If you are creeped out, you are probably taking it out of context.
Sure, if you describe it as “he molested a minor and made her forget about it”, it sounds quite creepy. But if you think of it as a lonely, inexperienced and deeply troubled boy thanking a girl fawning over him for her help in a tricky situation the best way he can, then maybe you will see that the difference in physical age does not automatically translate in this case into any kind of a power difference.
Who here is a little creeped out by Snape agreeing to kiss her in the latest chapter?
Not even remotely. It’s a shame they couldn’t do more.
There is a good reason to have laws that prohibit this kind of liaison—the potential for abuse is enormous. But this isn’t a case that the rules are necessary for.
Yes. She is in 7th year which makes her probably 18 years old. That makes it less creepy, but being in 7th year also means that Snape is still being abusive towards her and her class mates. There is no amount of context that can remove the creep from a middle age teacher kissing a student he as been abusing for the last 7 years.
I was a little creeped, but more because she would be forgetting it rather than because of consent issues. She was the one asking him, after all. And as a character moment, it was huge—his first kiss! The rope of his love for Lily is shredding all the more! Will anything keep him as an agent of the Light?
Who here is a little creeped out by Snape agreeing to kiss her in the latest chapter?
If you are creeped out, you are probably taking it out of context.
Sure, if you describe it as “he molested a minor and made her forget about it”, it sounds quite creepy. But if you think of it as a lonely, inexperienced and deeply troubled boy thanking a girl fawning over him for her help in a tricky situation the best way he can, then maybe you will see that the difference in physical age does not automatically translate in this case into any kind of a power difference.
Not even remotely. It’s a shame they couldn’t do more.
There is a good reason to have laws that prohibit this kind of liaison—the potential for abuse is enormous. But this isn’t a case that the rules are necessary for.
not me. there was consent and the capacity for consent, so the kiss was wistful at worst.
Yes. She is in 7th year which makes her probably 18 years old. That makes it less creepy, but being in 7th year also means that Snape is still being abusive towards her and her class mates. There is no amount of context that can remove the creep from a middle age teacher kissing a student he as been abusing for the last 7 years.
She’s in Slytherin. I think Snape doesn’t significantly abuse Slytherin students.
I was a little creeped, but more because she would be forgetting it rather than because of consent issues. She was the one asking him, after all. And as a character moment, it was huge—his first kiss! The rope of his love for Lily is shredding all the more! Will anything keep him as an agent of the Light?