, there's been a strong resurgence of Snape hate.

How do you think Snape would react to fandom?

meta monday, character analysis

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sassy_cat July 21 2015, 20:01:24 UTC

For the sake of cohesion and as additional proof that Snape fans think the same pretty much everywhere, here are the Tumblr answers and addons.

slytherinlock answered: he wouldn’t care, since he’s so use to being hated and hating himself. He would just go on like normal.
psychopompious answered: I think he’d be more shocked by anyone liking him than by being hated. Being hated is business as usual.
cats-offdensen added: I think he’d not care about the hate. Hell, he’d probably agree with most of it anyways.

Regarding the fans though, well, I think he’d be speechless and confused. It’s not like people say nice shit about him, let alone stand up for him (when he was alive). So seeing this would be very strange to him.
enoughofyourshitblr added: Well, at least people don’t use popular conventions to fuel the hate and spread falsehood about him… oh, wait.
the-meme-universe added: *has a strong urge to hug and spoil the shit out of severus but then remembers that he is both dead and not real*
alanrickmanseyebrow added: I think he’d rip ( ... )

traverse August 11 2015, 10:13:20 UTC

I think this depends on which Snape we are talking about: he comes across as a very different person at different points of his life. As a boy and younger man he craved love and positive recognition, then, when none was forthcoming, any recognition would have done. 'If you can't be loved, be feared', that sort of thing. I imagine he would have taken fandom hate in the same vein as the fear and loathing he got from his students - at certain points it looks like he is goading them into hating him. I would have loved to see this older Snape, who cultivated unpleasantness as an art form and learned not to show his soft underbelly to anyone, take on the hate segment of the fandom. He is a far better hater than anyone, and much funnier, I bet ( ... )

1/2 vhizen September 11 2015, 12:39:14 UTC

Hello, everybody who is still reading. I don’t read much anymore in the fandom, I guess for the best if it is all about hating Snape again. Or loving Snape unconditionally, for that matter. I agree so very much with akatnamedeaster and perverse_idyll in this thread ( ... )

2/2 vhizen September 11 2015, 12:39:44 UTC

So… Snape, who is actually human and not so entirely ‘’self-important’’ (as Voldemort or the random Death Eater would be) looked for a taste of love and recognition but only from a very few people - I would say from his parents, Lily, Voldemort and Dumbledore, and maybe from Harry in the end. There is a true question about that - did these few people deserve his desperate and ultimate request for attention? My personal answer is ‘’no’’ for his parents (both of them) and Voldemort (and he understood very early that they would never care for him). And ‘’Yes’’ for Lily and Dumbledore. This is not about who Lily and D. are in truth- they can be both flawed and take wrong decisions (which means they are human as well). I really like Lily and Dumbledore because they are like ‘’mirrors’’ and ‘’anchors’’; Lily is able to reveal the best of James or Snape, and Dumbledore is able to see the strength and weakness of everyone. If as a reader you start dismissing Lily and Dumbledore and consider they are only manipulating bitches, then IMO, you ( ... )