Hero (Severus Snape)

Title: Hero
Artist: Nickelback
Ship: slight Sev/Lily
Footage: Harry Potter, Spiderman
Summary: A tribute on the life of Severus Snape

Four vids in two weeks! WOOT!

Companion Drabble (written by yours truly):

And they say that a hero can save us.

They call him 'the Chosen One'. But you can only watch him as he struggles to make simple potions and to learn the magic that you had mastered years before. He would be the one to vanquish the Dark Lord, everyone claims, everyone believes, and yet he cannot even master Occulmency, the only thing that has save you so many times, or nonverbal spells. They call him a hero, and yet you do not see how he could possible save himself from his villain, let alone the wizarding world.

I'm not weak!* he yells at you.

Then prove it!* you hiss back.

It is all you want. For him to prove it. For him to be the boy that the wizarding world thought he was, and not the boy you know will fail.

They say a hero will save us; you're not going to sit there in wait.

For you do not believe in heroes. They do not exist. And you know Potter cannot save us; you do not know what can.

Dumbledore claimed it was 'love', the protection that Lily had given to her son, that had allowed Potter to live when she had died. It was 'love' that would save us all. But you cannot believe, for you have loved. Love hasn't brought you victory; it has brought you nothing but pain. Your love will never do, not for her, for it was not the love of a hero (heroes don't exist) nor love of anyone worthy.

Love would not save us, because love hasn't saved you. How could it save anyone else?

You are sure, that if there is a way to end this war, it will be through blood and pain and death. Mostly death. Lots of death. And you are right.

But still you fight. You protect Potter; you spy; you play your part with perfect efficiency, but without hope that it will do any good. You do not believe in heroes, but you hope, for the sake of the wizarding world, for the sake of all you have done, for the sake of Lily, that Potter will save us, even if you know it to be a fool's hope.

You do not live to see that it is not. A hero has save us. Many heroes, not just Potter.

In the end, you should know that you have been wrong. For love has saved us. Your love for Lily that led you to protect the Chosen One. Your love, the love you feared would never be enough, has saved the one who saved so many others. And in that, in your bravery and your sacrifice, you have become what you never believe existed.

A hero.

So rest in peace, my hero. Fly on the wings of the eagles, to the rest you deserve.

We will watch as you fly away.


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• severus
• snape
• harry
• potter
• lily
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• ss/le
• severus/lily
• snape/lily

[DrocellLover]

SNAPE SHOULD HAVE BEEN WITH LILY!!!! HE'S MORE DESERVING OF HER!!!!

[sciencefreak2500]

Snape died a death he didn't deserve. It should be mentioned that he came from a farily disadvantaged background in contrast to James. Despite that, Snape did the right thing getting no recognition whatsoever for it. James had a loving family by the sounds of it and still couldn't be a nice guy (at 17 when he should have known better he was still being a jerk to Snape)

I don't know what either of them saw in Lily but Snape deserved love, just because of what he did for Harry. 

[poteetang]

@AlphaShotZ Maybe he wasn't as evil as people thought, The dimmist light can still shine in the darkest of night's. A truly evil person doesn't let go of his evil ambition's not for nothing, not even love.

[AlphaShotZ]

As much as I like what Snape did for Harry - lets be honest - he did it for Lily. If Harry had no relation to Lily, he couldn't care less about Harry, he would have protected Lily's child, whoever it was, because he betrayed her and wanted to repay her - its nothing to do with Harry.

[Andizzle101]

Question. Do you think Snape felt attracted to Harry in some way because of Lily's eyes? In the first movie, the way he looks at him and the last movie when he says Look at me..You have your mother's eyes, also in his memories, Dumbledore says He has her eyes, Severus and then Snape looked up really fast. I think Snarry existed one way or another.

[AddictedxToxLIFE]

@BlueFlowwer I never said that, and you are twisting my words around. Lily didn't like that he called others mudblood, but she still stayed his friend.It was when he called her mudblood, she became angry. Look, I'm done arguing. If you don't like Sevvy thatmuch, fine but keep me out of it because he's a hero in my eyes.

[BlueFlowwer]

@AddictedxToxLIFE So Lily should just give her forgivness

everytime then? Continue to excuse his behaviour?

[psmt1234]

snape was a man in extrodaniary events and did what he had to do to get his ass out alive

that said snape always took the hard road inorder to protect the boy that lived i wouldn't wish what he went throught on any one

[AddictedxToxLIFE]

@BlueFlowwer No, he never did show any remorse to calling others mudblood, but Severus is Severus. I guess he wouldn't be who he is without his opinions, or his past mistakes. But either way, I guess you won't change your opinion, but I won't change mine either. I think Sevvy is the best, (of course he's only ONE of my favorites, i don't have a top fav) and you don;t.

[BlueFlowwer]

@AddictedxToxLIFE So that he could continue his bigoted

ways and call other muggleborns "mudblood"? He showed

no indication of straying from the DE patch. He was just

sorry that he called HER a mudblood, not his action towards

other muggleborns or the path that he chose.

[AddictedxToxLIFE]

@BlueFlowwer Eh I guess that's how u see it but many see him as a hero. I've been on his side since the beginning, and I think it was more when he called her Mudblood that destroyed their friendship. But then, I think Lily should have forgiven him when he apologized to her.

[BlueFlowwer]

@AddictedxToxLIFE He does deserves an honour. But I don't think

that he was a good man and his bigoted ways and attraction

towards the dark arts destroyed his friendship with Lily.