In the meantime, the little wizard with the lightning scar on his forehead, grew carefree well, considering his aunt, uncle, and Dudley Dursley not so much… not knowing what awaited him in the future. Coming at Hogwarts at the age of 11, the sorting hat let him become a member of the Gryffindor, one of the four houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry slowly stood out as one of the most gifted students and who, along with a few friends, also acquired a large number of enemies.
The young wizard thought he might even be happy in his new environment until he met Him — The Potions master, Professor Severus Snape. When they first met, it was clear enough, that Harry had acquired his first enemy.
What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? A very interesting thing came from one of the series fans, who tried to reveal what was the meaning of those words.
According to him, this is the explanation:. Snape always knew how to stay calm and collected towards Harry. Well, at least until Harry unlocked his past memories. Professor Snape never missed an opportunity to insult or punish Harry or his colleagues. However, Snape never really built a relationship with Harry, but rather only had his own perception of Harry and a created relationship in the shadows.
Harry finally found out what was going on between Professor Snape and his parents. A woman who stood up for his best friend, when he was being bullied by James Potter, was his mother Lily. Afterward, Snape had the right to choose which part to take and what kind of man he would become.
It is up to you to decide whether he did it because of jealousy, envy, regrets? The catering was reasonably cheap. Snape actually said that he finds the fact that there are two places in the world called Snape, one of which is in North Yorkshire in England, more interesting.
Wow, that is like something Snape would say. He even turned a visit to one of those locations into a photo opp. Strangely enough, Michael Snape won't be the first Snape at Durham University when he begins teaching there this fall. There's also an archaeology student at the university named Lisa Snape-Kennedy. Durham University, looking out for the Snapes of the world. Be sure to follow T-Lounge on Twitter and visit our Facebook page.
The movies don't depict the actors ages correctly. Snape becomes a Death Eater after school around age 18 and his best friend dies 2 years later. He'll have about 10 years of peace before he returns to espionage and dies at age Snape's role during this entire time was extremely sensitive and required master espionage and image-control skills. As he and Dumbledore anticipated that Voldemort would return eventually, and many of Snape's actions would be reported on by Death Eater spies or gained through torture and Legilimency, even if Snape's true mentality and intentions were inaccessible to the Dark Lord, he had to consider every decision and relationship carefully.
He treated Harry Potter with maximal coldness and never missed an opportunity to cause him trouble, as any variation from this would have cast suspicion on him in Voldemort's eyes. Taken from Harry Potter Wikia.
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John 8, 6 6 gold badges 48 48 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Mistu4u Mistu4u He wasn't pretending. People are complicated.
He's a prick, that's not evil. Per say. The real answer is that no matter how wonderful the Harry Potter series is, it's badly written. Full of plot holes, contrivances, and plain bad writing. JK wanted the audience to think Snape was evil, so she had him act evil. Ultimately it makes no sense in the end.
As a narrative device prior to that he filled the role of "the teacher everyone dislikes" to fit the boarding school setting which works awkwardly with the high fantasy elements of Voldermort, Wizarding Wars, and Death Eaters — Stumbler.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Sayan Sayan There's also a point to be made that he sacrifices himself and puts himself at such risk not only for Harry, but to honor Lily's memory and her sacrifice for her son. I concur.
The cause I was stating is the war against the Dark Lord and the point you stated. Snape had parental issues? Looks like I missed that! So what is the story? Mistu4u: Details for that are interspersed across the books. I can't remember much light being shed on it in the movies. Mistu4u if it was in the movies, it was in an Occlumency lesson in Half-Blood Prince, wherein Harry through Pensive or reversed-Legillimency sees some of Snapes memories.
The girl who Snape deeply loved had loved the man whom he hated after suffering years of persecution by him, Snape was torn. Stefan Stefan The situation with Snape and Lilly is slightly more complicated than this answer shows. He and Lilly were good friends up until the point where Snape's friendship with other Slytherins future Death Eaters results in a conversation where he calls Lilly a mudblood, offending her and driving her away. Up until that point, Lilly had defended him against James Potter and his friends.
Afterward, she becomes part of their group, eventually dating and then marrying James.
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