Why does EVERYONE think Snape is a villain? 

"You can't argue with the Author" Oh how times have changed.

umbridge is the worst charter ever

Someone: do you think Snape is good or evil? Me: Or.

I would not call Snape a villain. At least not in the grand scheme of things. But calling Snape a Hero is false for the same reason! He had the chance to get a fresh start. Harry didnt knew what his father had done to Snape, nor what a wounderfull person his mother was. Thats my biggest problem with snape. Not treating Harry like he knew Lilly would have liked him to have!

I want J.K Rowling to apologize about killing off Colin Cleevey

I feel like people that say that Snape was “obsessed” with Lilly forget the fact that they were LITERALLY best friends for like their first five years at Hogwarts. This wasn’t just some thing where Lilly was nice to him once, and then Snape suddenly loved her. No, they genuinely cared for each other for five whole years, they laughed together, they talked together. Thats why calling Lilly mudblood is the worst day of his life. Not because he lost someone who he barely knew and was obsessed with, but because he lost not only the love of his life...but his best friend as well.

2017: Daenerys is ranked as a top tier "villain" 2019: yah...

It’s shocking that people who simply read about Snape’s mistakes and shortcomings think he’s the most evil person out there. And yet Harry, who had to actually endure through many of said mistakes, decided Snape was noble enough to name his child after.

“Snape is a coward.” So it’s cowardly to work as a double agent for Voldemort when any minute he could be killed by voldie if he found out. Personally, Snape is one of my favourite characters.

Ok, we all know that Umbridge is the real villain of Harry Potter. Lol😁😂

"Great heroes like Daenerys Targaryen..." ooh boy... this didn't age well

5:52 - little did he know, season 8 of GOT will come around 😅

SNAPE IS NOT EVIL!! NO ONE DESERVES TO TO DIE!!!! (unless you're umbridge)

I personally think Snape did some bad things, but did some really good things. He isn't my favorite character, but I don't hate him.

Snape is not a hero, he is a morally grey anti-hero. He isn't evil but he also isn't altruistic lol. You need to take the good with the bad.

I'm more like in a neutral zone when it comes to Snape. He was a brave and intelligent person and I'll never disagree with that. He had to go through a lot starting from his abusive father to the Marauders being cruel to him to losing the girl he loved. He did a great deal in the war and contributed to the defeat of Voldemort and helped Harry and everything, however, I absolutely don't agree with the way he treated his students, especially Harry, Neville and Hermione, and even though his reasoning for hating Harry is because he reminds him of his childhood bully, I don't think that's a very good reason and doesn't excuse the way he treated the others. I definitely don't like him much as a person, but he was definitely an interesting and complex character.

'After all this time' Always Harry's first dialogue regarding Snape, "Who is that man?" Harry's last dialogue regarding snape, "He is the bravest man I've ever known"

*raises wand*

I think everyone who think snape's the worst is actually referring to DOLORES UMBRIDGE. Abusive, racist, and selfish woman!

Looking back from 2019 at when Seamus says "Daenerys Targaryen" in a sarcastic way...

So you can say snape was Lily’s friend and loved her and that’s called obsessive... but James immediately fell in love with her although he didn’t know her and since she wouldn’t go out with him he practically stalked her for seven years and asked her out until she eventually said yes... and that’s considered romantic.. and snape was the obsessed one...lmao what?

Snape was truly misunderstood. One of things he most valued was to be wanted and accepted. Hogwarts seemed to be haven of acceptance of welcoming. However, Snape was tormented by James and Sirius and grew further apart from Lily. The people close to friends were fellow death eater wannabe slytherins.This combined with incredible peer pressure shaped his life as a death eater. It truly broke his heart when Lily left him to be with his school tormentor. When Lily was killed Snape was devastated. These experiences rotted out all the happiness and hope within Snape and he took out his anger on his students, additionally angry that they lacked his patience and aptitude at the subject. Even though his life seemed ruined, Snape persevered as dumbledore’s double agent, risking his life daily even though his life couldn’t get any better. The fact that he selflessly risked his life for the good cements his place as a hero. Yes he tormented students but in end it’s our final decisions that matter not the inherent mistakes we will in our life. Feel to disagree with me but that’s my opinion.

I LOVE Snape. He is awesome. He is not evil. He was a boy who loved a girl and was treated badly. 😭😭

"The world isn't split into good people and death eaters" ~sirius black

Snape is my favorite character too, but the James potter argument has flaws. I mean one was a teenager being a dick to another teenager, whilst the other was a grown man bullying school children and abusing his authority as a teacher. Bit of a difference there. Still love you though Sev.

Tonks was a badass! She fought in a fucking wizard war like a couple days after giving birth to Teddy!(also she was willing to sacrifice anything for Lupin so, aww~)

Snape is definitely not a villain, but is also not a hero. He was still emotionally abusive to Harry during his time are Hogwarts because his father bullied him. James bullying Snape was terrible, but does not excuse his actions towards his son who did not even know what his father had done.

Okay. I take your point, but can we all just agree that being in love with the dead mom of a student you dislike because of his father is... a bit of a weird situation? Like, that's just awkward for... everyone involved. Like, on the one hand, tragic story, yes, but on the other... idk, man, that's just weird.

Severus will always be my favorite character. I love you for this, Seamus. Subscribed. #RIPAlanRickman #RIPSeverusSnape

Snape is neither good nor evil. He had his flaws; he let his loathing of Jame Potter - who had bullied him - influence how he saw Harry Potter, he did join the death-eaters, and he wasn't exactly pleasant to some of his students - such as Neville Longbottom and Hermione Granger. But, he also had many good points; he died to save the wizarding world, he defied Voldemort and spied on him, and his love for Lily Potter transcended her death. Perhaps Voldemort himself sums this up the best: '"There is no good and evil; there is only power, and those to weak to seek it"'. Snape was neither good nor evil, but he did seek the ultimate power in the Harry Potter world - love - above all other powers. While Voldemort was, and the other death-eaters were, after the power to control the world - disregarding other powers.

I think that Snape is an anti-hero. He isn’t a hero and saint but he isn’t a villain either. Very interesting concept for a character.

5:20 “ ‘No - listen, I didn’t mean -‘ ‘- to call me Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus? Why should I be any different?” The Deathly Hallows, Chapter 33: The Prince’s Tale, Page 552. Everyone. *Everyone.* He called every other muggleborn Mudblood. I’m not saying he wasn’t an ok (ok is pushing it for me, but I do have a fair amount of sympathy for him) guy, but he sure as hell was a racist? Person. Don’t ignore that. Yes he changed, but he did call a lot of people Mudblood. Also, yes, he loved Lily. That is true. But loving someone is not an excuse for literally joining a hate group that kills people. I think he was an asshole, but he was a good character, because he was realistic. He was flawed to kingdom come, but he tried to sort of do the right thing.

Was Snape evil? Not in my opinion. Was he an ass? Yeah.

I don't hate Snape-he's a well written complex character who ultimately made a brave and Noble sacrifice. I never thought he was evil...but I have a lot of issues with the way he treated his students and Harry. He is a bit of a bully that can't be denied. Yeah James was a bully but he grew out of it Snape didn't...or at least it took him a while. But no while his behavior bothers me I don't hate Snape or think he's the villain...because he's not. People just need to stop making him either a saint or a a villain-he's neither just like JK said.

You can like a character and be critical of them. Snape was a bully in his youth and as a teacher. But he did love Lily and evidently sacrificed himself fro the greater good. he was part of the murder cult that is Voldemorts gang obvs, and referred to Lily even as he loved her a "mudblood". He is an definite grey area and I appreciate him as a character. I think his personality was rather mean overall, but his legacy was that of good intention within the story. He is neither competently good or bad because he draws from both. The Question is whether his good outweighs his bad or his bad to his good. And even then, why should we judge that? Those that knew him personally within the story will and should shame him for his personal misdeeds. But the public shall remember him a hero to the world. This duality is what makes him so interesting as a character. EDIT: Replies to this have brought up the context fro him calling her a mudblood. And while i will absolutely say he was being bullied (he and the marauders fought a lot, im only saying bullying because if it was just James being a dick then no, Snape was capable of holding his own and was just as mean back. but 4 v 1 isnt fair). However I'd like to note that theres never a reason to use a derogatory term. Im white as hell. I wouldn't start calling people the N word if i was in a bad situation. theres no circumstance where that would be acceptable. Thats why i dont think theres any way to contextual Snape calling Lily a mudblood as an okay thing.

Didn’t Snape cause Lupin to lose his job by telling some of the Slytherins that he was a werewolf?

Exactly! My teacher did a lesson on the complexity of Snape's character. The fact that he is good.

I think the people who say snape is evil are people who haven't read the books or haven't watched the movies or don't understand his character at all

Top 5 Most Hated Harry Potter Characters: Voldemort Bellatrix Fenrir Peter Umbridge EDIT: Okay, so Bellatrix is more popular than I thought, as a villain at least.

Snape's actions after Lily death are not about loving Lily they are about His regrets and His inaction resulting Lily's death. If Voldemort had gone after the Longbottoms or some other innocent family, Snape would never have cared

But the worst thing is that people can only classify people as black or white, good or evil. But there is also grey, you know. Dumbledore as a teenager also shown prejudice towards muggles but nobody calls him evil. Why? Because on the beginning of the series Dumbledore was portrayed as a good guy, while Snape was portrayed as a bully. I understand you might not like Snape as a character but calling him evil is a bit too much. You can call him mean, biased, bully but not evil. Without Snape and his sacrifice, the battle would be won by Voldemort. You Know Who had multiple occasions to kill Harry but Harry was always saved by somebody, many times it was Snape. He risked his own life to be a triple agent. If he would be completely evil he would not do it all. And yes, I think he loved Lily. Obsession is much shallower than love, if he would be just obsessed with her, once she died he would not care about her child. He was protecting child of his own bully from school times, each time he looked at Harry, he remembered James, that's why he was so mean to Harry, some part of the hate he had towards James, was directed at Harry. But Snape still agreed to protect him, because he loved Lily. He protected students at Hogwarts during the war as well and other good things I probably forgot to mention. Harry told he was the bravest person he knows and named his child after Snape, do you think Harry would name his son after an evil person? I don think so.

What do you mean, name a single Slytherin who wasn’t rascist, apart from slug horn. Just remember that the series was told from Harry’s point of view, we don’t get to see everything that goes on in Slytherin. I’m willing to bet a lot of students from there were actually quite nice and good people

-bullied children to psychological damage -tried to get sirius and lupin kissed by dementors -outed lupin as a werewolf

Also, Snape killed Dumbledore knowing perfectly well that the action would strain his soul. His soul was already damaged and he was terrified that would make things worse for himself. But he did it anyways. I don't think you can call that selfish.

Snape is a grey spot. He is not good nor bad. He abused kids. He loved Lily.He made sure that Harry was safe. He tried to make friends with Lily. Snape is a grey spot in my book

"Mud...ggle born"

Fun fact: when evil wizards try to cast the Patronus Charm, they get devoured by maggots instead Does Snape look like maggot food to you

I feel like you can be in love with someone and still be unhealthily obsessed with them. Just because he loved Lily that much doesnt mean hes a good guy. Love isnt a pure entity. It's not this angelic sense that makes it okay to be a dick to literally everyone including the person that he loves.

Snape is seriously the best character ever... I mean he was a triple agent.. he is amazing.

Last time I was this early, Daniel Howell was still Dani Snot On Fire.

He’s not a racist he’s a “bloodist” hehehehehe

New theory: JAMES was obsessed with lily

I always defended Snape. Then I reread Harry Potter and he definitely is a well written character, but I just can't stand him. Basically because I hate bad teachers and bullies. Also, Lupin is now the only marauder I really like.

I found out that the actor who played Snape was dead and it was the worst thing ever because he was the best actor in the Harry Potter series

Seamus: calls Daenerys villain ironically. Me: Oh boy, that didn't age well.

Ok, but imagine for one second Harry if was a girl that looked like Lily how creepy Snape would be to her, and Snape told Voldmort about the prophecy and when he realized that put Lily in danger he got Dumbledore to tell them to go into hiding, and on the night The Potter's died Snape went to The Potter's House walked past James's corpse and I ignored screaming Harry to hug Lily's dead body, and the only reason he ever helped Dumbledore and the good guys was because he owed Dumbledore and he wanted to protect the last part of Lily He may have done good things but not for the right reasons. Thank you.

Snape was the bravest character in the Harry Potter series in my opinion. He risked EVERYTHING to help save his biggest enemies son. I mean that's just amazing.

Sure, Snape was an asshole (an understatement...) but I can't see how he's evil. As for "bad", I guess that depends on how u define "bad". "Lately only those whom I could not save," To me this shows who he really was. It implies he actively tries to save ppl whenever he can. We see this in the memory when he tried to save Lupin, he failed & cut off George's ear instead but it was still a very risky move that could've blown his cover (Although he might be smart enough to get away w/ it...). If everything he does is only for Lily like some ppl say, then why does he goes out of his way to save ppl who isn't Harry Potter? A comment (not mine) on Reddit: "We also know that if all he ever cared about was Lily and he never gave a shit about being on the good side, he would have never told Harry that he needed to die for the greater good. instead he would have told Harry to run away and stay safe for Lily's sake or something." Yes, he probably wouldn't have change sides if it wasn't for Lily (but the same goes for Regulus w/ Kreacher), however along the way he learned to become a better person himself.

Harry also named one of his own children after Snape...and he also said Snape was the bravest man he had ever met.... Snape is and will always be my favorite professor hands down 🐍💚

Imagine spending 5 years with someone, Falling in love with them through years of conversations and memories and then they date the person who makes your life a living hell. if anyone was snape, they would have done the same thing.

Snape was GREY just like Dumbledore. Not evil but not particularly nice either, he was scarred by his youth, not really willing to share his feelings and personal thoughts.

If he was a villain, why would that mean he can't be someone's favorite character?

Twitter user: Snape was obsessed with Lily. Me: *looking for evidence in books and movies that he's been a creep for her or lacked respect for her and her choices and finds nothing*

Snape is a character of contradictions. He was a protector and a bully. His love for Lily was unhealthy and genuine. He abused the emotional state of James’ son while protecting the physical state of Lily’s son.

teacher: so who is the villain in Harry Potter?? class: Voldemort me an intellectaul: UMBRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a Ravenclaw stop calling us nerds

Snape was definitely vindictive and a bully, holding on to grudges and hurt feelings way beyond what is reasonable, and taking his petty hatred and anger out on children who had no control or responsibility for anything that happened (Harry as a replacement for his father, what James did to Snape, and Lilly choosing James over Snape, and Neville for not being the one Voldemort decided to pursue which resulted in the death of Lilly and James when he went after Harry instead) etc. He was unfair to anyone who wasn't in his house, even to the point of deliberately sabotaging Harry to justify giving him an incomplete and hurting his grades in Snape's class, plus his reign of fear, bullying and intimidation created a horrible learning environment, making him a horrible teacher and human being. That being said, he was also extremely brave, to the point where it is almost incomprehensible the amount of courage and skill it would take to lie to Voldemort over and over again for years without ever getting found out. Because Snape knew he was risking his life every single time he answered the call to go to Voldemort, and whenever he had to toe the line of giving just enough secret information, and doing just enough of what was demanded of him, while still actively fighting on the side of Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix. He was extremely intelligent and gifted, and an extremely powerful wizard. He saved the wizarding world, and his tragic story is definitely something that has made him a character I absolutely love. As for his love for Lily, I don't really know where I stand. I mean, I see your point about him caring too much about her to result to love potions or the like, and that he did - no matter how grudgingly - accept that Lily chose James, and left them alone. That being said, he spent close to 30 years focusing on Lily, wanting to be with her, being unable to move on from her choosing James, makes it clear that he doesn't care if James and Harry dies as long as Lily lives, which would obviously destroy the woman he is supposed to love as she would have lost her husband and child... there are quite a few problematic things that, to ME, at the very least makes it a very immature and selfish kind of love. If he had listened to her when she didn't want him to associate with, and befriend, a group of people who hated everyone of her blood status, and wanted to see them be either dead or as subservient death, she might actually have ended up with Snape as he so desperately wanted - but he didn't, choosing instead to blame James for her turning her back on him when she felt she could no longer defend or try to justify his actions and choices anymore, simply because they were childhood friends once upon a time, rather than take responsibility for why he lost her. But yeah... the fact that I can love and admire him, while I hate and despise him too, is why he is one of my favorite characters of the series. I LOVE that he is so complex, and that he isn't all good or all bad, and he was very well written.

This video is the reason you are my favourite RU-vidr. Love you Seamus.

I asked my dad (a.k.a. not a true HP fan) if he thought that Snape was good or evil. He said good. I almost cried, I was so happy.

"Always" -Severus Snape. As in, he always loved Lily, not he was always obsessed with her! He loved her!

I don’t like Snape, If Neville has been the chosen one, he would have ended up at #1 death eater. I respect that he died for the good of the wizarding world, I dislike the fact that he still pined over lily after she got married, had a child, and died. He hated her son to the point where he though Snape was evil. I respect some things he did, he was a good character with a very detailed ark, but I think that this thing I found explains pretty well. “James and lily fought against the dark because they believed in the light, Snape fought the dark because it had offended him

3:20, I recall a certain comment from the first book about the importance of being able to stand up not only to our enemies but to our friends

I mis snape and Fred

Maybe Snaps wasn't a good teacher, but he was a good person

Snape was my favorite Too responsible smart funny and had valid criticisms of Harry and his crew even if he was a bit of a bully .

I love your videos, Seamus Gorman.

I agree with you on SO MANY levels. SNAPE WAS NOT A VILLAIN! A bully, yes, NOT A VILLAIN. WHY DO PEOPLE SAY HE IS?! WHY!?

Mr. Incredible is lowkey my favorite villian

Seamus: [Sarcastically refers to Daenerys as a villain to prove a point] Me: "Well that didn't age well."

Snape fits all 4 houses. He is brave and courageous, hardworking, intelligent, ambitious and cunning.

Snape is one of my favorite characters too. He is so misunderstood, whoever still doesn't understand how brave he was should read the books again.

STOP WITH ALL THE SNAPE HATE! He was a TRIPLE AGENT, always working for Dumbledore and protecting Harry.

That bit about daenarys did not age well

" I was 3 months old by the day and was unfortunately deemed to young to fight " Lolllllllll

Exactly , snape was one of the best and most complex charecters

Snape is a brave hero, Peter Pettigrew was a coward and he was in Griffindor but no one talks about the traitor that started the books. HMMMM I WONDER >:(

You nailed it, again. Snapped love for Lilly was as true as love can get. Their relationship is actually sad because in fact they were soul mates (as Shape believed) as displayed by their protronous charm. Soul mates don't always end in "happily ever afters".

Yikes...that Daenerys joke DID NOT AGE WELL

i wouldnt call snape evil ... only strict...

let's be real, Umbridge was one of the worst villans ever

I guess this was my favourite video, and Snap my character. Can You imagine the trauma he went through? Abusive father, bullying at school and then losing the only one he ever loved to his bully. It's enough to make someone a Death eater but still, He came back for the right thing, saving Harry Potter with no appreciation or expectation in return. It's crule to call me a villain. He is and will always be my Hero. Always. (if You ever lost anyone You deeply loved, You will know. And no abuser can be committed to someone for 38 years)

3:39, when Harry confronts Sirius and Lupin about James Potter’s bullying of Snape, Sirius is ashamed of it and Lupin feels guilty about it. We never really see Snape regret his treatment of Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville

Here is what I think regarding Snape: I do not like him. I do not think he is a racist, a coward, evil or obsessed, I do believe he really loved Lily and he felt REMORSE for what he did, remember that REMORSE is the only thing capable of mending a broken soul so I do believe he redeem himself and was a better man after Lily's murder, HOWEVER, I do not justify his unfairness towards Harry and his friends, how he literally bullied them and how he discharged all the hatred he felt towards James and Siruis on Harry. He had MANY good qualities we discovered at the end but they DO NOT justify his actions as an adult.

I am actually pretty upset by these hate comments towards Snape, because he is one of my favorite charakters and because his death made my cry the most. 😭

FINALLY! My favourite character is Snape and someone is finally defending him! I've literally wrote an entire book trying to get reasons that he is a good guy!

This is awesome Seamus! Thanks for making this video! I have seen some of your videos before but I had not seen this until now. Snape is certainly my fav. character as well! Snape loved Lily~ so obviously if he was for only pure bloods that much he couldn't love Lily! Also his Patronus was like Lily's so yes! He loved her! Voldemort was conceived under a Love potion so I agree with you on this as well! If he just wanted Lily to be with him he would have made a potion after all he was a potions master!

snape is my favourite too so i am *TRIGGERED*

I'm going to drink a shot everytime Snape saves Harry's ass wish me luck guys

I didn't even know that Snape is hated, he is one of my favorite characters in Harry Potter.

3:39, also as Lupin himself points out the fact that he knew his friends bullying of Snape was wrong but did absolutely nothing to stop it itself is an argument that he was even worse than they were.