Snape: A Definitive Reading
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Read between May 10, 2017 - February 19, 2018
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But underneath his scathing surface is someone who cares desperately, enough to devote his adult life to protecting everyone in his world, even those whom he dislikes. And he does this all undercover, pretending to be evil, accepting that he will live and die without the chance to defend himself and clear his name.
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When he is brave, he is almost beautiful.
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Mirror of Erised,
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seven bottles, that magic number,
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Finite Incantatem,
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something about Draco’s comment overrides Snape’s usual eagerness to take Draco’s side against Gryffindors, the only instance such a thing happens in the series.
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There’s a mystery afoot. The game is on.
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But once we release Dark Magic into the world, in the moments when we “really want to cause pain,” it is beyond our control. (HP/OotP, 810)
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Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. (HP/HBP, 558)
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Not only does Snape call himself the Half-Blood “Prince,” but in The Prince, Machiavelli praises a “ferocious,” “shrewd” emperor named Severus who killed a rival named Albinus (Machiavelli, 67). Rowling’s combination of the name “Severus,” with its implications of severity and severing, with “Snape,” which sounds like snipe or snip, creates a brilliantly unpleasant picture of a character who will be ferocious and shrewd about snipping the thread of another prince’s lifespan.
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But just like prophecies, magical bequests don’t have to be transmitted within enchanted orbs. They are just words, after all, words that can be spoken to a person who then becomes their keeper.
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they belong to those who
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seek them not for gain, but to protect others.
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