Wow.

[betweensunandmoon]

The post itself is not so bad. The comments are the scary part.

Apparently, Snape was only mean to his students because he cared about them, and Lily was a bitch for being upset that her best friend called her a racial slur.

I've seen this a hundred times while browsing old posts on various sites (and scarring myself for life), but foolishly believed it was a thing of the past.

I think I need a hug.

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[betweensunandmoon]

Those exist in every fandom, alas (I'm thinking of the crowd that advocates "the Phantom was a poor persecuted innocent, and we will prove this by explaining how everyone he threatened or murdered was evil and perverted"). When people become passionate advocates for a given character, they have a tendency to try to put them on the right side of every argument... even if this results in a version of the character that's totally unrecognisable from the canon that supposedly made them fans in the first place.

So true. Though I honestly would rather deal with crazy Erik fangirls than crazy Snape fangirls.

On the other hand, like anyone else, he doesn't see *himself* as the villain and probably finds his own actions entirely justified, so the challenge in fan-fiction is to show the gap between self-perception and reality without simply cheating and writing a saintly misunderstood Snape...

*nods*