The Man Who Overcame the Odds

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I think what makes Professor Snape so interesting is the subtle humor that JK Rowling has with him. In the quote above, Snape is seen as stern, but it was written in a way that just makes you smile. Poor Snape has never really been given a break throughout his life, so his ways seem to be rude, mean, and down right nasty, but one has to admit that he does everything with a lot of emotion and completes things that he starts. When you look at Severus, he is a man who has many layers, and in this entry we are going to look at his emotional side.

Severus Snape always seems to be the guy in the background, he is there for everything, is involved, but not always directly. We see him through Harry’s eyes, and Snape isn’t the nicest to him throughout the series so we see mostly bad before any good. I wonder at what point in the series that he became more than just another professor of Harry’s?

always go back to PS/SS when I think about Snape, which side he was on, and who he is as a person. We are almost trained to dislike him from the start. One of the first things that we learn about Harry is that he has a scar on his forehead that he got in the attack, and Snape was the first person associated with pain from that scar. I realize that Snape was talking to Quirrell who in turn had Voldemort in the back of his head, we still had to associate Severus Snape with pain of the main character in the series.

Snape had a lot to overcome within the series even though he turned out not to be the bad guy in PS/SS. This was enough for me, but for the majority of readers out there it wasn’t.

Do you think he was able to overcome his image and be the “good guy” in the end? Did it help that Harry named one of his sons after him?

Would you have trusted Snape after all of this?

What was the first time you thought Snape was a “bad person?”

Bonus question: Name the book, chapter, and page number to the quote above.