principeseverus:

This my opinion.

The reason why ‘Always’ became iconic is because it’s pretty much the equivalent of -giving it all for love-. Basically, romanticism at it’s finest. And it creates more of an impact than ‘Until the very end’ because Snape was framed as being mean,cold, and incapable of feeling such an intense emotion as love. Meanwhile with James, Lily, Sirius, & Lupin we were told and shown that they did feel love & cared a lot for Harry so it’s not a twist or an interesting revelation. To me, ‘Until the very end’ is like the perfect love and ‘Always’ is a flawed love. And people can identify more with a flawed love coming from a flawed character than a perfect love especially when the perfect love comes from Harry’s “perfect” parents & parental figures that Harry doesn’t exactly see as flawed. ‘Always’ had an impact because it showed us a side of character nobody expected & I’m glad that it’s Snape’s legacy. He was complicated, complex, a man who was able to feel love despite all odds, & ‘Always’ ties that up in a nice goth bow.