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magiclovingdragon · 4 years

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You know what I think I liked the most about The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes? The fact that Suzanne Collins made Coriolanus Snow almost a mirror image to Severus Snape.

Hear me out here... both suffered as kids (Snape with bad home life and bullying at school/Snow with growing up in war and poverty)

but while they did suffer, it was not all as their pov makes it seem (Snape retaliated against the Marauders & likely bullied other kids with the death eaters he hung around with too/Snow still seeing himself as superior to others and still living in somewhat luxury with big meals at a fancy school and a high class apartment).

Obviously both “fell in love” with a girl which contributes to their main story arc (Snape & Lily/Snow & Lucy Gray) and contributed to their endings (Snape told Voldemort the prophecy, Voldemort went after Harry and Lily died/Snow turned on Lucy when she abandoned him and he tried and possibly was successful in killing her)

Both performed well in school and had their own high society cliques (Snape had the pureblood future death eaters/Snow had the other mentor kids)

Both make other characters suffer needlessly (Snape bullies his students and is horrid to every other adult character too/Snow turned in Sejanus, tries to kill Lucy Gray, kills his headteacher, participates and “improves” the Games and everything else in the main trilogy)

Both have done a few good things (Snape spying for TOotP/Snow improving the conditions for the tributes both present and future and helping Sejanus and the Covey kids)

With ulterior motives (Snape was “making up” for all the bad he had done by joining with Voldemort in the first place and telling Voldemort about the prophecy with Harry/Snow was being opportunistic trying to regain his families past lifestyle and looking out for his own future power and influence)

BUT despite using the same tropes, JKR used it as a means to show Snape as a “Grey character/anti hero” (debatable but not getting into that). Whereas Collins used it to double down on the fact that Snow is an irredeemable peice of shit.

You could almost argue that they have similar endings (Snape dying at the hands of Voldemort after helping Harry/Snow dying after telling Katniss that Coin is going to be just as bad as he is, giving Katniss the chance to stop and kill her) but I dont see anyone arguing that Snow is now a “grey character” or redeemable.

And there is also the points made that Snow was bullied by a teacher who hated his father and then Snow killed him, compared to Snape bullying Harry out of hatred for his father and then having Harry name his kid after him...

Like while reading TBoSaS I had the thought that reading Snow’s POV was similar to reading Snape’s The Prince’s Tale and how it could be very similar if a book/series was done about Snape and the Marauders era

#i am not tagging this with any potter tags because I am NOT having the snape defenders come after me #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coriolanus snow #hunger games

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