Yik Yak is mostly filled with students complaining about their lives, discussions on race, gender, and politics, and students often trying to get laid. Most of the posts on Yak are just to gratify students in the belief that they can say anything anonymously and not fear retribution, sometimes. Often, these conversations have me fearing for the future of humankind, of my country, and just having me to turn off my phone so I don't give in to the overwhelming anger and frustration of throwing it across the room in anger. However, occasionally there are some Yaks that have that extra spark, that spell, that just compels me to continue arguing and checking my phone to see what others are saying.

Lat week I woke up to this Yak, my friends. And I got so angry at the people who replied that I decided to write about it.

For those of you who refuse to get into the Harry Potter fandom, Severus Snape is one of the professors Harry Potter clashes with in every single book and movie.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

Severus Snape is probably the second most hated professor in the Harry Potter series (Umbridge, I never forget). Snape is Head of Slytherin, meaning he is sort of an advisor Slytherin House, one of the four houses you can be sorted into when arriving at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He ridicules his students and is often their greatest fear (Neville's boggart, a magical creature that takes the form of a person's deepest fear, was Snape). Snape abuses his power as a professor and Head of House to make his class a living hell for most students that aren't part of Slytherin. In the last book of the series his backstory is revealed. Friend-zoned by Lily, Harry's mother, and bullied by the Marauders, a group of teens in which Harry's father and beloved godfather were part of, Snape becomes the right-hand man to Voldemort and takes part in the Death Eaters, a terrorist group that believed only pure-blood magic practitioners should, well, practice magic. He later attempts to save Lily's life by becoming a double agent to Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix, an organization that combatted the Death Eaters.

Because Snape's eternal love for Lily made him a spy, many people believe that Snape was able to redeem himself and is a hero. They believe that all of the horrible acts Snape committed against his students after Lily's death were forgiven because he attempted to save Lily, and ultimately Harry.

I call bullshit. And here's why:

1. As I mentioned before, Snape was a horrible teacher. He used his authority to favor some students (Slytherins) and penalized others for no warranted reason. He deducted points from Hermione for helping Neville and Harry for taking a book outside of the castle. Petty excuses just to put them down. He called his students idiots, made fun of them, and made no attempt to help students who were struggling with his class. We cannot ignore that he literally abused his power as a teacher to destroy his students' self-worth.

2. Snape's attempt to save young Harry was not because of losing a child's life in war. No, he didn't care about Lily's newborn. All he cared about was Lily's life. He warned Dumbledore of the attack by Voldemort because he believed Dumbledore would be the only salvation. When Snape learns of Lily and James Potter's death he shows no concern for Harry, a child who just became an orphan. He mourns Lily's death and that's about it.

3. Snape would not have double-crossed Voldemort in the first war if Neville was The Chosen One instead of Harry. If Neville were the Chosen One, then Snape would have continued to be in a supremacist group that killed and targeted people who were seen as inferior.

4. Now for those of you who say that Snape's childhood made him the bad guy that he was portrayed as, let me tell you this: Just because you are bullied does not mean that you should be a pure-blood supremacist and murder people. I'm not condoning bullying, it is a serious issue in schools and we must think of it accordingly. But not every child that was bullied goes on a rampage and hurt everyone they think is inferior to them. Look at Neville, who was bullied by Snape and his peers and was essential component in winning the Second Wizarding War.

Now, I'm not saying Snape was a bad character. He is a gray character, who's morals are shady at best and can't be a definite good or bad guy. He's the type of character that you hope learned his lesson at the end of the series, and he did. He does do some good things (guard the Sorcerer's Stone, mentored Draco when he desperately needed it, and ultimately makes sure that Harry doesn't die without accomplishing his destiny) all because he is indebted to Dumbledore, but he payed for his sins with his death.

Snape is no hero. He fell in love with a girl that didn't reciprocate his feelings and became one of the most important members of a supremacy group. He died trying to pay his debts to a man he believed would be able to save the Lily, not just her son. Snape is, however, a man blinded so mcuh by love that his big actions in the Second Wizarding War were a failed attempt to reflect what his beloved, not him, believed in: peace in the magic world.