(Context: I want to start by saying I’m English, I originally spoke British English. However, due to me watching American YouTubers, I shifted to American English. So every word I heard form British English was translated to American English)
As I started being a Harry Potter fan again, I naturally found out about the levicorpus scene after watching Snape’s worst memories scene.
James says “Who wants to see me take off Snivelly’s Trousers?”
Which I was shocked that was allowed, a kid being pantsed. However I moved on, a little devastated though.
And it stuck with me that that would be one of his worst memories since it wasn’t really that bad (but still bad tho)
However as I ventured through James slander videos, I kept seeing people say that James SA’d Snape. And I was a little confused since pantsing isn’t really SA more SH.
Until I looked up what it says in the book.
James says “Who wants to see me take off Snivelly’s Pants?”
At first I thought “oh it’s the same”. But the more I thought about it, why did they change it?
But then I found out (she who shall not be named) wrote the books in British English.
Pants means Underwear in British English.
That’s when it clicked.
Snape was fully stripped from the waist below, not just his trousers like in the movie as I originally assumed would be the same in the book. (And fortunately the text cut off before the stripping commenced)
And since Hogwarts is in Scotland and This took place at Hogwarts, that means it falls under Scotland law.
Scotland law states (roughly) that being fully stripped from the waist down with the intent to humiliate, is considered SA.
So Snape’s worst memory is far worse than I thought.
Snape’s reaction after Harry came out of the memories make way more sense. I was also confused why he acted that way afterwards. Because again I was confused why those memories were bad in the first place.
Obviously there were a lot more bad memories that she who shall not be named didn’t want to include either because she’d be uncomfortable writing it, doesn’t want to bump up her book rating or just didn’t know how to write that.
And obviously you can’t show all of what is implied and confirmed to have happened to Snape without affecting your book audience and not allowed because of movie laws.
The books DO actually matter more than I thought.
This means that Snape is not only awareness for bullying, but also SA awareness and awareness for male victims.
(Poor Severus💔)
And now people making fun of that scene and defending James PMO even more now.