This is amazing.

"Harry couldn't have wrote this!"

"Why?"

"It's legible."

Gold.

I never get why the Marauders get the 'unrepentant bully' label. I've talked about the whole 'prelude to war' bit in my last review, but also consider this: all evidence comes directly from Snape, the literal embodiment of irrational bias. He was friends with the worst future Death Eaters. And a Pensieve is used specifically to organize your memories, and presumably, help keep them from being subconsiously edited. Which happens in real life, by the way, and is likely why they aren't used as evidence.

But I digress. I never understand why everyone is so calm about brutal, lethal, or underhanded measures when fighting the war Harry is in... but when the Marauders do something far milder and less permanent, likely a childish way of trying to discourage people from following that crowd, they're considered to be the worst scum.

Why is Hermione not derided for setting fire to Snape? Because she thought she was defending Harry from a dark wizard. What, exactly, is the difference, other than that the Marauders were four instead of one?

(Yes, the Marauders had flaws. James had an ego, Sirius had a hot temper, Remus never spoke against anything, and Pettigrew just liked them because they had power. But I'm annoyed at how everyone believes Snape, the man who delayed his message to the Order when Harry went into a trap at the Ministry, just to hedge his bets and see who really was the winning side. (Don't tell me those thestrals are faster than a floo call.) Everyone calls McGonagall blind to the seriousness of the Marauders' pranks because she wants to think well of a dead comrade. Well how about applying it in reverse, to Snape, who insists on punishing Harry in revenge that he refuses to let go long after he's already killed the perpetrator? (Yeah, Snape did a lot worse to James than Sirius ever did to him. And tried to inflict a fate worse than death (the Dementors) on Sirius, too.)

I do like this. I just want to point out a few possible counterpoints that I haven't heard people talk about.

While I don't think Sirius was right... I understand. Him and the other Marauders. At the time they went to school? Guess who was there? The other Death Eaters. Lily stopped liking Snape not because she fell in love with his enemy. No, it was because he was hanging around people who practiced disgusting things. She gave him a chance... then he spat on it in that famous scene.

Yes, the Marauders were super harsh in their 'pranks'. But they were not going up against innocents.

Only Sirius stepped over the line to kill someone, and that was likely in response to protecting his friend without thinking, because Snape absolutely would be that nosy.

Malfoy was. He did it with Norbert, multiple times, and under Umbridge.

I'm not saying Sirius was right, but the Marauders were not playing schoolboy pranks, even if they called them that. It was the prelude to war. Only Sirius came from a dark family, which probably eroded his inhibitions to do something like killing or permanent maiming.

(He probably thought it might not have killed Snape, just turned him into a werewolf. Because that's the big thing everyone seems to think of first with a werewolf attack. And he didn't think long enough to realize it would hurt Remus more.)

hah! I'm so glad someone recommended one of your one-shots in a Discord I'm in today. I've been thoroughly enjoying a number of your other HP one-shots and am looking forward to more of this fic, too.

A better punishment than “sneak” would be targeted Obliviation, applied directly by the magical contract. Not only would it be a more fitting punishment for willful betrayal, it would also prevent the attempt at betrayal from succeeding. Given how Obliviation is considered essential to their world’s survival, I’d expect a basic version of the curse to be taught to ALL students, in case of emergencies.

The enslavement of Africans in America was an extreme example of slavery, but assuming it’s the only example in human history is stupid, at best. The current model for lifelong minimum wage lower class workers is a 95 percent match to the enslavement of the Hebrews in the Bible, for example. Would Hermione consider every retail worker she has ever seen in every shop in her life to be a slave? Would she feel an obsessive need to get them all fired - AKA free them - from their enslavement? Because those retail workers are also a 95 percent match to house elf enslavement.

Another valid argument is that the Ministry-approved OWL and NEWT tests include practical testing, not just theoretical - if students aren’t taught at least enough practical spellcasting to pass the Ministry-mandated testing, then either the tests need to be changed to be theory-only, or it’s going to reflect very poorly on the theory-only teacher(s).

I really love that last line.

Не вижу ничего плохого в том, чтобы скормить Снивеллуса оборотню.
Автор, ты педераст, педофил и трахаешь свою дочь, маму, отца и маму твоей жены.
Выеби себя своим черным дилдо за то, что Снейп в этом фанфике - хороший парень.
Желаю тебе заболеть спидом и заразить твою дочь этой болезнью в тот момент, когда ты будешь в нее кончать.
Ты жалкий педераст.
УБей себя об стену.
Снейп должен умирать, страдать и мучиться.

I'm not British but I do have British cousins and the royal family amount them Headmasters and Headmistresses do not have the level of power they show in the Books and movies. Albus can be brought up in charges of nit reporting abuse as required by law plus he can also be brought up as an accessory to abuse and neglect and child endangerment.

In Dumbledore’s defense, he was Harry’s legal magical guardian until Sirius was released, so he did have a big say on the personal stuff.

As for umbridge torturing children, Dumbledore didn’t know about that. Nobody went out and told one of the teachers, Harry was a forking idiot and for some reason hid it. None of the teachers knew about it

Many people hate Marietta for what she did to Luna .. an almost universally Beloved character...

stun him, chunk him through the veil of death .. problem solved

This fic is great so far.

I would have loved to read that story. LOL.