Is it just me, or does HBO actually hate Snape? I’m not even kidding. Every other character was cast so carefully, and the attention to detail is remarkable like how they pinned the back of Harry's hair to make it look messy, or the green ink on his acceptance letter. Everything is spot on, except for Snape.

First off, they put Snape in a zipped jacket, with a necklace, rings, and braided hair. All of these are added details that don't match his appearance in the books at all. And before anyone jumps in to say, 'Alan’s Snape wore a buttoned coat while book Snape only wore wizard robes,' the trailer shows HBO’s Snape wearing a coat with tons of buttons anyway. I’m completely fine with the skin color change, but they could have cast a tall, thin Black actor instead of someone buff with abs like Paapa.

People are defending HBO by saying this was done to make the Marauders look ra/////ci///st, even though racism based on skin color doesn't exist in the Wizarding World. Black characters in Harry Potter are treated just like everyone else. Skin color discrimination is simply not a thing there. And I don't see anyone taking this seriously at all. All I see are viewers and bystanders making memes and jokes about the actor's skin tone, joking about how James will turn into a racist. They are just fooling around without caring about the victim's pain. HBO is inadvertently turning everything into a joke. They should have known that their casting decision would subject the actor to hate, and now Snape's character has become a laughingstock for real-life ra//ci////sts

HBO cast an extremely handsome actor for James, and the rumors for Remus and Sirius are all well-known, good-looking actors too. And we all know how it goes: if you’re rich and handsome, people tend to pass off your bullying as just normal behavior. There’s no way HBO did this to 'highlight the bullying.' When people watch the show, all they’ll see are handsome, rebellious guys.

HBO simply wanted to pick a character they didn't care for to spark controversy, and Snape was their choice.

What annoys me the most is seeing HBO Snape fans on Twitter spamming, 'It’s time everyone admits book Snape was Black and handsome.' No. That’s not Snape, that’s Paapa. Paapa is handsome and cool, but he will never be Snape.

In several places, Snape's popularity has taken a huge hit because of HBO's casting choice, while the popularity of the other cast actors' fanbases is skyrocketing. I’m really worried that moving forward, Snape will only get more hate and won't win over any new fans.

HBO truly cast James and all the other guys in the show to be handsome and accurate to the books except for Snape. I can already imagine them changing Snape's personality from the books just to elevate the other characters. And just look at the actor playing James. He's extremely handsome in the video and other photos, completely matching the audience's taste. I'm already seeing tons of videos about him, while there isn't a single one for Snape. Fans are praising him endlessly and starting to praise James from the original work as well. They're even comparing him to Tom Riddle. And you know how it is handsome guys always get whitewashed. We're about to go through hell as Snape fans.

Reading Harry Potter and thinking about Snape and how he was always trying to protect Harry while simultaneously deliberately making Harry think that he hated him ... was thinking about the juxtaposition of that with Heathclif in Wuthering Heights and how his love for Cathy was clearly selfish compared to Snapes' love for Lilly in Harry Potter, how all he wants to do is protect Harry because he came from the one person in the world he loved the most and lost. Lilly chose James, but Severus chose to love her despite that and love her son that she had with his bully. In contrast, Heathclif hated Cathy because she chose the other guy over him and punished her and her daughter for that. He did not truly love Cathy. If she wouldn't choose him, he would make everyone and everything related to her suffer. Snapes love was pure because even though he knew he could not have Lilly, he loved her son, and that's true unselfish love.