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Sharp March 2025 - 28. Fashion
Aesop gets dressed in the morning.
Yes, this is basically just descriptions of Aesop dressing up. That's it. But hey, tell me you don't enjoy the image of Aesop getting ready to be that handsome rugged professor in the morning, I dare you 🤣
28. Fashion (1k)
Aesop Sharp slowly wiped what remained of the shaving cream off his face and neck, before splashing some water on his face.
He observed his handiwork in the mirror above the basin, turning his head to make sure the trim was as symmetrical as possible. It usually was; after all, he had decades upon decades of experience with shaving and otherwise caring for his facial hair, and he had kept this particular style for over ten years now. He ran a finger over his moustache, his jaw, chin and finally neck, just making sure the feel was alright.
Sharp March 2025 - 27. Howler
Aesop's Auror partner sends him a rather loud letter.
Yes, I'm aware I'm late, but I only managed to write 27. and 28. today, and I've no bloody clue what to write for 29. Time Turner. Luckily, I do know that 30. Vacation will be a slightly nsfw smut, so, uh, when i manage to think up what to write for Time Turner, you can look forward to that 😅
27. Howler (1k)
“Aesop Theodore Sharp, how dare you?!” Shrieked the envelope, Ashley's voice booming in the space of their office. The woman herself was casually sitting at her desk, drinking her tea, while the howler she sent to her partner was screaming into his face.
Aesop sighed and rubbed at his temples. He hoped the loud screaming wouldn't give him a headache, as he was all out of Wiggenweld potion. He could get more, he supposed, from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement stores, but the lady working there had been sending him strange looks lately, and it honestly felt so awkward, Aesop half resigned himself to take up brewing his own potions again.
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"I don't know what they told her, but she rode behind me obediently. I brought her deep into the woods, and then..."
okay honestly warhorse you didn't have to give a random npc a lore so deep
but god damn i love vostatek so much, my poor guy :(
#incredible fanart#vostatek#honestly#who wouldve thunk it that this character who started as pretty much a comic relief would become a character so haunted by what he had to do#all in service of his lord no way to refuse without risking his or his family's safety#fuck you otto von bergow#shame we didnt let Sam spear you like a pig
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An analysis of Severus Snape as a teacher
"Three things always come up in the context of Snape’s abusiveness. One of them is not something Snape does but a reaction to him.
1. Threatened to Poison Neville’s Toad
This is one of two direct interactions between Snape and Neville in the books. Since it merits real-time narration, it must stand out: Snape is at his worst at this moment.
A particularly nasty mood is understandable:
“have you heard? Daily Prophet this morning — they reckon Sirius Black’s been sighted.” “Where?” [...] “Not too far from here,” said Seamus.
Snape believes that Black betrayed the Potters and wants to go after Harry. Black also nearly murdered Snape in their fifth year, so Snape has reason to be on edge.
His potion, which was supposed to be a bright, acid green, had turned — “Orange, Longbottom,” said Snape, ladling some up and allowing it to splash back into the cauldron, so that everyone could see [Harry assumes]. “Orange. Tell me, boy, does anything penetrate that thick skull of yours? Didn’t you hear me say, quite clearly, that only one rat spleen was needed? Didn’t I state plainly that a dash of leech juice would suffice? What do I have to do to make you understand, Longbottom?” Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears. “Please, sir,” said Hermione, “please, I could help Neville put it right —” “I don’t remember asking you to show off, Miss Granger,” said Snape coldly, and Hermione went as pink as Neville. “Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly.”
Not great. Snape is not a suitable teacher for an introductory class, or for insecure children like Neville, but abusive, this is not. The fact that Neville brought Trevor to class shows that Neville never expected to be very severely sanctioned for doing that or for Trevor to come to any harm, before that lesson. Snape is at the end of his rope with Neville and wants him to take the lesson seriously. He states his motives plainly - to get Neville to understand.
Did he mean harm to Trevor? Snape is competent enough that if he’d wanted that toad dead, it would be. In any case, the potion turned out alright, and Snape knew it - he can tell from the way the potion looks. Snape also has a bottle of the antidote in his other pocket:
Snape picked up Trevor the toad in his left hand and dipped a small spoon into Neville’s potion, which was now green. He trickled a few drops down Trevor’s throat. There was a moment of hushed silence, in which Trevor gulped; then there was a small pop, and Trevor the tadpole was wriggling in Snape’s palm. The Gryffindors burst into applause. Snape, looking sour, pulled a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, poured a few drops on top of Trevor, and he reappeared suddenly, fully grown.
Is he sour because he hoped to kill Trevor? Why give it the antidote, thus saving it? Maybe he is sour for the reason he says he is:
“I told you not to help him, Miss Granger. Class dismissed.”
This is also why he docks five points, not because Neville got it right. This was a misguided attempt to teach. Nothing was ever going to happen to Trevor.
[Sidenote: Animal cruelty is commonplace at Hogwarts. sentient or semi-sentient animals are experimented on regularly in Transfig. They even vanish cats. Even the herbology plants seem able to feel pain, but 2nd year students are expected to chop up humanoid mandrakes. Flitwick demonstrates levitation on Trevor, and Harry practices Accio on him.]
Let's be clear here: putting the wrong number of spleens into a potion suggests someone who either doesn't consider the instructions to be important, or simply doesn't care.
Something else to consider is just how dangerous someone like Neville is to the class. In university, one of the requirements for my degree was Organic Chemistry, which contained a large lab portion to it. Organic Chemistry, for those who don't know, is chemistry that focuses on carbon-containing compounds, which includes things like oils and chloroform. To put it mildly, it's dangerous. Many of the compounds used are either explosive, or are placed in potentially explosive situations. Many of the chemicals are directly dangerous all on their own, too.
Rules in that lab were particularly strict, they have to be, because one wrong move could end disastrously. Case in point, one of the experiments involved a type of round bottom flask which were needed to heat a set of chemicals in. Critically, the pressure had to be relieved from the flask. The instructor told us what happened in a prior class when someone had failed to do so: it exploded, and everyone in the lab was lucky none of the glass had cut anyone. That particular person was ejected from the lab for it, and with good reason.
Potion class seems just as dangerous at the end of the day, perhaps more so since unlike chemistry where adding different amounts of ingredients is more likely to cause the reaction to fail, people like Neville appear to be able to produce something, it's just something that's likely to be toxic or have completely unexpected effects. We know from the books that producing an antidote to a blended toxin is a complicated, almost quantum endeavour, I shudder to think what you need to do to properly reverse or mitigate the effects of a poorly blended potion are.
Similarly, Snape isn't being cruel when he docks points for Hermione's successful recovery of Neville's toxic potion, because in actuality what we see here is an academic offense; Neville is essentially presenting someone else's work as his own." (reddit)
Plus, bringing a pet to class always causes problems,specially if it is to the wixen equivalent of a chemistry class.
Granted his bad mood does not in any way excuse or justify his actions towards neville but it does help explain them.
2. Neville’s Boggart
"True, his boggart is Snape.
This does not mean that Snape is truly scary. (assuming Snape is scary because Neville fears him because he is scary is circular reasoning). His fear of Snape is not overwhelming or traumatizing. Neville’s fear is on par with Ron’s fear of spiders (which itself was caused by the twins, who are much scarier), Dean’s fear of hands, etc.
If Snape had been abusive, other students would not have found this funny, and Neville would not have smiled. If the fear had been overwhelming, Neville would not have defeated the boggart on his first try.
Neville looked around rather wildly, as though begging someone to help him, then said, in barely more than a whisper, “Professor Snape.” Nearly everyone laughed. Even Neville grinned apologetically. Professor Lupin, however, looked thoughtful. “Professor Snape... hmmm… Neville, I believe you live with your grandmother?” “Er — yes,” said Neville nervously. “But — I don’t want the boggart to turn into her either.”
Neville seems more scared of admitting he fears Snape than of Snape. He does not want to confront his grandmother either, probably because, like Snape, she makes him feel inadequate, which is what really scares him. But she should have loved Neville unconditionally and not compared him to his parents, and Snape is his teacher, whose job it is to let him know when he is doing poorly.
Neville defeats his Snape boggart on his first attempt because it’s a trivial fear. Molly, an adult witch and the bad-ass who killed Bellatrix, fails to beat her boggart, in OOTP, because there’s nothing trivial about her fear of losing her husband or her children.
Snape is listed among the meaningless boggarts the kids defeated with ease:
“Did you see me take that banshee?” shouted Seamus. “And the hand!” said Dean, waving his own around. “And Snape in that hat!” “And my mummy!”
This is the textbook definition of a boggart:
Hermione put up her hand. “It’s a shape-shifter,” she said. “It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.” “Couldn’t have put it better myself,” said Professor Lupin.
The boggart is whatever’s on your mind, not your true deepest, darkest fear (unless Ron is a monster for fearing spiders when just last year, he nearly lost Ginny). POA already introduces a creature that actually makes you relive your worst moments - Dementors. Introducing two creatures that do essentially the same thing is redundant. Snape’s on Neville’s mind because this lesson immediately follows the toad scene.
If that does not convince you: Hermione’s boggart is McGonagall (but actually, failure).
An out-of-universe explanation for Neville’s fear of Snape is that his parents’ story, just like the Cruciatus curse, did not exist at the time of writing the boggart scene. You’d think Draco would tease Neville about it, if it had existed by POA.
This passage is from GOF, after the lesson about unforgivables, in which Neville was clearly thinking about his parents:
“What was that?” said Seamus Finnigan, staring at the egg as Harry slammed it shut again. “Sounded like a banshee... Maybe you’ve got to get past one of those next, Harry!” “It was someone being tortured!” said Neville, who had gone very white and spilled sausage rolls all over the floor. “You’re going to have to fight the Cruciatus Curse!”
This scene shows that Harry is unlike the rest of his classmates because his fears are real and serious. It provides comic relief, because the big meanie is in drag. It’s the beginning of Neville’s arc from someone who fears Snape in Y3 to someone who leads the DA in Y7 and fears nothing. It hints at the Snape-Marauders relationship. It’s used to make Snape’s behavior in the werewolf lesson seem petty and vindictive, to obfuscate the fact that it actually takes place right after Sirius infiltrates the castle for the first time, which is what’s actually bothering him.
In conclusion, the boggart says nothing about Snape, only about Neville.
3. I see no difference
In context:
“And what is all this noise about?” said a soft, deadly voice. Snape had arrived. The Slytherins clamored to give their explanations; Snape pointed a long yellow finger at Malfoy and said, “Explain.” “Potter attacked me, sir —” “We attacked each other at the same time!” Harry shouted. “— and he hit Goyle — look —” Snape examined Goyle, whose face now resembled something that would have been at home in a book on poisonous fungi. “Hospital wing, Goyle,” Snape said calmly. “Malfoy got Hermione!” Ron said. “Look!” He forced Hermione to show Snape her teeth — she was doing her best to hide them with her hands, though this was difficult as they had now grown down past her collar. Pansy Parkinson and the other Slytherin girls were doubled up with silent giggles, pointing at Hermione from behind Snape’s back. Snape looked coldly [as opposed to his usual smirk/smile, when he enjoys whatever he’s saying. Also, what’s the difference between being “calm” and being “cold”? Harry is awful at reading people, and at reading Snape in particular] at Hermione, then said, “I see no difference.” Hermione let out a whimper; her eyes filled with tears.
Snape is demanding an explanation from Malfoy, not the trio. Harry admits that both of them attacked each other. You’d think Snape will never miss an opportunity to punish Harry, who attacked his favorite, right? Wrong. He sends Goyle to the hospital wing calmly, despite Goyle being in pretty bad shape. Ron seems to expect Snape to be helpful, otherwise, why does he direct his attention to Hermione? The Slytherin girls hide their giggling from Snape, as if expecting him to discipline them if he sees them. But he simply says he sees no difference. Why is he acting this way, so out of character? Because at this point, in GOF, the Dark Mark is already growing darker and Voldemort is coming back. Snape will soon have to resume his spying role. He cannot act like he otherwise would have, which is to punish everyone, including the Death Eaters’ children - he is downplaying the whole thing to avoid punishing anyone.
Did he absolutely have to mock Hermione? No. Does he ever do that in any other context? No. It was an easy way to demonstrate his hatred of Harry and supposed disdain for his Muggle-born friend, when he needed to reinforce that image of himself.
Some resentment is understandable: Hermione had set Snape on fire, stolen from him, and slammed him against a wall, knocking him unconscious. That she gets away with a mean-spirited comment indicates that he doesn’t hate her.
He wasn’t even necessarily thinking of her teeth. He might have meant “ISND between what Malfoy did to you, and what Potter did to Goyle”, “ISND between what I told Goyle to do, and what you should do”. We know he can insult her outright when he wants to, and nothing stopped JKR from writing “your teeth look the same as yesterday.”
Maybe he was thinking about how, just a few chapters previously, McGonagall had watched Moody torture Draco, and instead of asking Draco how he was feeling (redundant question, since he was visibly in pain, but it would have been her duty nonetheless), and sending him to the Hospital Wing, she had allowed Moody to drag him away for more punishment, meaning it was she who had set the precedent that students in obvious distress can be dismissed.
She gets over this comment instantly. She even defends Snape later in the same book, and up until he kills Dumbledore.
Snape is definitely an asshole. Here are other bad things he does:
- The first Potions lesson: calls Neville an idiot and then accuses Harry of not helping Neville because he wanted to look good. Absurd.
- “Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We’ll be sending what’s left of Finch-Fletchley up to the hospital wing in a matchbox.” Hilarious, but ouch!
- Calls Hermione an insufferable-know-it-all (which she was), following several more civilized attempts to shut her up.
- Reading the article about Harry in front of everyone, when the Trio is discussing it in class instead of working, then separating them, ordering Harry to sit next to him, and taking the opportunity to taunt him, culminating in calling Harry a “nasty little boy” and threatening to use Veritaserum on him. This is clearly an empty threat, or Snape would have simply slipped him some without warning him, like Umbridge (not that the legilimens needed to).
- Doesn’t punish the Slytherin who hexed Alicia Spinnet before the big Quidditch game (McG before that: “I’ve become accustomed to seeing the Quidditch Cup in my study, boys, and I really don’t want to have to hand it over to Professor Snape, so use the extra time [from the lack of homework] to practice, won’t you?”
- In the first occlumency lesson, calls Harry a lamentable potions maker (irrelevant and uncalled for), as well as implicitly calling him stupid: “The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are.” Why should Harry know how legilimency works? He’s never heard of it. Even that can be explained away, though: Voldemort might be spying on the lesson through Harry’s eyes.
- When escorting Harry from the train to the school in HBP, he calls Tonk’s Patronus weak, and needles Harry. He accuses Harry of only wanting attention: “I suppose you wanted to make an entrance, did you?” Then he says this: “No cloak. You can walk in so that everyone sees you, which is what you wanted, I’m sure.” Make up your mind, Snape.
- When Harry says ghosts are transparent: “Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter.” When Ron points out that this is the most useful way to tell ghosts and inferi apart, because inferi are solid, he says this: “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.” Possible explanation: Harry and Ron were publicly discussing Snape’s and Fletcher’s involvement in the Order, so shutting them up was imperative.
That’s 9 things, so with the toad scene and ISND, that’s 11 bad things Snape does to students, in 6 years. Snape is the teacher we spend the most time with, so we get a large enough sample to have an accurate impression of him. All of his transgressions are insults of varying severity, and that’s it.
He’s rude to everyone, not just his inferiors: Tonks and Sirius, fellow Order members, Bellatrix, a “fellow” Death Eater, and even Dumbledore, his superior in every way. Yes, he should have been gentler with students. He is harsh, unkind, strict, impatient, and overbearing, but not bullying or abusive.
His treatment of Harry is truly unfair. He projects the trauma James had caused him onto Harry, which is completely undeserved (but he also protects Harry out of guilt and love for Lily, which is also, strictly speaking, undeserved). Snape doesn’t see Harry for who he is, but even that is not as superficial as it seems, and it’s not entirely the result of Snape’s “immaturity” (i.e., long-term trauma).
- PS: When they first make eye-contact, both of them are set on the wrong path because of Quirrell. Harry feels a pain when Snape is looking at him, pulls a face, and continues to stare at Snape. The legilimens might be sensing Voldemort in him. Harry then sasses at him in the very first lesson, and nearly knocks him off his broom.
- COS: Harry arrives at school by flying car, launches a seemingly random attack on Slytherins, the appears to be encouraging the snake to attack Justin.
- POA: Harry displays recklessness truly worthy of his father, sneaking off to Hogsmeade, throwing snowballs at Malfoy, lying about it
- GOF: Harry becomes the center of attention. Snape resents this, as do Ron and Sprout. Twice, the legilimens is looking into Harry’s eyes while Harry is fantasizing about hurting him.
- OOTP: Harry violates Snape’s privacy and endangers him, Snape does not know that Harry regrets the whole thing. He also catches Harry at this:
“What are you doing, Potter?” said Snape coldly as ever, as he strode over to the four of them. “I’m trying to decide what curse to use on Malfoy, sir,” said Harry fiercely. Snape stared at him.
This must have been flashback-inducing. What we see as fiercely, Snape sees as vicious.
6. HBP: Harry hexes people at random, including Filch, and worst of all, Snape catches Harry casting Sectumsempra on Draco.
Snape has a disincentive to try with Harry: He knows he will return to Voldemort as a spy. The cover story is, “I thought Voldemort was finished, and that Harry did it.” Becoming buds with Harry would have been inexplicable; becoming buds with Harry and then NOT using that to deliver Harry to Voldemort (i.e., what BCJ has done) - unforgivable. Snape relied heavily on half-truths and misdirection but there was one thing he could be honest with Voldemort about: He hates Harry with a passion. That, ironically, helped him protect Harry.
FWIW, I believe the memory of Snape ranting about Harry, and Dumbledore dismissing Snape and telling him he’s wrong, is included as an apology.
Snape’s three biggest victims are Harry, who names a child after him; Hermione, who doesn’t mind him and even likes him; and Neville, who clearly got over it with ease.
Dumbledore will never fire Snape. He has a free pass to be as cruel as he wants, because he has a cover to keep. Other than the DADA teachers and Hagrid, he is the least experienced, and he is the youngest by far except for, briefly, Lockhard and Lupin. Hogwarts is a site of lifelong trauma for him. Since he is so young, some of his students probably saw or heard about him being publicly humiliated. It also meant that he was initially barely older than some of the students' siblings, so he had to cultivate a very strict persona to control his classroom.
Hence, if you find judging teachers’ conduct in a children’s book a worthwhile pursuit (I don’t think it is, but here we are), Snape should be judged less harshly, not more harshly.
He has no incentive to dial down his cruelty and a wealth of excuses for being cruel, so the cruelty we see in him is the worst he could do, despite being under extreme stress. Yet it is limited to sarcastic remarks, docked points, and mild detentions.
He never lays a hand or a wand on a student, except when pulling Harry out of the Pensieve and then blowing up a jar over his head. Pulling him out was obviously justified - Harry not only violated his privacy and humiliated him, he also risked showing Voldemort classified memories. I believe that if he had wanted the jar to hit Harry, it would have, and he missed on purpose. He never takes advantage of his position over students or his relationship with them, and his punishments are never dangerous.
But he is biased, right?
Not as biased as people think. He has issues with the Trio+Neville, but not other Gryffs, or with students in other houses. He assigns zero house points, including to Slytherins, and his deductions are rarely substantial. He does not bend the rules to get a 1st year student on the Quidditch team, and he does not give 170 last minute points.
Unlike points, grades do matter, and he grades fairly:
According to Lucius in COS, Hermione beat Draco in every test, including potions:
“I would have thought you’d be ashamed that a girl of no wizard family beat you in every exam,” snapped Mr. Malfoy.
Harry expects Snape to grade him fairly, when he tries:
Determined not to give Snape an excuse to fail him this lesson, Harry read and reread every line of instructions on the blackboard at least three times before acting on them.
Harry does fail. This is the Strengthening Solution they work on over two lessons. In the second lesson, Harry isn’t paying attention because he is too busy listening in on Umbridge’s interrogation.
Except the bit where Harry's vial breaks, there is no evidence that he grades unfairly. This was petty, but Hermione is the one who vanished the rest of the potion and prevented him from being able to turn in a second sample.
At the end of the lesson he scooped some of the potion into a flask, corked it, and took it up to Snape’s desk for marking, feeling that he might at last have scraped an E. He had just turned away when he heard a smashing noise; [...] His potion sample lay in pieces on the floor, and Snape was watching him with a look of gloating pleasure. “Whoops,” he said softly. “Another zero, then, Potter…” Harry was too incensed to speak. He strode back to his cauldron, intending to fill another flask and force Snape to mark it, but saw to his horror that the rest of the contents had vanished. “I’m sorry!” said Hermione.
This is after Harry views SWM. Assuming Snape did this on purpose (we don’t know), he might have been vindictive or he might have been putting on a show of it because Voldemort was watching through Harry’s eyes.
Snape appears unfair in the sense that when Harry does poorly, he receives poorer grades than he deserves (in Harry’s opinion), but when Harry does well, he expects to be graded fairly (OOTP29). Specifically, Harry complains that Snape grades only him unfairly, and not Ron or Neville, meaning that the issue is with Harry and not with all Gryffindors (OOTP12+15).
Snape’s bias shows only in that he does not punish his own students for their wrongdoings on-page. However, Slytherins wait until Snape’s back is turned to misbehave, and that includes Draco, Snape’s favorite:
- In the ISND incident, Pansy and her friends giggle behind Snape’s back.
- Draco flashes his Potter Stinks badges when Snape’s attention is directed elsewhere.
- Draco taunts Harry with his “remedial potions?!” jeer when Snape isn’t looking.
- Right before the toad incident, Draco was pretending to be badly hurt, and pointed out to Snape that Ron (who was sitting next to him and whom Snape had asked to help Draco) wasn’t helping him properly. Draco lowers his voice to admit he pretends to be hurt partly because it means Snape will have someone help him.
They routinely bother to hide their nastiness, because they expect some sort of sanction. McGonagall sends Slytherin transgressors to Snape for punishment, meaning she expects him to handle them.
Snape also assigns Crabbe and Goyle detentions liberally to make sure they “pass their DADA OWLs”. This is also done to thwart Draco’s attempts to kill Dumbledore, but nobody is surprised at this.
Snape is a very effective teacher and the students don’t all hate him
In Y2, Snape teaches students about Polyjuice Potion, which exceeds the curriculum requirements. Umbridge’s objective is to discredit Dumbledore’s hires, but even she recognizes that his class is advanced. Snape constantly explains to the students what they did wrong, even if Harry calls this bullying. His exam pass rate is high: The trio earns two Es and one O even though Harry and Ron don’t care about the subject. Snape is an effective, albeit very imperfect, teacher (Harry, Ron, and Hermione all earn the same grade in Potions as they do in Charms and Transfiguration; Neville can be deduced to have passed his Potions and his Transfiguration OWLs with an A).
He only admits O students into his NEWT potions class, whereas Minerva is “very pleased” with Harry’s E. This is not as restrictive as it sounds:
This is the composition of Harry’s 6th year Potions class:
The four Slytherins took a table together, as did the four Ravenclaws. This left Harry, Ron, and Hermione to share a table with Ernie.
Everyone but Harry and Ron had earned Os, because they all had the textbook already. That’s at least 10 out of 28* students in Harry’s year who got the highest grade.
*There is some debate about the size of Harry’s year. I’m only counting students who have names.
25 out of 25 eligible students take DADA with Snape in their 6th year:
”Before we start, I want your dementor essays,” said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk.
The missing ones are Crabbe and Goyle, who failed their OWLs, and Abbott, who left.
Neville definitely took DADA with Snape:
Typically, ten minutes into the lesson Hermione managed to repel Neville’s muttered JellyLegs Jinx, a feat that would surely have earned her twenty points for Gryffindor from any reasonable teacher.
Harry whines, but note that Snape doesn’t take points from Neville for muttering, either.
That’s how unbiased students talk about Snape:
“Harry,” Ernie said [...], “didn’t get a chance to speak in Defense Against The Dark Arts this morning. Good lesson, I thought.”
Safety is his top priority
Snape:
- stops Ron from hitting Draco
- Upon hearing that a student had been taken into the Chamber - he was distressed enough that he had to grab a chair "very hard" (even though his Slytherins alone were not in danger)
- is the one who nags Lupin to drink his potion in POA, and not the other way around
- runs into the Shrieking Shack to face Black and Lupin on the full moon to save the trio
- when the egg starts screaming in GOF, runs toward the sound of someone screaming as though they’re being tortured in the middle of the night
- Supplies Umbridge with fake Veritaserum
- Orders Harry to release Neville when he thinks Ron and Harry are fighting him
- Saves Neville from being choked by Crabbe
- Runs toward a woman screaming in the middle of an occlumency lesson (it’s Trelawney getting fired)
- Makes an unbreakable vow to protect Draco, keeps it
- Runs toward Myrtle’s cries of a murder, not knowing who was hurt or how and what danger he might face there
- Steers Hermione+Luna out of harm’s way before the Astronomy Tower battle
- After killing Dumbledore, he stops Death Eaters from Cruciating Harry when Harry confronts him. Harry tries to curse Snape, including an attempt at Crucio, yet Snape risks breaking cover to spare Harry pain
- He is the one Dumbledore assigned to keep students safe during DH. Snape did not have to stay at Hogwarts at that point, both of them knew Harry won't be attending next year, so this had nothing to do with the original mission, Dumbledore just trusted him this much, and rightly so - nobody is reported to have died during Snape's year as headmaster, which is more than can be said for Dumbledore. Within this, he Sent the silver trio to Hagrid as a form of "punishment" for trying to steal the sword.
Only in one of these cases is Harry even in the picture (that Snape knows of before springing into action). I omitted things like saving Harry in PS. In one case, he leaves Harry to go see what’s going on. Also not included are multiple instances of Snape saving students at no risk to himself or to his cover, by brewing potions or using his Dark Arts expertise (COS, HBP). His attempts to save adult characters are not included either.
“Her [the Doe Patronus’s] presence had meant safety.” (r/harrypotter on reddit)
Note: the writer of this post said it the the title that Snape is the best teacher at Hogwarts, wich i frankly do not agree with as, despite being a master in his subjects and prioritizing safety, Snape comes of as unaproachable to his students wich causes strugling students like Neville to go to peers for help instead of him, wich is far from ideal.
Sharp March 2025 - 26. Colleague (*)
Aesop and his colleague have a bit of not-so-innocent fun...
tw: explicit - minors DNI!
This may be chaotic, but I was kind of working on a tight budget when it comes to time 😬Hopefully, it won't be too awful 😅
26. Colleague (1.6k)
“Ah!” The woman gasped, her nails digging into the wood of the counter and her toes curling in her shoes.
The afternoon light streamed in lazily from the windows, though if anyone attempted to look into them from outside right now, they’d see nothing but an empty potions shop, rather than its owner currently having his wife bent over the counter and thrusting into her from behind deliciously.
Sharp March 2025 - 25. Amortentia
Aesop Sharp teaches the lesson on the strongest Love Potion known to wizardkind.
After yesterday's sadness, I decided to have this fun full of longing and gently torturing Aesop. What fun! 🤣
25. Amortentia (1.8k)
This lesson wasn’t a good idea…
That is, Aesop knew that he couldn’t quite just skip over this particular lesson, it was, after all, a part of the seventh years’ NEWT class curriculum, and while brewing and using a potion such as Amortentia was dubious at best and criminal at worst, it was his firm belief that the students should, at the very least, know how to recognise it and how to remove its effects should they ever encounter someone on whom this potion was used.
Still, every single year he taught this particular lesson, he made sure to keep his eyes peeled for any potential troublemaker who might try to pinch a vial of the finished potion, for whatever reason - he really didn’t need even more work on his hands, and brewing a antidote for this potion was more work indeed, as the students would find out the very next lesson as well.
Sharp March 2025 - 24. Pensieve
A glimpse into the past; or The Memories of the Wedding Day.
In case you cried, please know that the blame lies with the absolutely brilliant @dzajna, who gave me the idea for this fic. Also, it's ok, I cried when writing it 😅
tw: sad
24. Pensieve (1.4k)
“Until the end of time,” Aesop Sharp whispered to his now wife once more.
The beautiful warm summer day turned into a brilliant night, and though the two of them were still surrounded by quite a number of people, their family and friends, at that moment, it was just the two of them.
The light from the party wasn't bright enough to reach them where they stood a bit away, by the water, and so instead they were illuminated only by the moon and the stars.
In Aesop's opinion, his bride looked like an ethereal being, more beautiful than a Veela, shimmering in her white dress under the starlight, and he told her as much, prompting her cheeks to flush under his words. He couldn't stop looking at her that day, couldn't stop tears from randomly appearing in his eyes even hours after the two of them said their ‘I do’ to each other.
Sharp March 2025 - 23. House Cup
Aesop Sharp and Dinah Hecat chat during the term end feast.
This one is a bit shorter, but, in my defence, I only wrote it in the past hour 😅
23. House Cup (0.8k)
“You needn’t hide how pleased you are this hard, Dinah,” Aesop Sharp grumbled from where he was sitting, though there was really no heat behind his words. He took a measured sip of his wine, washing down the incredible dinner he just enjoyed.
“Oh, come now, Aesop,” Dinah said from her spot, her smile reminding the potions master of a cat who got the cream, “Slytherin was at the third place even before the unexpected awarding of the extra points.”
Sharp March 2025 - 22. Admirer
Professor Sharp is a little apprehensive when he finds out his lover has a secret admirer.
Finally replied to all of the lovely comments 😅 Though it has been a pretty busy day 😁
22. Admirer (1.7k)
“What’s that?” Aesop Sharp asked neutrally as he watched you skim through a letter. It was an anonymous one, and not the first you have received over the past few weeks.
Frankly, you didn't think much of them. When the first one came, you made sure that it didn't have any curse or hex attached to it, and when it turned out it didn't, you pretty much only shook your head and wrote it off as just some silly joke.
Only the letters kept coming.
Sharp March 2025 - 21. Forbidden Forest
The Forbidden forest is not the best place for a romantic date, perhaps, but that doesn't mean amazing things can't happen in it.
At least I managed to write this little slice of life today.
21. Forbidden Forest (1.5k)
“You know, as much as I’m grateful for any opportunity to collect some ingredients, when I asked you out for a stroll, I didn’t exactly mean to the Forbidden Forest,” Aesop Sharp said a bit dryly, but a little smile was playing on his face anyway. His beloved was holding onto his arm, looking around with mild interest.
“It’s not so bad here,” she chirped happily, “if you don’t count the possibility of running into some large spider.”
“Or a troll,” Aesop added, “or an Inferius. Or a Dugbog. Or a pack of Mongrels. Or a group of particularly unfriendly Centaurs.”
The young woman rolled her eyes: “Alright, alright, I get it. Except the bit about Centaurs - you may or may not know, but I am a friend of the local herd, following the whole business with the Snigdets.”
Sharp March 2025 - 20. Obliviate
Auror Aesop Sharp and his (temporary) partner have a vaguely prehistoric problem on their hands.
This is as much as I've got right now. As I wrote two chapters earlier, I'm still not well. I'm trying to write 21. Forbidden forest right now, but I just feel completely dull. So, it might take a while for me to finish all of these. I'm sorry.
20. Obliviate (2k)
“Welsh Green, by the sound of things,” the redhead next to him said, poring over a piece of parchment.
“Sorry?” Aesop Sharp raised his eyes from a postcard he was in the middle of reading. It was from his usual partner, Ashley, who was away on her and her wife’s honeymoon over in Austria. The note she wrote for him was short and sweet, only a few sentences about how lovely the country is, how much the two of them are enjoying themselves, and how Aesop better not die on duty before she comes back.