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Good news: I have some recs for you! Snarry is a tricky ship for some folks. All of its most problematic themes are what draw me in personally, but that's not to say there aren't some safe places to start for a newcomer!
- Which is the best ship and why is it Snarry? - Reddit
My favorite ship is Snarry. To be honest, before I read my...
- Which is the best ship and why is it Snarry? - Reddit
My favorite ship is Snarry. To be honest, before I read my first Snarry ( The Syntax of Things by Arrihsa ), I was skeptical of the ship when I saw it on the top ships of AO3 so I decided to try out the most visited Snarry on AO3 out of curiosity which later kind of became my rabbit hole to the Snarry fandom as I hopelessly fell in love with ...
BUT what got me into rare pairs in the first place was running out of Snarry classics. I really haven't seen any ship which produced this volume of high quality fics. Snarry attracted the largest group of amazing fandom writers. It is a hard ship to write good fics for given the complexities!
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Snarry is the slash ship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape from the Harry Potter fandom.
From the day Harry set foot in Hogwarts, he and Snape loathed each other. Despite the fact that Snape wanted to honor Lily's sacrifice, he could not bring himself to judge the boy objectively because of his connection to James Potter, who had bullied him in his school days. Indeed, Snape felt nothing but contempt and bitterness toward Harry, who reminded him of both Lily and James. Harry served as living proof that Lily had given her love to someone else, and Snape wasted no time in comparing him to his father.
During Harry's time at Hogwarts, Snape treated Harry viciously, both in and out of class. He frequently mocked the boy's abilities, bullied him in class and punished him whenever possible. He was also resentful and even somewhat envious of Harry's popularity, which he equated with that of Harry's father. Although Snape threatened to have Harry expelled more than once, he never attempted to do so, presumably because Harry would have lost the protection that surrounded him. However, he never forgot that Harry was also Lily's child, and this led him to put the boy's safety above bureaucratic rules. When he learned that Dumbledore had intended for Harry to die all along, Severus remained horrified, seeing it as a calculated betrayal of Lily's memory.
When Harry helped Sirius Black escape, their relationship was further strained, as Snape believed at the time that Sirius had betrayed Lily to Voldemort while Harry had learned of his innocence, though Snape continued to put Harry's safety first. During the brief period when Snape gave private lessons in Occlumency, Snape enjoyed forcing Harry to relive his worst memories. In the early years, Harry associated Snape with his abusive and bullying ways, but when Sirius died, Harry took great pleasure in blaming Snape for mocking Sirius as useless, causing him to leave his hiding place and join the battle. Although Snape came to the Order's aid as quickly as possible, Harry blamed Snape mainly to assuage his own guilty conscience about the whole incident. However, this was nothing compared to the retroactive rage Harry felt when he found out that Snape was the one who gave the prophecy to Lord Voldemort, causing him to hunt down Harry and his family. When he later murdered Dumbledore, the hatred between them was almost as personal as that between Harry and Voldemort.
Only once did Snape ever truly see him as Lily's son, and that was in the moments before he died. After that, Harry was given access to all of Snape's hidden memories, which revealed his former teacher's true intentions. When Harry discovered the love Snape had for his mother, and the constant danger he put himself in to ensure his safety, his opinion of him changed completely. By adulthood, all of Harry's hatred for Snape seems to have vanished, and it appears that he never harbored it. This can be seen in his request that a portrait of Snape be hung in the Hogwarts Headmaster's office, which was not done immediately after Snape's death, as he had left his post. In addition, Harry named his youngest son "Albus Severus", telling him that his Slytherin namesake was "the bravest man I ever knew."
Books
” — Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ” — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sercets — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Films
Professor Snape: Then I suggest you take extra care, Mr. Potter, loss of limb will not excuse you.Page 394. –
Family (Severitus)
This ship is when a fanfiction describes a situation where Snape becomes a father figure to Harry in some way; this often involves Snape being forced to adopt Harry after his parents die or something. They share a trauma from the war, and were also led into certain positions by Dumbledore, whom they had to trust, but were never given the full plan/specific information.
Romantic (Snarry)
Snarry was popular long before Lily's revelation, when the series was still running. Many of the classic Snarry fics were written between 2001 and 2005. This was when Snape's motivations were still unknown, so many writers wrote a darker, more complicated dynamic with power imbalances between the two. On AO3 this ship is the most written ship for Snape and the second most written ship for Harry - with similar (and sometimes higher) popularity on FFN.net. Fans of this ship love enemy-to-lover and redemption arcs, and their positions in the story and their roles in each other's lives promise an amazing potential dynamic. Snape and Harry are also mirror images of each other in many ways and have a lot in common. They were both abused, bullied, half-bloods who grew up in the Muggle world and had their lives changed by Voldemort. Snape is also pretty much responsible for everything that went wrong in Harry's life, and from Snape's point of view, Harry is the embodiment of all Snape's sins and mistakes, and a living reminder of everything that's wrong in Snape's life, a symbol of all the betrayals - his own and those inflicted upon him. In Snarry, a lot of the postwar stories focus on the similarities between Harry and Snape and the dynamic of them working together. Both had difficult childhoods, both found a home at Hogwarts, both liked power, both played important roles in the war with Harry as the weapon and Severus as the tool. Both had survived so much danger. All that Severus had done to keep Harry alive over the years. How important he was as a spy for the DARK LORD. Both just used and seen as pawns and pushed around, Severus useful for his skills and connections, Harry useful for his destiny.
FAN FICTION Harry/Severus tag on AO3
Harry & Severus tag on AO3
Snape adopts Harry tag on AO3
Harry/Severus on FanFiction.Net
TUMBLR Snarry tag on Tumblr
Snape x Harry tag on Tumblr
Aug 30, 2024 · Snarry Games is one of the most popular challenge communities for the ship (retired in 2009). The Snarry Reader is a comprehensive recs list of fan fiction, art, and vids for the pairing, updated monthly. Includes gen and Severitus.
Read Snarry (Snape/Harry) from the story Just Another Book About Harry Potter Ships by CoraWritesThings (Cora Alexander) with 749 reads. canon, fuckjkr, statis...
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