HP RANT WARNING:
I get so frustrated seeing Severus Snape hate. "He could've handled it kindly to de-escalate the situation". I'm sorry but who the PHUCK IS NICE TO THEIR BULLIES. I KNOW I WOULDN'T BE. "He made a spell that slices people" YA AND HE NEVER USED IT. Literally the one bad thing he ever did was call Lily a mudblood which he spent the rest of his life while she was alive trying not only to apologize for, but to make up for, by being a double spy on VOLDEMORT which could've gotten him tortured and killed, to keep her AND JAMES safe! James bullied Snape because not only was he a Slytherin but he was a male friend of Lily's which he viewed as threat. And Sirius being a friend to James followed along. They made his life a living hell all because he was friends with Lily and he was in the "evil house". That's just.. Horrid. Imagine being bullied by someone because you're friends with their crush and you're an ethnicity that they don't like. I get ethnicity is different than a Hogwarts house, but I mean in the fact that they didn't choose their house. They didn't ask to be looked at as bad or evil people. Like how people look at certain races and think "terrorist" or "rapist" or "gangster". Additionally, I know what it's like to be bullied. For many different reasons. And I applaud Severus for never using Sectumsempra because I know if I could've I would've used that spell at some point in my bullied years. Severus didn't deserve what happened to him. That's just my opinion.