But Regulus didn’t do anything to actually help win the war. And he joined the Death Eaters too, and looking at his family, he probably threw the Mudblood slur around all the time. Severus, while remaining a complete asshole, turned his life around and gave his life to fight Voldemort in possibly the most dangerous position as spy. He IS the Slytherin hero! At some point, these posts are disregard of factual canon. (And Snape isn’t responsible for Sirius’ death, jfc.)

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“But Regulus didn’t do anything to actually help win the war.” Maybe not, but it is his intention that matters here. How was he to know that the locket would remain intact for decades after his death? How was he to know that Dumbledore and Harry would come looking for the locket? He couldn’t know any of that! All he knew was that Voldemort had made a Horcrux, and that it needed to be destroyed. He knew someone needed to step up and take action and that is what he did. I don’t think we should disregard his sacrifice simply because it didn’t help in the long run.

“And he joined the Death Eaters too, and looking at his family, he probably threw the Mudblood slur around all the time.” Yes, but he changed his mind. Why does everyone always seem to ignore that fact? People changed! People grow! I don’t think we should hold Regulus’ past against him when in the end he did the most heroic thing possible. And he was only able to do it because he had been a Death Eater. (He would never have even found out about the locket if he hadn’t been close to Voldemort)

“Severus, while remaining a complete asshole, turned his life around and gave his life to fight Voldemort in possibly the most dangerous position as spy.” While I don’t disagree with any of this, I have to point out that the only reason Snape “turned his life around and gave his life to fight Voldemort” was because Voldemort killed Lily and not because he realized, like Regulus did, that Voldemort was going too far and needed to be stopped. Do you think he would have changed sides if Voldemort had thought that Neville was the one the prophecy spoke about? Would he have cared so much if Alice Longbottom had died instead of Lily Potter? Nope. He only changed sides because the woman he loved was targeted and not because it was the right thing to do. In fact, it was quite clear that he still loved the Dark Arts. IMO his whole view point about blood superiority doesn’t seem to have changed at all. He wasn’t fighting Voldemort to stop him. He was fighting Voldemort to avenge Lily’s death.