harrypotterconfessions:

If you even watched/read the series like everybody else,
you would know he hated James and loved Lily.
She was the love of his life and I doubt none of
these people know what love is. That is not to say that I do,
but I know true love when I see it. And she was his.
He didn’t want her die, he tried to prevent it.
Harry was none of his concern. He was alive.
Why would he waste his time for grieving on
a child who was birthed by the man he hates?
Also, Harry isn’t dead - so why would he bother when his love is?
He’s fine.
Snape knew he would be fine.

How about wasting his time caring for a crying child whom he had helped to orphan?

Also, if she was the ‘love of his life’, why would he have joined a group dedicated to subjugating people with her heritage? Oh, right. So he could subjugate and own her.

I do get that he’s upset and grieving, and I think most people who are creeped out by the scene do understand that Snape is griefstricken (though if you haven’t read the books, you wouldn’t know that he’s guiltstricken as well) but the point is that the movie version of the Prince’s Tale is trying to make Snape out to be some heroic martyr for love we should feel sorry for when in the books, he set all this suffering up for himself and for Harry and the Maruaders too. In this scene, the suffering of one of the perpetrators of this crime is portrayed as more tragic and dramatic than the suffering of the victims, and that’s why people get creeped out. The pain of Snape, who helped cause this death, is front and centre. The pain of Harry, who was a victim of other people’s choices culminating in this death, is a background event, an afterthought. And over a decade later he’s still attacking the four survivors most hurt by his revelation of the prophecy (Harry, Neville, Sirius and Remus) because it’s easier to do that than to take responsibility for his part in their suffering.

JKR wasn’t kidding when she called Snape a ‘gift of a character’, but she also wasn’t kidding when she called him a ‘deeply horrible person’.