Thursday, October 22, 2009
Severus Snape
[ My favorite character in Harry Potter series ]
(SPOILERS ALERT!!!!)
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Don't say I never warn you! If you are still reading, bear the consequences!
Anyone who knows me well enough will know I am a Harry Potter fan. So of course I love to read the books.
I have two favorite characters in the book. The first one is of course, Mr Harry Potter himself.
The second one, however, may come as a shock to some people.
Especially to those who did NOT read finish the books.
This character is a very complex person. He is the total opposite of Harry Potter. Cos' Harry Potter, if you are familiar with the series, is quite a simple person. He is brave, and he has a heart full of gold, or lots of love.
Either way, a typical protagonist.
My second favorite character, is so complex that I hated him at first. (At least in the stories, cos' in the movies, somehow Alan Rickman is such a charismatic Severus Snape)
Yeah. He is none other than Severus Snape. Not Hermione, not Ron, Dumbledore was my second favorite.
He made Dumbledore paled in comparison.
Even Dumbledore admired Snape for that.
Exactly what did Snape do that made me like him so much?
Actually I am more touched about what he did, cos' I cried when Harry Potter found out what he did after he died. Because all the truth came out.
Anything that touches my heart made me think. (Yeah, even if it's just a fiction story.)
Will you fall in love with a person at the age of 9?
Hmm....maybe.
Will you love that same person for more than a decade faithfully?
Yeah, I might.
How about loving that same person since 9 years old even though she/he hates you?
Maybe I will.
How about loving AND changing for that same person who not only hates you but married your archenemy and gave birth to a son that looks exactly like your archenemy?
Er....it's quite hard.
How about protecting the above mentioned son with your life by being maligned and accused of being a monster and killing?
Are you insane?
Well, that's roughly what Snape did. As evil and led astray he was, that he called the evil Lord Voldemort his master, he changed into a new leaf. Just so to protect the son whom the woman he loves gave birth to, with his arch enemy as the father. Harry Potter.
I was really shocked when I first knew why Snape did what he did. That he was not evil. I mean some websites already predicted that he is one of the good guys, but I could never fathom WHY he is the good guy. I never expect it to be because of his love for Lily Potter(Harry's mother).
A gist of the story goes like this:
He met Lily when he was about 9 years old? And at the first sight he fell in love, you know those kind of sweet child-like innocent puppy love. He was attracted to Lily's fun-loving nature and sunny character I supposed.
So they became good friends at first. They were good friends.
But they are from very different backgrounds. Snape is like Malfoy, born into an old magick bloodline family. So they love to be in Slytherin and do all the dark magic stuff, like Voldemort.
But Snape was poor, and greasy and slimy so James Potter(Harry's father) bullied him with his other friends, cos' they were from well-off families. They just found him weird and disliked the attention Lily gave to Snape, since James liked her.
Anyway, like any other friends, Lily and Snape quarreled. But it was Snape's fault for calling her a name that was unforgivable, thus Lily broke off their friendship, since she also disliked the fact that he hanged out too much with the evil Slytherin gang(Malfoy's dad, Lucius).
Snape was not perfect. Like any other human, he made alot of mistakes. One that even caused the death of the woman he loves. Yet, he learnt from them and was very remorseful about it.
What touches me the most is his love for Lily. How it had never changed. Even though she married the person that tortured him the most.
Because of his love, he was the one who protected Harry till the end at great risk of his own life. He had to be a double agent(which means lying to the evil Voldemort) for Dumbledore, or rather, Harry Potter. He had to bear the bad name of being Dumbledore's killer to do that.
He did not owe Lily or Dumbledore or Harry anything.
Yet, because of his love, he chose the right path and risked his life, and eventually died for his love.
No matter what happened, whatever she did, he still loved her.
Even though she didn't even know of his love. Even though he did not expect her to reciprocate his love.
He still loves her.........till the end.
P.S: According to the story, he is the third most powerful wizard, after Dumbledore and Voldemort. He is very smart.
Joyce Kho Ming Zhen ♥
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