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Sometimes I think this fandom forgets that the Marauders and Snape are boomers. I just saw an "rip Lily Evans you would have loved Dolly Parton" post and like... Dolly Parton began her career in the 60s. Lily most definitely would have listened to "Jolene" as a 13 year old kid. And as a fanfic writer myself, I don't want to unnecessarily dunk on anyone's hard work, but it is a pet peeve of mine when I search for fics set in the Marauders era during the 1970s and the characters all sound like they are heavily involved in 2024 tumblr discourse. These kids would have never heard the term "genderfluid." They would call themselves transsexual or a butch dyke and there would be 212% more cigarette smoke, just everywhere. Fuck there was a designated smoking area at my boomer parents' high school for students and so long as the parents signed the permission slip the kids could go there and smoke. This was incredibly common (at least in American high schools) pre-1980s. Like, I can see the Evans family playing a game of lawn darts, Mr Evans with a beer in one hand, a cigarette in his mouth, throwing highly dangerous lawn darts that would eventually be recalled because of all the deaths it caused. Severus Snape had most certainly absorbed lead from the leaded paint in his house. Nobody was going to call the cops on any abuse they might see going on in the Snape's house because its the 1960/1970s and "how Mr. Snape disciplines his son is his business." War rationing had just ended 6 years before Snape, Lily, and the Marauders were born. Mental illness was extremely taboo, dyslexia wasn't really recognized in schools or talked about until the 1980s, after the Marauders had graduated, a lot of people were still calling PTSD "shell shock." For Muggles, there was no real DNA testing (it was in its infancy), no cellphones you had to pray there was a payphone nearby, and you wpuld talk to a telephone operator. It wasn't until 1966 that the UK switched to an all-digit telephone numbers. Before then instead of an area code it was a central office in every city/region that used letters. So if Lily, as a six year old girl, wanted to talk to her grandma in Manchester, her mother would have dialed something like MAN-9126 (I actually have no idea what Manchester's central office code was lol, this is just an example). Cokeworth is likely a Victorian mill town, and the major push to replace outdoor plumbing with indoor plumbing didn't start until the 1960s. Severus would have most likely spent his early years without indoor plumbing while living in a rowhouse built in the 1860s. Tubs would have had to be filled by hand, laundry scrubbed by hand and hung out to dry, he would have used an outdoor toilet and considering he is in a poor urban area he most likely would have shared this toilet with his neighbors in the other rowhouses.

These characters' story are shaped by the time they lived in, and sometimes I think the fandom doesn't realize how different the 1960s and 1970s really was.

it bothers me how snaters completely ignore severus' socioeconomic situation when analyzing the character. like, that's a fundamental point about him.

i live in a country where social inequality is extensive and i see how sects and radical groups take advantage of the economic and psychological vulnerability of young people and working-class adults to entice them.

i think harry potter is a work that deals mainly with class and class dynamics, but this issue is very neglected in most discussions.

Severus Snape in his 20s vs Snape in his late 40s

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I don't think people think enough about the fact that Snape couldn't denounce the DE slytherins and their beliefs, even if he wanted to. He slept next to them, went to classes, possibly studied with them, while being a poor half-blood who was best friends with a muggleborn. He couldn't say anything contrary to their beliefs, because if it got back to them he wouldn't have a safe place in his dorm. Not to mention that by going along or being a bystander at the least, he still got his name out, so he could build his image seperate from his surname(s). So he wouldn't have to be a poor half-blood anymore.

Not to mention that lets say he does disagree with them, imagine living with people with wildly different beliefs than you, that have literally tortured, harmed, or possibly killed, those like or similar to you in blood status. You too would keep your mouth shut just to survive.

And if he did believe all that, he was a child. A CHILD. He believed them because that was what everyone around him was spewing, everyone that didn't treat him like complete and total trash, because he conformed to their beliefs.

So we can argue all we want about how he should have done better or that he was completely evil as a TEENAGER for beliving his peers mentality. But, thats not how the real world works, people conform or stay silent to survive, not everyone is born naturally able to protest wrongs, or rebel against systems, especially not if they are just trying to survive and find a safe place to belong, one where they're respected. And that is okay, especially if they do find a way to do so later on, and he did.

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