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neopetsilluminati:

sarah531:

neopetsilluminati:

how can rowling tweet these two things one after the other with complete seriousness and no self awareness lmfao

Because she’s reiterated over and over again in interviews that Snape is no hero, no role model and his only redeeming quality is his bravery, whilst Draco still generally gets a free pass from fandom despite being an odious racist?

oh ok right, no hero and no role model mmmmmh. ok ok kinda weird then how she had harry name his god damn son after some asshole then if thats what she really thought. and she wrote draco towards the end as if he was becoming a better person, he didnt rat out harry when asked by death eaters who were obviously a threat to his life, he didn’t raise his children with the same terrible beliefs as his parents.

why are we supposed to acknowledge snapes redemption arc, a grown ass man who joined a terrorist organization of his own free will and abused children AFTER he “”turned good”“  and not acknowledge dracos, a freaking CHILD who grew up in a terrible environment but obviously realized how terrible it was towards the end. dracos not a good person and im not excusing anything he did but people relating to someone who grew up in an abusive brainwashing environment and learned to grow out of it being demonized and then at the same time constantly praising an abuser for being ~brave~ doesnt make any god damn sense to me

I don’t want to defend either Snape or Draco – I hate both – but I do want to defend JKR, who’s still on record as saying “I don’t
really see him as a hero. He’s spiteful, he’s a bully, all these things
are still true of Snape at the end of this book’ and “he’s a deeply horrible person” and “You shouldn’t think [Snape is] too nice.” Plus from an slightly older interview, a similar line to the Draco tweet: “I hesitate to say that I love him. [Audience member: I do]. You do? This is a very worrying thing.”

Her valuing ‘bravery’ above apparently all else weirds me out, as does the Albus Severus thing*, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as clear-cut as (the paraphrased fandom view) ‘she hates Draco but romanticises Snape (and by default his abusive behaviour)’. She is an abuse survivor herself, after all.

*I like to think it’s JKR’s (rather too late) attempt to ‘redeem’ Slytherin house in the text, but I don’t know.