The Half Blood Prince

The Half Blood Prince

Monday, January 31, 2011

Snape in the Deathly Hallows

Unfortunately we don't get to see a lot of Snape in HP7:1, but Im sure "the prince's tale" in part 2 will be fantastic!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Snape at Hogwarts


Years: 1971 to 1978.
House: Slytherin (JKR).
Career:
Potions Master and Head of Slytherin House since 1980, appointed Teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts in 1996, Headmaster of Hogwarts between 1997 and 1998. During the first six books, Snape is a teacher hated by all, except the students from his house. Some even fear him, like Neville Longbottom (whose boggart becomes Snape), and his character is often described as nasty, sarcastic and even cruel.
Office:
Adjacent to the Potions classroom in the dungeons.
Potions Classroom:
A cold and dark place, the walls were lined with glass jars with slimy bits of some dead animal and plants.
Defence against the Dark Arts classroom:
He made it dark and gloomy with pictures of people "in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts."
Headmaster's Office:
He did not change it much, or at least Harry didn´t notice it.

Some descriptions from the books:

"Snape always been fascinated by the Dark Arts, and was famous for it at school" Sirius Black
"Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the seventh-grade boys, and belonged to the group of Slytherins who later became Death Eaters" Sirius Black

At home with Snape

Severus Snape lives, while he is not at Hogwarts, in a house in a dirty and abandoned industrial muggle neighborhood, near a dirty river, in a dreary industrial town of Northern England. The street is poorly maintained, with broken streetlights and some windows of the houses are walled up with boards or are broken. At the end of this street is Snape's house, in front of an old industrial chimney. The house is a brick one and has at least two floors.



Upon entering the house is a small, dark room that resembles an isolation cell. The walls are completely covered with books, most bound in a worn leather brown or black. There is also a sofa in the shabby living room, an old armchair, and a rickety table. The room is lit only by a lamp hanging from the ceiling candle that emits a faint glow of light. One of the bookshelves is actually a secret door, pointing the wand (and possibly thinking of a spell) opens it with a bang, revealing a narrow staircase that ascends to the upper floor. There is another secret door in the room that leads to a room where Snape keeps elf made wine.