itreallyatemyhand:

aceprincessmerida:

Listen I’ll stop trashing Snape as soon as someone can give me a good reason for Neville Longbottom, the boy whose parents were tortured to insanity by someone who is still alive, to be more afraid of Snape than anything in the world.

Every time this post appears I check out the notes to see what excuses people have come up with to defend Snape

Today’s runner up is: its not (30-plus year old) Snape’s fault he abused children, because Dumbledore let him

And the grand prize trashiest response goes to: Neville was so bad at potions he endangered other kids, so Snape was just doing his best to protect them