Severus Snape was born on January 9, 1960, and went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He hated James Potter, Harry Potter's father, but he loved Lily Evans, Harry Potter's mother. He was very talented at the art of potions making and interested in the Dark Arts. Snape loathed James so much because James had humiliated him a number of times.
When Snape grew up, he became a death eater, one of Voldemort's followers. Then when he heard that Voldemort might kill Lily, he begged Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, to save her. Dumbledore agreed, but on one condition: that Snape work for him and give him the information that Voldemort was telling him. When Harry Potter came to school (unknowing he was a wizard until the groundkeeper of Hogwarts, Rubius Hagrid, told him) Snape thought he was as arrogant as his father.
On the train to Hogwarts, the Hogwarts Express, Harry met two of his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. In Potions class, Snape chose to ignore Hermione when she was bouncing up and down in her seat with the answer. He thought that she was acting like a two year old.
In Harry's first year at Hogwarts School, Snape protected Harry because he thought that might get even with a thing that James had done. The joke (as Snape had called it) was a thing when Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, had told Snape that he could see a werewolf if he went down to the Whomping Willow on a full moon. Snape had gone down and he could've gotten killed if James hadn't saved his life. Snape thought, however, that James was saving his own life more than his.
Snape was constantly trying to take points from Gryffyndor because he himself was head of Slytherin, the house he had been in when he was young.
Severus Snape died on May 2, 1998 because he was murdered by Voldemort and Nagani, Voldemort's snake. It was only after Snape died when Harry discovered Snape's big secret. If you want to find out what that secret is, I suggest you read the Harry Potter series.
Awesome synopsis thank you Zoe. I didn't realise the depth of feeling Snape had for Lily or that that was the power Dumbledore held over Snape. Very dangerous to have all your emotion tied up in one person... I guess Snape paid the ultimate price.
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