Why Snape Shouldn’t Be So Easily Forgiven for his Mistakes

Harry Potter fans love to remember Severus Snape for all the memories he shared with Harry in his dying moments but let’s not forget the verbal abuse.

Severus Snape is not something we should just easily forgive. Yet everyone seems to completely forget that he verbally abused Harry Potter through seven years of schooling. Why? Because he looked like James Potter.

It’s not that Harry Potter fans are wrong in their love of Snape. They are free to love him as they chose. He was a great character who had so many layers to him and we still don’t know everything about him. But we can’t forget that what he did was inherently wrong.

Snape works hard to make the wizarding world better, we’ll give him that. He helps Dumbledore and plays the part of a double agent flawlessly. But still, that doesn’t discount the fact that he made a child’s life a living hell all because he had once been in love with the boy’s mother.

If you still think he should be forgiven, just imagine. You know that one teacher who hated you growing up and you don’t know why? The one who was probably mean to you and your grades? Now imagine they verbally abused you for 6 years straight and made you feel inferior because of who your father was? Oh and now add the layer that that teacher was also madly in love with your mother.

Feels pretty gross and wrong, right? Well, that’s how we should think about Snape. He did great for the wizarding world but he also was still a terrible person.

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So just remember, you’re free to love Snape. I do, he’s a great character, just don’t forgive him for the way he treated Harry. It was wrong and he verbally abused a child for 6 years.