Sirius Snape Quotes

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter; do not even expect him to be surprised by what you tell him. It might have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Severus questioned Draco.

Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it?

Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.

The kitchen door opened and the entire Weasley family, plus Hermione, came inside, all looking very happy, with Mr Weasley walking proudly in their midst dressed in a pair of striped pyjamas covered by a mackintosh. "Cured!" he announced brightly to the kitchen at large. "Completely cured!" He and all the other Weasleys froze on the threshold, gazing at the scene in front of them, which was also suspended in mid-action, both Sirius and Snape looking towards the door with their wands pointing into each other's faces and Harry immobile between them, a hand stretched out to each, trying to force them apart. "Merlin's beard," said Mr Weasley, the smile sliding off his face, "what's going on here?

The great black dog looked up at Dumbledore, then, in an instant, turned back into a man. Mrs. Weasley screamed and leapt back from the bed. “Sirius Black!” she shrieked, pointing at him. “Mum, shut up!” Ron yelled. “It’s okay!” Snape had not yelled or jumped backward, but the look on his face was one of mingled fury and horror.

Sirius pushed his chair roughly aside and strode around the table toward Snape, pulling out his wand as he went; Snape whipped out his own.

Harry scanned the table more carefully. Tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was sitting on a large pile of cushions beside Professor Sprout, the Herbology teacher, whose hat was askew over her flyaway gray hair. She was talking to Professor Sinistra of the Astronomy department. On Professor Sinistra’s other side was the sallow-faced, hook-nosed, greasy-haired Potions master, Snape — Harry’s least favorite person at Hogwarts. Harry’s loathing of Snape was matched only by Snape’s hatred of him, a hatred which had, if possible, intensified last year, when Harry had helped Sirius escape right under Snape’s overlarge nose — Snape and Sirius had been enemies since their own school days.

Been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did . . . lucky for me, I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it told me all I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight.” “Severus —” Lupin began, but Snape overrode him. “I’ve told the headmaster again and again that you’re helping your old friend Black into the castle, Lupin, and here’s the proof. Not even I dreamed you would have the nerve to use this old place as your hideout —” “Severus, you’re making a mistake,” said Lupin urgently. “You haven’t heard everything — I can explain — Sirius is not here to kill Harry —” “Two more for Azkaban tonight,” said Snape, his eyes now gleaming fanatically. “I shall be interested to see how Dumbledore takes this. . . . He was quite convinced you were harmless, you know, Lupin . . . a tame werewolf —” “You fool,” said Lupin softly. “Is a schoolboy grudge worth putting an innocent man back inside Azkaban?” BANG! Thin, snakelike cords burst from the end of Snape’s wand and twisted themselves around Lupin’s mouth, wrists, and ankles; he overbalanced and fell to the floor, unable to move. With a roar of rage, Black started toward Snape, but Snape pointed his wand straight between Black’s eyes. “Give me a reason,” he whispered. “Give me a reason to do it, and I swear I will.” Black stopped dead. It would have been impossible to say which face showed more hatred.

The doorbell rang several times a day, which was the cue for Sirius’s mother to start shrieking again, and for Harry and the others to attempt to eavesdrop on the visitor, though they gleaned very little from the brief glimpses and snatches of conversation they were able to sneak before Mrs Weasley recalled them to their tasks. Snape flitted in and out of the house several times more, though to Harry’s relief they never came face to face; Harry also caught sight of his Transfiguration teacher Professor McGonagall, looking very odd in a Muggle dress and coat, and she also seemed too busy to linger. Sometimes, however, the visitors stayed to help.

Now Snape was head to head with Mundungus in an unfamiliar tavern, Mundungus’s face looking curiously blank, Snape frowning in concentration. “You will suggest to the Order of the Phoenix,” Snape murmured, “that they use decoys. Polyjuice Potion. Identical Potters. It is the only thing that might work. You will forget that I have suggested this. You will present it as your own idea. You understand?” “I understand,” murmured Mundungus, his eyes unfocused… Now Harry was flying alongside Snape on a broomstick through a clear dark night: He was accompanied by other hooded Death Eaters, and ahead were Lupin and a Harry who was really George…A Death Eater moved ahead of Snape and raised his wand, pointing it directly at Lupin’s back-- “Sectumsempra!” shouted Snape. But the spell, intended for the Death Eater’s wand hand, missed and hit George instead-- And next, Snape was kneeling in Sirius’s old bedroom. Tears were dripping from the end of his hooked nose as he read the old letter from Lily. The second page carried only a few words: could ever have been friends with Gellert Grindelwald. I think her mind’s going, personally! Lots of love, Lily Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed, throwing the portion showing James and Harry back onto the floor, under the chest of drawers…

I want to do it properly,” were the first words of which Harry was fully conscious of speaking. “Not by magic. Have you got a spade?” And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes. He dug with a kind of fury, relishing the manual work, glorying in the non-magic of it, for every drop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives. His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. He had learned control at last, learned to shut his mind to Voldemort, the very thing Dumbledore had wanted him to learn from Snape. Just as Voldemort had not been able to possess Harry while Harry was consumed with grief for Sirius, so his thoughts could not penetrate Harry now, while he mourned Dobby. Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out . . . though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. . .

Wrap up Bingo Mágico "La orden del Fénix" -Albus Dumbledore: Clásico que dé una lección o haga una crítica moral.⁣⁣ Persuasión 3/5 Es una linda historia, aunque me aburrió por momentos, te deja la enseñanza, que tenés que tener más confianza en vos qué en lo que te dicen los demás. -Minerva McGongall: Un libro feminista o que le dé visibilidad a la mujer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Orgullo y Prejuicio 5/5⁣⁣ Es una historia clásica de amor, me gusto mucho Elizabeth, lo trascendental de la personalidad de Elizabeth, los cuestionamientos que hace al orden establecido, la rebeldía de una mujer que no quería casarse por comodidad, es muy fuerte y no se calla lo que piensa. Darcy un gran personaje.⁣ ⁣ -Alastor Moody: Un libro catalogado como polémico.⁣⁣ Mujercitas 3/5 Me gustó, pero no es de mis preferidos, fue un libro polémico, porque fue publicado, en una época que no se hablaba del feminismo, creo muchas controversias que a un existen. -Potter & Longbottom: Un libro en que la historia esté marcada por la tragedia.⁣⁣ Máscaras 5/5 Uno de mis libros favoritos, la historia de Fern, Ambrose y Bailey es hermosa, aunque me hace llorar mucho, es un lindo libro para que todos lean. -Sirius Black: Un libro con un protagonista rebelde.⁣⁣ La indomable Sophia 5/5 Me rei mucho con Sophia como se revelaba a las costumbres machistas de su familia, y sobre todo del pobre Charles, que quería domarla, y no lo conseguía. ⁣⁣ -Remus y Tonk: Un romance en el que los protagonistas sean de diferentes culturas (o haya prejuicio sociales de por medio).⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Por siempre felices, Cinder y Ella 5/5 Me gustó mucho la historia de Ella y Brian (Cinder), lo bueno que es Brian para Ella, como la ayuda enfrentándose a todos los idiotas de Hollywood y al padre de Ella, es una buena lectura para que lean -Familia Weasley: Un libro en el que la trama afecte a toda una familia.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Hasta que deje de doler 5/5⁣⁣ Violeta y Vincent, se convirtieron en unas de mis parejas favoritas, los ame a ambos. Me entristeció y enterneció como sufrió toda la familia de Vincent, al verlo tan decido a correr todos los riesgos para terminar con su vida. Violeta un gran personaje.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ -Kingsley Shaklebolt: Un libro en que el protagonista tenga cualidades de líder.⁣⁣ Belleza cruel 5/5 Nyx me encantó tiene muy buenas cualidades como líder, y me sorprendió como logró todo lo que se proponía. Me gustó la historia, tenía unos giros que no me esperaba. -Severus Snape: Un libro en el que el personaje que parecía malo resultase ser bueno.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ La bestia 5/5⁣⁣ Me gusto el libro, Kyle resultó ser bueno, al principio parecía un ser despreciable, pero no lo era, todo lo que hace por Will, Lindy y Magda es increible.

Wrap up Bingo "La Orden del Fénix" -Albus Dumbledore: Clásico que dé una lección o haga una crítica moral.⁣⁣ Persuasión 3/5 Es una linda historia, aunque me aburrió por momentos, te deja la enseñanza, que tenés que tener más confianza en vos qué en lo que te dicen los demás. -Minerva McGongall: Un libro feminista o que le dé visibilidad a la mujer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Orgullo y Prejuicio 5/5⁣⁣ Es una historia clásica de amor, me gusto mucho Elizabeth, lo trascendental de la personalidad de Elizabeth, los cuestionamientos que hace al orden establecido, la rebeldía de una mujer que no quería casarse por comodidad, es muy fuerte y no se calla lo que piensa. Darcy un gran personaje.⁣ ⁣ -Alastor Moody: Un libro catalogado como polémico.⁣⁣ Mujercitas 3/5 Me gustó, pero no es de mis preferidos, fue un libro polémico, porque fue publicado, en una época que no se hablaba del feminismo, creo muchas controversias que a un existen. -Potter & Longbottom: Un libro en que la historia esté marcada por la tragedia.⁣⁣ Máscaras 5/5 Uno de mis libros favoritos, la historia de Fern, Ambrose y Bailey es hermosa, aunque me hace llorar mucho, es un lindo libro para que todos lean. -Sirius Black: Un libro con un protagonista rebelde.⁣⁣ La indomable Sophia 5/5 Me rei mucho con Sophia como se revelaba a las costumbres machistas de su familia, y sobre todo del pobre Charles, que quería domarla, y no lo conseguía. ⁣⁣ -Remus y Tonk: Un romance en el que los protagonistas sean de diferentes culturas (o haya prejuicio sociales de por medio).⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Por siempre felices, Cinder y Ella 5/5 Me gustó mucho la historia de Ella y Brian (Cinder), lo bueno que es Brian para Ella, como la ayuda enfrentándose a todos los idiotas de Hollywood y al padre de Ella, es una buena lectura para que lean -Familia Weasley: Un libro en el que la trama afecte a toda una familia.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Hasta que deje de doler 5/5⁣⁣ Violeta y Vincent, se convirtieron en unas de mis parejas favoritas, los ame a ambos. Me entristeció y enterneció como sufrió toda la familia de Vincent, al verlo tan decido a correr todos los riesgos para terminar con su vida. Violeta un gran personaje.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ -Kingsley Shaklebolt: Un libro en que el protagonista tenga cualidades de líder.⁣⁣ Belleza cruel 5/5 Nyx me encantó tiene muy buenas cualidades como líder, y me sorprendió como logró todo lo que se proponía. Me gustó la historia, tenía unos giros que no me esperaba. -Severus Snape: Un libro en el que el personaje que parecía malo resultase ser bueno.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ La bestia 5/5⁣⁣ Me gusto el libro, Kyle resultó ser bueno, al principio parecía un ser despreciable, pero no lo era, todo lo que hace por Will, Lindy y Magda es increible.

Bingo Octubre- Noviembre- Diciembre" Albus Dumbledore: Memorias del subsuelo. Pone en cuestionamiento la personalidad de las personas y cuestiona al formalismo ruso. Minerva Mcgonagall: Monologos de la vagina. Diferentes discurso de mujeres sobre sus experiencias con la vagina. Alastor Moody: El manifiesto Comunista. Marx critica al capitalismo y da sus pensamientos comunistas. Potter & Longbottom: Almendra. Yunjae, pierde a su abuela en un raro accidente y su madre cae en coma; asi èl tiene que enfrentarse solo a las dificultades de la vida. Sirius Black: Tres espejo; espada. Jin es un campesino que por las vueltas de la vida se convierte en un desertor y en consecuencia en el mejor pirata de la historia. Bemys & Nymphadora: Tres espejos: luna. Yue, es una jovencita de un pueblo de la antigua china, que se enamora de u granjero llamado Jian. Ella siendo de una clase mas alta. Familia Weasley: Mansfield Park. Fanny es una niña cuando sus tios con mejor posiciòn economica se la llevan a Mansfield park para darle una mejor educacion. Kingsley Shacklebolt: Sombra y Hueso. Alina Starkow no espera mucho de la vida hasta que un dia descubre que es una grisha y tiene que luchar contra el señor oscuro. Severus Snape: Quien sabe si mañana seguiremos aqui: Un asesino en serie, que sufre de alzheimer, esta seguro de que su hija esta de novia con otro asesino en serie y hace todo lo posible para salvarla.

dully. To know I could have it now, to be complete with it, if only I had let Sirius die. "Harrison!" Harry opens his eyes to see Snape and Magnus staring down at him. Snape's face is a picture of furious concern and Harry rolls his eyes. "Not dead," he sighs. "Jesus fucking Merlin," Snape mutters under his breath. "Language," Harry snorts and Snape reaches down, very slowly, to press his fingers against Harry's neck for a pulse. It's a measure of how stressed the potions master is that he doesn't rise to the bait and just stares at Harry's throat as if counting the pulse visually. Harry rolls his eyes.

Harry pensó que Dumbledore pedía un milagro. Sirius y Snape se miraban con intenso odio.

There was something about the slightly flattened tone of voice in which Sirius uttered Dumbledore’s name that told Harry that Sirius was not very happy with the headmaster either. Harry felt a sudden upsurge of affection for his godfather. “At least you’ve known what’s been going on,” he said bracingly. “Oh yeah,” said Sirius sarcastically. “Listening to Snape’s reports, having to take all his snide hints that he’s out there risking his life while I’m sat on my backside here having a nice comfortable time . . . asking me how the cleaning’s going —” “What cleaning?” asked Harry. “Trying to make this place fit for human habitation,” said Sirius, waving a hand around the dismal kitchen. “No one’s lived here for ten years, not since my dear mother died, unless you count her old house-elf, and he’s gone round the twist, hasn’t cleaned anything in ages —” “Sirius?” said Mundungus, who did not appear to have paid any attention to this conversation, but had been minutely examining an empty goblet. “This solid silver, mate?” “Yes,” said Sirius, surveying it with distaste. “Finest fifteenth-century goblin-wrought silver, embossed with the Black family crest.” “That’d come off, though,” muttered Mundungus, polishing it with his cuff. “Fred — George — NO, JUST CARRY THEM!” Mrs. Weasley shrieked. Harry, Sirius, and Mundungus looked around and, a split second later, dived away from the table. Fred and George had bewitched

Why can't Dumbledore teach Harry?" asked Sirius aggressively. "Why you?" "I suppose beacuse it is a headmaster's privilege to delegate less enjoyable tasks," said Snape silkily. "I assure you I did not beg for the job.

Wrap Up "La orden del fenix" *Albus Dumbledore: Emma *Minerva McGonagall Orgullo y Prejuicio 5/5 Es una historia clásica de amor, me gusto mucho Elizabeth, el libro le da mucha visibilidad a la mujer, ella es muy fuerte y no se calla lo que piensa. Darcy un gran personaje. *Alastor Moody *Potter & Longottom *Sirius Black *Remus & Tonk *Familia Weasley Hasta que deje de doler 5/5 Violeta y Vincent, se convirtieron en unas de mis parejas favoritas, los ame a ambos. Me entristeció y enterneció como sufrió toda la familia de Vincent, al verlo tan decido a correr todos los riesgos para terminar con su vida. Violeta un gran personaje. *Kingsley Shacklebolt *Severus Snape La bestia 5/5 Me gusto el libro, Kyle resulto ser bueno, al principio parecía un ser despreciable, pero no lo era, todo lo que hace por Will, Lindy y Magda es increible.

Sirius’s recollections introduce new information about Snape the student. He arrived knowing adult-level curses—defensive, angry, possibly power hungry, and smart, if not wise. He was notorious. He had friends, or at least a “gang”—he was not entirely unpopular, at least within his own House.

By the time of the Final Battle, Harry discovers two more ways to handle dementors, and we see evidence that Snape probably used these tactics to seal his own mind against them. The Resurrection Stone gives Harry one way. The almost solid forms of Lily, James, Sirius, and Lupin keep him company on his walk toward death. These are the parents and family friends whose care instilled love in him so that he could have the kind of joy in life that can produce a Patronus. Not everyone is fortunate enough to have such riches. Not everyone is unfortunate enough to lose many of their loved ones so early. These intense memories of beloved caretakers are the sort of emotion that Patronuses are made of. Just thinking about them is protection enough.

No one kept an eye on young Snape the way Snape is now watching Draco. After more than 20 years since Sirius nearly killed him, Snape is asking for proof of care from Dumbledore, one more time. It’s brave. Dumbledore finally sees this.

If this came as a surprise to Dumbledore, then he hadn’t seen Snape’s doe Patronus for years, or perhaps ever before. As far as we know, the only people who ever saw the doe were Sirius, Dumbledore, Harry, and Ron. Dumbledore worked with Snape, depended upon him, but never asked him the private source of his growing strength. Perhaps he assumed that with time, Snape’s memories of Lily would have faded or been replaced. But Snape’s Patronus is powerful and effortless: it must be never far from his mind that all his protective powers have grown from that one original source, the

With confirmation that the messy intruder was Snape, this line is much funnier: “Evidently Sirius’s bedroom had been searched too, although its contents seemed to have been judged mostly, if not entirely, worthless.” (HP/DH, 179) Even in the passive voice, the sentence resounds with Snape’s disdain for everything to do with this room and its late owner. Rereading this sentence in light of Snape’s memory involves extraordinarily layered perspectives and time shifts. We readers are going back in our own time, looking at this sentence anew and remembering how we read it before. The narrator is showing Harry’s perspective as he reads the evidence of the room, recognizing that someone had been there before him, reconstructing the probable process of that person’s search and the probable conclusions they eventually reached, considering again how the room looks but from the point of view of the unknown intruder. This person had judged Sirius, and not favorably. Snape is not in the scene at all, yet we can imagine his presence vividly throughout.

a baby. No wonder it meant so much to Sirius to give Harry the Firebolt. He learned that they had had a cat, that Petunia had sent a hideous vase, that James had been proud of his baby’s ability on a broom . . .  ordinary things that Harry would have given anything to have in his life growing up. The letter was an “incredible treasure” to Harry, as it would have been to anyone: “He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruption sent joy and grief thundering in equal measure through his veins.” (HP/DH, 181) This is blood magic, this uncontrolled rush of painful love for and from his mother flooding all Harry’s being, changing him, bathing him in the oxytocin that is the Muggle name for the magic of love flowing in the blood to create more love, to help infants grow, to hasten healing, to create empathy and protectiveness. This is what Harry craved, having known 15 months of it and then no more until he gained his friends at Hogwarts. This is what child Snape craved when he gazed greedily at Lily, who had been raised with such love. This is what Voldemort craved so badly that he didn’t even know he craved it until he saw Lily’s love for baby Harry and then the force of his craving sent him howling into nothingness, unable to regenerate a human body until he stole the oxytocin in Harry’s blood with Lily’s love still in it.

This is the answer to Sirius’s question about why Dumbledore would hire someone who once worked for Voldemort. People can change, even if their spots cannot. Appearances and inner reality are not always the same. There are sometimes good reasons to present the self untruthfully, even if that can be a grueling ordeal, as Sirius well knows. And people who have undergone such transformations know things, can do things, that those innocent of such ordeals cannot.

This scene is cringe-worthy and heartbreaking. Twelve years of wrongful imprisonment, followed by two and a half years as a fugitive, have kept Sirius in a state of arrested development. Snape has had the freedom denied Sirius, but when threatened by his least favorite bully from his past, he regresses to taunting Sirius about something that Gryffindors find intolerable: forced inactivity during crisis. Yet there is beauty in both men in this scene, too. Harry sees someone who cares about nothing in the world more than Harry’s happiness and is willing to fight for it. Snape gives Sirius a genuine warning.

This is a change from the argument about Occlumency lessons when Sirius refused to believe that Snape had reformed. We don’t know whether Sirius has understood Snape better or whether being a parent figure for Harry has matured his thinking, but we see that Lupin notices the change.

If Snape ever feels tempted to protest to these good people that their old faith in him was not misplaced, he can remember what happened when Dumbledore succumbed to the flaw in the plan, the affection that makes it difficult to be ruthless. Dumbledore flinched at telling Harry the truth and Sirius died for it. Snape cannot permit such a lapse when so much is at stake.

Snape knew the rush of hunger for more of Lily would be unstoppable for Harry, like the letters from Hogwarts pouring in when he turned 11, more and more, because the one thing Harry has ever wanted is his own story, his own family. Harry had been given back so much of his father through knowing Lupin and Sirius, through wearing his cloak and flying his Firebolt. But he was still starved for his mother, still had so little of his mother except for her eyes, and this was something Snape could give him.

He did not need the Resurrection Stone. He could recall the love in his interactions with Lily Evans as powerfully as the Resurrection Stone recalled Lily, James, Lupin, and Sirius for Harry.

In the ensuing rush of adventure, there is little leisure for the reader to reflect upon how teen Snape would have felt glimpsing a werewolf at the end of a narrow tunnel, set up by his enemies. From the time Sirius and Lupin both headed back to his adult workplace, Snape has been battling memories of that episode. As far as Snape knows, the boy who once tried to get him killed and saw nothing wrong with turning his own werewolf friend into a killer could easily have become a mass murderer.

So Lupin finds Snape’s response understandable. The prank, with all its implications for Lupin, was thought up by Sirius alone. And Sirius, whose development has been arrested by imprisonment, dementors, and rage for the past 12 years, expresses no remorse

After all the precautions put in place for Lupin’s protection as a student, after all the special treatment, Lupin still led his friends into danger, out-of-bounds, at night, and visited Hogsmeade as a werewolf. Yet when Sirius nearly got him to kill another student, nobody was expelled; there is no evidence that anyone was even punished. The only consequence we know for sure is that Snape was “forbidden by Dumbledore to tell anybody” (HP/PoA, 357) that Lupin is a werewolf. He was forbidden to speak of his terrifying experience. His near murder, and his need to work through it by talking, were considered less important than Lupin’s privacy and, perhaps, Dumbledore’s chagrin.

Hermione is regularly the only Gryffindor to be as concerned for Professor Snape as she is for others, despite Snape’s usual refusal to listen to her or acknowledge her. Because of Hermione’s vigilance, Harry gets a glimpse of how his nemesis behaves when he thinks nobody’s looking. Snape is not acting here. He is careful even with the unconscious Sirius Black, in contrast to Sirius bumping Snape’s head intentionally when Snape was unconscious. (HP/PoA, 378) It may be that the private Snape is a better man than the public persona Harry usually sees.

As Dumbledore said, Snape suffered a severe disappointment when Sirius escaped: he had hoped for some closure. If Dumbledore was able to speak to Snape after his flashback, acknowledging what his gag order had cost Snape and admitting his errors, that conversation might have functioned like a Time-Turner for Snape. He and Dumbledore would have been able to think back to the moment of Snape’s student trauma and acknowledge Snape’s innocence and suffering in the matter. This would have enabled Dumbledore to see why Snape would go to any lengths to protect other students from undergoing the same ordeal and led to Dumbledore lifting the confidentiality ban.

From Snape’s point of view, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is not the story of a kind teacher with a stigmatized disability and a wrongly incarcerated man set free by his courageous godson. It is the story of bullies who once got away with nearly getting Snape killed, the headmaster who refused to expel Sirius but cracked down on Snape by forbidding him to talk about his ordeal, the werewolf who returned as a teacher and once again posed a fatal danger to Hogwarts students, and the same headmaster, older but apparently no wiser, refusing even to listen to Snape’s concerns for student safety.

He and all the other Weasleys froze on the threshold, gazing at the scene in front of them, which was also suspended in mid-action, both Sirius and Snape looking toward the door with their wands pointing into each other’s faces and Harry immobile between them, a hand stretched out to each of them, trying to force them apart. “Merlin’s beard,” said Mr. Weasley, the smile sliding off his face, “what’s going on here?