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Hello!

deeply_horrible, a community devoted to characterisations of Severus Snape as—for lack of a better word—a bastard (no, not the kind born of unmarried parents), is hosting its first fest. Bring Back the Bastard! is a low-stress challenge for artists and writers to create entries focusing on Snape's less savoury side. You can read more about us and the fest on our profile. Anyone can leave prompts, join discussions, or rec favourite stories or art containing bastard!Snape.


Prompting runs at deeply_horrible from July 30th to August 5th!
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Here's our full schedule:

Prompting Period: 30 July-5 August 2012
Sign-Up Period: 6-12 August 2012
Prompt Assignments Sent by 13 August 2012
Assignment Confirmation: 16 August 2012
Entries Due: 28 October 2012
Posting Begins: 12 November 2012
The Reveal: 1 week after posting ends

Hope to see you there!

Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.

Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).

This month's challenge was suggested by oryx_leucoryx


oryx_leucoryx writes:

How about double agents in literature and movie? Especially when they are essential for the success of the more 'obvious' hero?

A while back my husband and I watched Dark City. We quickly realized that while John Murdoch is supposed to be the main character, the hero and savior, actually he couldn't have done anything without Dr Schreber. He couldn't have understood the situation, nor could he have prevailed in the confrontation with the Strangers. And considering that Schreber attempted to contact Murdoch from the very beginning of the movie, it seems he had a plan in place for a while and was waiting to find a person who had the traits that allowed to carry it out. IOW he was Severus, except there was no Albus in the picture.

This thread is for the listing of stories and/or movies where a double agent is central to saving the day. Where the plot depends on the actions of the one who joined the enemy but ended up sabotaging it.

Don't only list stories and movies, discuss them, compare them to Severus, point out similarities and differences.

But please, since this is going outside of the Potter fandom: leave a brief synopsis for the books/films you want to discuss and preferrably give us some links where we can learn more.

Have fun! There will be banners. Really. Promise...

No, not the movie. You'll talk about that anyway. ;)

I saw this yesterday on rattlesnakeroot's LJ, and today on the snapenews list.


There is a discussion in the Guardian about Potter sequels.

Should JK Rowling write another Harry Potter?

Novelist Naomi Alderman and children's writer Frank Cottrell Boyce debate whether another Harry Potter would be too much of a good thing

What do you think?

Att.: geri_chan, hafren, red_day_dawning, ory_leucoryx, mary_j_59, shyfoxling, oneandthetruth, protowilson, magalud, torino10154 and junewilliams7!

Here they are, the banners for the challenge about the last movie. Just in time before the new movie comes. Sheesh (wipes brow...)

You can find all of them here: http://snapedomfan.insanejournal.com/987.html

( Just one as an example under the cut )

In HBP, Severus tells Bellatrix that Harry "has fought his way out of a number of tight corners by a simple combination of sheer luck and more talented friends." Later, after the students have their Apparition lessons, he reminds Ron mockingly that he hasn't learned to Apparate properly yet. Hermione and her way of quoting textbooks has clearly annoyed him since her first year.

What does he mean by all this? Is he really just mocking Harry's lack of talent, Ron's failure at Apparition and Hermione's tendency to take books at face value? Or is there more to it? Does he take an interest in Hermione and Ron for Harry's sake, or for the sake of the cause? Like all the other teachers, he has to be aware of how important those two are to Harry. Is he helping them in any way? Teaching them lessons? Guiding them? Or is he merely extending his dislike of Harry to the two best friends?

Have fun with the discussion. Either start a new thread or post here. Anonymous users, please leave a handle with your posts. Participants will eventually get a banner.

Just in time for the new challenge, alicekinsno1 made a suggestion for a new challenge.

I think it fits in with last month's theme and the one I'll post next month which will be Severus vs. Hermione and Ron. So here it is:


alicekinsno1 suggests: Severus' relationship to Neville, definitely. We see that he's often cruel to Neville, and then there's the fact that Neville could have been the one targeted by Voldemort- and this is one of the biggest issues with people who don't like Severus, since they think Lily is the only reason Severus agreed to turn good. So maybe get some people to discuss what they think Severus feels about Neville, and also, what he would have done if Neville had been targeted instead of Harry.

I don't think we ever went into that in detail here, except for a side-note here or there. So go ahead, tell us what you think, write meta, creative meta, make art.

Anonymous posters are welcome as long as they use a handle. Members, please start your own thread, others can post their entries here or in reply to one of the other posts. Participants will get banners (sometimes in the remote future, cough.)

Have fun!

So, after I corrected the June banners (there was May 2009 as inscription instead of June), here are the overlooked May banners. If you got your banner yesterday, throw it away and get a new one, they are in yesterday's post.

May banners for janus, duj and 00sevvie are under the cut.

ETA: I put in May instead of June, headdesk! The corrected versions will be posted later today.are here now.


Yes, yes, I know...
But here they are now, enjoy!

The theme was, 'Severus and the art of flying' but I shortened it to Severus flies, because that fit in nicely with the 'Superman returns' header from the original here.



BTW, I still owe Werewolf banners to Janus, duj and 00sevvie. They will come. I didn't find them right away, because they were posted in June, not in May, and now I can't remember where I put the original photoshop file. Sigh. I need to get organized again. They are up now.

And: if I forgot someone, please tell me.

Lazily yours...

This month's challenge was suggested by heathersparrows


Positive communication between Snape and Harry is fairly nonexistent. Snape is too caught up in his bitter memories about Harry's father and the death of his mother, and so he poisons their teacher-student relationship from the beginning with snide remarks and - in Harry's view - often unfair behaviour, so the child and later the teenager hardly had another choice but to hate him in turn.

But what does Snape *show* Harry? His "worst memory": He knew Harry's inquisitive nature, so why does he leave he the pensieve in full view, and why does it contain memories a teenager of Harry's age could possibly relate to? Did he actually want this scene hidden from Harry? Or did a part of him actually *want* Harry to see the unpleasant sides of his father and godfather, maybe as a warning, and his furious reaction when he catches Harry is more or less a show?

Was it actually just an accident that Harry got the "half-blood prince's" old potions book? Or was it - pure speculation - deliberately left by Snape for Harry?

Thoughts on this?

Of course you can expand that, but keep in mind, the topic this time isn't Snape as a teacher, what does he want his students to learn. It's about what he wants to teach Harry in particular.

Have fun.

I have not forgotten your banners. I'm in a bit of a creative black pit at the moment (long, long moment). But they will come. Please suggest topics for monthly challenges. If I don't get any, I'll repost the old challenges, starting at the beginning.

***For this challenge it is ok to post short fic. Try to make it short. Let's keep the limit of one post (approx 10,000 words) as the length limit.***

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This challenge was suggested by 00sevvie

Slytherin is supposed to be the House of ambition, right? So what were Severus' ambitions throughout his life - not just during the war years, but his personal ambitions as well. Ambitions he might have had to lay aside after the debacle with the prophecy. Why was he Sorted to the House of ambition?

Have fun!

The challenge in May 2009 was: Severus and werewolves.
Banners are under the cut.

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This is NOT an april fool's prank. ;)

The topic was suggested by mary_j_59


One of the things Snape-haters often mention is his apparent lack of humour. Obviously, Snape-fans don't agree with that view at all. You have to understand subtlety and sarcasm to 'get' his humour though. Hermione saw it, where Harry and Ron were clueless.

So, in canon at least, he is acknowledged as having a mean sense of humour. I'm of the opinion that he has sharp wit and a very dry sense of humour, also a cutting one. Sometimes a bit too sharp, especially where young children are concerned who don't usually 'get' that kind of humour and feel intimidated by it. In my opinion, Severus uses his humour as a weapon, as a shield towards those who constantly try to use him. He's doing what Dumbledore wants, but he's not shy to be sarcastic around Dumbledore either, as an adult. His humour is understood, and shared, by his colleagues when they have a common antagonist, like dear Gilderoy. Bellatrix is no match for him and his wit, she looks stupid compared to him, so do most other Death Eaters. Severus, as far as I can see, never uses his humour when dealing with Voldemort directly though. That shows he's not stupid.

So, what do you think?

Tell us what you think about his humour, how this affects his interaction with other people and how he reacts when he is the butt of the jokes.

Write meta or creative fiction and post or link it here.

Or paint a funny picture with and about Severus and humour and enter it as a SNARC entry.

This is the last SNARC challenge for the time being.

And: Try to avoid the wank and don't let yourself be provoked by trolls. As a reminder for anonymous posters: sign your posts with a handle if you want to keep posting here.

When I promise banners, I deliver banners. But I'm so horribly late, I can only beg you to forgive me! ~Weeps~

Here are the banners for the April Challenge 2009: Severus as a Squib. It's still March, it's not a whole year, nope.
I'm so sorry. The Severus Big Bang was great, but it ate up all my energy.

As usual, if I overlooked your entry, this isn't because I don't like you, it's because I'm scatterbrained. Remind me and you get your banner. Here are the ones I found:

( banners under the cut )

Better late than never:


We've been discussing the post war years and the WW in September 08 already, but this time, I'd like you to focus on Severus' psychology.

He survived Nagini's attack, what now?

- Does he even want to live or does he resent being rescued?
- Does he feel guilt? If so, how does he deal with it?
- Did he ever learn to accept, to love himself? We see that he developed some sense of altruism over the years, whether JKR wants to admit it or not, does that include himself? Can he love himself/others (apart from Lily)?
- Does he expect anything? Praise? Thanks?
- Is he proud of what he's done? Humble? Numb?

I'm sure you can come up with more questions. Again, we've been discussing what he is likely to do and how the WW would react to him already in the past (but there's no reason not to discuss these aspects again). I want to know how he feels, and how he will manage to live with himself.

A reminder, again: the option to agree to disagree exists. Less aggression, more conversation, please. Just because you're passionate about your argument doesn't mean that it is flawless and that everyone else has to agree. Those who shout loudest aren't right, just loud. Same for those who have the last word.

Marc Chagall must have been a wizard. And he knew people who could fly. Look at this and others of his famous paintings.

What I want you to do is what we did when this SNARC contest started: look at this picture and put Snape in it.

Traditionally, you can use ArtPad but any other media is fine, too. We even accept photomanips now!

The winners will be determined by number of comments (other than by the artist ;) ) to each entry. The prize would be a banner made by me unless someone more talented offers to do prize banners for SNARC?

For future challenges: If you would like to host one, or would like to offer a prize for one, contact me.

As usual, please make a new post with your entry, or post it in a comment here, if you don't have a ij account.

Onwards!

This topic was suggested by mary_j_59. She writes:

What convinces so many people that Snape is a bully by nature, and abusive? And why do people like me - who can see that he actually does bully, and is even abusive on a couple of occasions - insist that, nevertheless, Severus is far more victim than perpetrator, and is neither habitually abusive, nor an habitual bully?

That seems to be the real gulf between the Snape lovers and the Snape haters, and it's a sore point.

And it actually goes along with Snape as a father. I'm sure that those who see Snape as bully would insist that Snape would be an abusive father, whereas I and others see him as struggling to break the chain of abuse -and succeeding. Again, Rowling would like us to see Harry this way, but she never shows us Harry holding back, being sorry, reconsidering his actions - all of which she actually does show us in Severus. So I can't buy the "happy family/Harry as good father" picture she tries to sell us in the epilogue. I can, on the other hand, see Snape as a good father, perhaps most of all because he does have a conscience (however rudimentary - this sets him apart from just about everyone in the Wizarding World) and is not afraid to discipline the children in his care.

I would like to extend this topic to other fathers in the wizarding world. How about James? We know he was a bully, we are being told he was a good father. How do you see it?

How about Remus Lupin who ran away from his responsibility but later totally fell in love with his son?

And Arthur Weasley who is presented as the model father? Some call him hen-pecked, some Molly's eightst child. He certainly seems like the anti-bully. What do you think?

How about Lucius Malfoy? Would Sirius have been a good father or would he have lost interest when the child didn't turn out the way he wanted? Can you think of others? Go for it. As usual, you don't need to stop writing and discussing this as the month ends. You can always write about old challenges.