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• Start date Aug 18, 2015

Nahtangnouv

Ive been really into time travel fics involving severus snape going into the past before or after his worst memory and tries to change it, I also support James bashing :3 reccomendations?  

Not The Goddamn @dmin

First off, we have a thread for this. Second off, we tend to only read and thus recommend good stories. I highly doubt there are any good stories that involve bashing james. Literally every single james bashing story I've ever seen was written by some preteen girl that barely passed English with a crush on Alan Rickman trying to make Lily into her SI, with all the story and characterization butchering that comes with it. tl;dr: Lurk more, get some taste.  

nixofcyzerra

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Nahtangnouv's gonna need some Phoenix Tears for that burn...  

daniel_gudman

King (in land of blind).

Nahtangnouv said: Ive been really into time travel fics involving severus snape going into the past before or after his worst memory and tries to change it, I also support James bashing :3 reccomendations? Click to expand... The only way this could be non-terrible would be if you subverted audience expectations about what they were getting into. For example, I've long suspected that whatever Snape's problem was with the Fantastic Four, it was probably his fault. Because, in Book Four, Lupin described Snape as someone who, as a first year, knew more curses than most graduating seventh years. I can't brain a way that Lupin (age 11) would know that about Snape (age 11) without it making Snape out as some kind of monster. Perhaps he got street cred in Slytherin by bullying Sirius? I feel like that would be a really good story, James Potter completely thinks Sirius Black is no better than the rest of them, but eventually he can't stand seeing Black getting pooped on by all the Slytherins, and Snape kept pushing it farther and farther as In-Group Affirmation, and eventually James stood up for him, and then there's a big dust up and maybe they didn't win but they didn't lose either, and afterwards they're like in detention together with black eyes and broken lips, and they're like "Bros? Bros." and roll credits. I think the story about how James Potter and Sirius Black became fast friends is way more interesting than Snape falling in with a bad crowd or whatever. Anyway, If Snape really did like send his soul back in time or whatever, we all know what he'd do: Use his knowledge and skills as an adult man to bully teenagers and/or teenagers. I man, that's pretty much all he's done with his life as a teacher, so of course he'd do exactly the same thing. That was literally his role in the books. That's probably where you could get your fix for James-bashing. I mean, assuming you're into that thing, it's kinda weird. I mean, I always felt like... Snape talking shit about a dead guy when he's basically, directly responsible for getting that guy killed... way to stay classy, you know? That dude's not around to defend himself 'cuz you got him killed by Voldemort. Maybe you should shut your mouth, Snape. That's how I felt about that. So, like, Snape travels back in time, and rather than redeeming himself, he basically just continues to be a shithead, or rather, he's a far worse shithead than he was the first time around, because the second time around, he's more powerful than the people he hated. I'm thinking it would end after it escalated too far, and the last chapter is, he's in Dumbledore's office, and Dumbledore's like, "suppose you tell me what the heck is going on," and Snape spills his guts about time travel and how Lilly never loved him and Voldemort and everything, and then Dumbledore sighs real slow, takes his glasses off and wipes them with a handkerchief, he's clearly trying to decide how to say what he wants to say, and then Dumbledore puts his glasses back on and looks directly at Snape and says, "Severus. My boy. What the fuck is wrong with you." Cuz the thing is, Snape is the most pathetic guy in the whole series. I mean, maybe Voldemort was such a coward about mortality that he literally changed his name to "The Guy Running From Death", but at least he had the gumption to go out and do something about it, you know? Snape didn't. He was just a huge loser, that's the essence of his character.  

Translation: there are a lot of people here that do not like Snape as a character that would rather tear you down for your tastes in fanfics rather than act like adults and ignore a topic they clearly have no interest in. See also: Naruto fans that get so butthurt over NaruHina becoming canon they would rather post revenge pics to disgust others rather than learn to live and let live like a rational adult once the pairing became canon.  

Calling someone immature for not staying quiet is self-referencing, natch.  

I think it was more the James-bashing that was the problem.  

I like Snape as a character just fine. In fact, he's probably one of the best-written characters in the Harry Potter series in my opinion (not that being the best-written character in HP is a prize, mind you). Snape as a person I dislike, but that's not what we're talking about. What we're talking about is that bashing and good writing tends to be mutually exclusive. When you're bashing a guy solely because he grew the fuck up and stopped being pathetic, thus Getting The Girl, you're not gonna find jack shit of quality. People on this board tend not to read shitty fics, or at least only read enough of it to post in the Stories You Can Destroy thread, so it's not like we're about to recommend a shitty story. We would have to read it first, if nothing else. EDIT: Like, seriously. Of all the people you could bash in harry potter, I can only think of one person whom would be more retarded to bash, and that's Lily.  

shioran toushin

i think Bashing is the problem, IMHO Good Stories don't bash characters. James was an inmature brat once upon a time? most people are like that at least once in their lifetimes, Severus was bullied? while i may think so, i also think he gave as good as he got, so most of his 'trauma' comes from his inability to really make friends/allies and his father. i also agree with Shirotsume's first and third point. but i think you could be missremembering the fic, i remember One meh quality fic that has Harry doing the time travel in order to prevent Snape from 'experiencing his worst memory' (and my memory fails to recall if it's one of the Father related ones or if it's the one Harry sees in the pensieve in book five) and it goes up from there. or i could be missinterpreting the request and you are just simply searching for Time Teavel Seversus Snape fics instead of one in particular.  

Im still interested in a fic where severus is the one to time travel tho :3 and actually redeem himself instead of being the shitty person everyone in the hp universe viewed him as with or without james bashing ALSO fuck naruhina and that naruto sequel, Ill forever believe in the au where he had a giant harem <3  

Since we only have Severus' totally-not-biased-at-all memory of what actually, you start getting into Unreliable Narrator questions as a literary device, to wit; did James actually bully Snape, or are we watching Rashomon ? Shit maybe it's more like Inception , with all the Memory Charms getting thrown about. But that's getting too twisty. We can leave aside Unreliable Narrator as a device that the author just didn't intend to use, so take it as given that whatever Snape remembered was "true". Here's a good exercise. Go re-read Book One. No, rather, skim book one. Only read the passages where Snape interacts, not with Harry , you can ignore those parts; read where Snape is interacting with Neville Longbottom . That will control for Lily-and-James related baggage. Go see how Snape, a teacher, treats 11-year-olds in his classroom. Yeah. See, the thing is, Snape is exactly the same type of character as Argus Filch. A pathetic, miserable man who uses what little power he has to torment children. These are highly typical stock villains in boarding-school adventure novels. They exist as antagonists to prove that the adults are fundamentally unreliable and detestable and cannot be relied on to do anything. That's why the plucky child heros of boarding school novels have to solve all their own damn problems, because the teaching staff will actively make things worse if you get them involved. Giving Snape a Freudian Excuse that he was picked on by other kids to explain why he torments children as an adult might makes logical sense, but he is still a villain. He neither repented nor changed. He didn't have a moment where he came across Harry poking around his Memory Bowl, and then he fucking exploded at the kid and was shouting abuse at him, and realized that he had become the thing he despised. That's what a real redemption arc would have looked like, not Snape vomiting out a Magical Memoir as he lay bleeding to death so that Harry would feel sorry for him. tl;dr however bad you think James was at 17, Snape is visibly 100 times worse at 30.  

About the only way I can figure to make a time-travelling Snape redeem himself without getting straight into OOC Snape territory In the original timeline, 1. Have Dumbledore realise Voldemort is still alive as soon as November 1, 1981, just wandering around in wraith form. 2. Dumbledore tells Snape this and says he needs Snape to be a spy when Voldemort inevitably comes back. 3. Snape maybe wants to change but can't. He needs to continue to be an utter asshole because he needs to be so in character that Voldemort will take him back easily. Voldemort would get suspicious if Snape started being roses and daisies after the first war. He of course takes this to ridiculous extremes with all the bullying, helped by this being pretty much his natural personality. Then Time-travelling Snape realises this or gets called out on it by the Sorting Hat or what have you.  

I'm pretty sure that this has already been discussed to death, but you don't actually need a pensieve to just store memories. You can just use a vial. The only reason Snape would have needed that Pensieve was to actually view his own memories. So either Snape likes to remember his childhood torments right before Harry's "remedial potions lessons," to get himself in a suitable mood for mind-violating, or Snape specifically set that Pensieve there in the hopes that Harry would view the memory of James bullying Snape.  

didn't dumbledore said that he left his memories on the pensieve so they (or he i don't remember clrearly) could sort themselves? IMHO, he either likes remeinding himself Why he should 'hate' Harry (because hating children in general is such a 'normal' thing and because Harry behaves like james soooo much *insert sarcasm here*), he set a trap for him or he tried to 'temporarily dampen/forget that memory so he could at least say that he tried to help Harry and the child was just as inept as he believed and the memory episode was nasty for both of them. and for an Awesome Snape Fic, well the moment he finds out that Riddle killed the Love of his life (Lily) he swears absolute revenge against him and when he finds that he may still be among the 'living' he makes anything to make him suffer a permanent death, up to and including using Harry Freaking Potter as his tool of vengeance against voldemort. even if Severus Snape was in character (as in 'not different from how he is portrayed in the books') that change of focus (instead of getting his petty revenge on the Potter and the children and being an all around asshole he just focus on utterly destroying Riddle and everything related to him) it could be nice reading that.  

There is another factor to consider with Snape being a mean asshole. He was a teacher in classes with two rival houses half the time. Teaching eleven year olds how to do things that, if done wrong, reacted strongly enough to either explode or melt a solid pewter cauldron. And had been doing so for over a decade at this point. I know I would get fed up with it and be a very strict asshole just to try to keep them all from killing me and themselves within the first week or so. For the first three books we were seeing a child's perspective of a strict and unfair teacher. But I never remember a thought of Harry's or Ron's along the lines of "I need to be careful or this is going to kill me and everyone else in the room." There is always another perspective in the "Unreliable Narrator" point of view argument. You are seeing kids perceive and adult. An ugly, scary looking adult at that. They will be naturally biased in that perspective.  

Dhampyr, there is literally no way to make the first Potions class- before they even TRY to make potions- an element of 'unreliable narrator.' Snape is fucked up, let's not sit there and pretend he's just an overworked teacher around dangerous chemicals.  

plus we have an example of Hermione and the twins being actually good at it, Snape not being very helpful to anyone (and we saw what his schoolnotes did for harry in book six) and Slughorn being a teacher (biased i know, SNape didn't want to or didn't care for it in the first place).  

Lord of Bones

Snape literally starts foaming at the mouth when he realizes he won't get an Order of Merlin for delivering Sirius to the Dementors. That pretty much tells you everything about him. He is everything he accuses Harry of being.  

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• What concoction does Hermione give Harry and Ron to make them appear as Crabbe and Goyle in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"? Answer: Polyjuice Potion
• What are the names of Ron Weasley’s twin brothers? Answer: Fred and George
• Which actor portrayed Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies ("The Sorcerer's Stone" and "The Chamber of Secrets")? Answer: Richard Harris
• What month, day and year is Harry Potter's birthday? Answer: July 31, 1980
• What is the name of the house elf who warns Harry Potter against returning to Hogwarts in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"? Answer: Dobby
• What three schools of magic compete in the Triwizard Tournament in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"? Answer: Hogwarts, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons
• What is Minerva McGonagall a professor of at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry? Answer: Transfiguration
• Before "Twilight," Robert Pattinson appeared in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"c as what character?  Answer: Cedric Diggory
• What position does Harry Potter play in Quidditch?  Answer: Seeker
• What is Hagrid's first name? Answer: Rubeus
• What is the name of the cat belonging to Hogwarts' caretaker, Argus Filch? Answer: Mrs. Norris
• What actor plays Hogwarts professor Sybil Trelawney in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"? Answer: Emma Thompson
• What is the name of Harry Potter's hometown? Answer: Godric's Hollow
• What does Harry use to destroy Tom Riddle's diary, a Horcrux, in "Chamber of Secrets"? Answer: The fang of a basilisk
• How many players are there on a Quidditch team? Answer: 7
• In the book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" which bridge do the Death Eaters destroy? Answer: Brockdale Bridge
• What is the original name of the J.K. Rowling book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Answer: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
• After being destroyed by the Whomping Willow, Harry's Nimbus 2000 is replaced with what broom? Answer: The Firebolt
• What is Hermione Granger's middle name? Answer: Jean
• What pub does the Knight Bus drop Harry Potter off at after he flees the Dursleys' in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"? Answer: The Leaky Cauldron
• Actor Shirley Henderson plays which iconic character in the Harry Potter movies "Chamber of Secrets" and "Goblet of Fire"? Answer: Moaning Myrtle
• What is name of Voldemort's beloved snake and companion? Answer: Nagini
• The Hogwarts Express departs from what platform? Answer: 9 3/4
• What is the name of the shape-shifter that can appear in the likeness of a person's worst fear? Answer: Boggart
• Harry Potter and the Dursleys live on Privet Drive in Surrey. What is the house number? Answer: 4
• What must one use to travel via the Floo Network? Answer: Floo powder
• In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," Hagrid receives a promotion at Hogwarts. What is his new role? Answer: Care of Magical Creatures professor
• Whose wedding reception is violently interrupted by Death Eaters in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"? Answer: Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour
• Who was Draco Malfoy's date at the Yule Ball in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"? Answer: Pansy Parkinson
• In Harry Potter's first Quidditch match, how does he "catch" the snitch to win the game? Answer: In his mouth
• What is the name of the wand shop in Diagon Alley? Answer: Ollivanders
• The deepest vaults of Gringotts Bank are protected by what? Answer: A dragon
• What are Voldemort's horcruxes (not including Harry Potter)? Answer: Tom Riddle's' diary, Marvolo Gaunt's ring, Salazar Slytherin's locket, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem and Nagini.
• What is the name of the plant with healing properties whose scream is so piercing it can be fatal? Answer: Mandrake
• What are the four houses of Hogwarts? Answer: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw
• What defensive spell can be used to deflect spells cast by enemies and other wizards? Answer: The Protego spell
• Which Harry Potter character is dubbed "The Half-Blood Prince"? Answer: Severus Snape
• Who notably said, "The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming," in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"? Answer: Kingsley Shacklebolt
• What animal is Harry Potter's patronus? Answer: The stag
• After missing the train, Harry and Ron use an enchanted car to fly to Hogwarts in "Chamber of Secrets." What make and model is the automobile? Answer: Ford Anglia
• In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Harry swims to the bottom of a frozen pond to retrieve what magical item? Answer: The sword of Gryffindor
• Who is the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"? Answer: Remus Lupin
• What position does Ron Weasley play on Gryffindor's Quidditch team in the movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"? Answer: Keeper (or goalie)
• During what major sporting event does Voldemort's "Dark Mark" appear in the sky in "Goblet of Fire"? Answer: The Quidditch World Cup
• What does the Hogwarts’ motto “Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus” mean?  Answer: Never tickle a sleeping dragon
• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs are proud to present what notable magical item used in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"? Answer: The Marauder's Map
• What nickname does Hagrid give the three-headed dog that stands guard over the Sorcerer's Stone? Answer: Fluffy
• This clever, magical accessory decides which house Hogwarts' students will be assigned to. What is it? Answer: The Sorting Hat
• How many presents does Dudley Dursley complain about not receiving on his birthday in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Answer: 37
• What is the name of Albus Dumbledore's phoenix? Answer: Fawkes
• What is a wizard or witch that can turn into a specific animal at will called? Answer: Animagus
• What is Ron Weasley's biggest fear? Answer: Spiders
• In the "Order of the Phoenix," what kind of collectible plates does Dolores Umbridge display? Answer: Cat
• Tom Marvolo Riddle is an anagram for what? Answer: I am Lord Voldemort
• Hermione Granger's parents are Muggle-born and both work as what? Answer: Dentists
• How are Sirius Black and Bellatrix Lestrange related? Answer: They are first cousins
• What is the name of Hagrid's hippogriff? Answer: Buckbeak
• In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Ginny Weasley joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team playing what position? Answer: A Chaser
• Which Hogwarts' house does Luna Lovegood belong to? Answer: Ravenclaw
• What organization is responsible for governing the wizarding world? Answer: The Ministry of Magic
• Which American composer and conductor composed "Hedwig’s Theme," otherwise known as the “Harry Potter Theme”?  Answer: John Williams
• What train station is home to the Hogwarts Express? Answer: King's Cross Station
• At what Diagon Alley store can Hogwarts students purchase their robes? Answer: Madam Malkin's
• Which Harry Potter character disguised himself as Scabbers, Ron Weasley's pet rat? Answer: Peter Pettigrew
• British actor John Cleese portrays what character in the Harry Potter movies "Sorcerer's Stone" and "Chamber of Secrets"? Answer: Nearly Headless Nick
• For which wizarding family was Dobby, the house elf, in servitude to? Answer: The Malfoys
• What year was the final movie, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" released? Answer: 2011
• In the Harry Potter books, what are "squibs"? Answer: Children born to wizard parents that have no magical abilities or powers of their own.
• In "Chamber of Secrets" who is the author of the autobiography "Magical Me"? Answer: Gilderoy Lockhart
• What is the name of Harry Potter's owl? Answer: Hedwig
• For the majority of the Harry Potter series, what kind of professor is Severus Snape? Answer: Potions
• What does Ron Weasley drink that that nearly kills him in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"? Answer: Poisoned mead
• What is the name of Hermione Granger's cat? Answer: Crookshanks
• What poltergeist appears only in the Harry Potter books and not the films? Answer: Peeves
• In order, what are the names of the seven Harry Potter books? Answer: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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