Critical Magic Theory: An Analytical Harry Potter Podcast

The Ends, the Means, and the Man: The Ethics of Severus Snape


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In this final chapter of The Severus Snape Trilogy, Professor Julian Wamble takes listeners back into the moral heart of the Harry Potter universe to ask: was Severus Snape a hero, a villain, or something in between? What does true redemption require—and can it exist without accountability?
 
Drawing on hundreds of listener responses, Julian unpacks how perspective shapes our sense of good and evil, and why the Wizarding World so often confuses effectiveness with goodness. From the tension between ends and means to the uneasy divide between creator and creation, this episode challenges our need for clean-cut heroes and clear-eyed villains.
 
As Julian reminds us, the story of Snape—and the stories we tell about him—reveal that morality isn’t fixed, it’s interpreted. And in both magic and the modern world, the truth lives in the gray between.
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