Not in a Voldemort-leaving-a-lightning-bolt-shaped-scar way, but with a number of subtleties we didn’t notice until years later. Snape really did leave a mark on Harry in many ways.
Harry once spent an evening in Snape’s family’s home town So Snape was not a bloodsucker after all – he just liked to extract self-esteem from his students. ‘While it is true that he has an unhealthy pallor, and is sometimes described as looking like a large bat in his long black cloak, he never actually turns into a bat, we meet him outside the castle by daylight, and no corpses with puncture marks in their necks ever turn up at Hogwarts.’
‘For a long time there was a persistent fan rumour that Snape might be a vampire,’ she wrote. Rowling has since confirmed that Snape is not a creature of the night, after all, despite his appearance. Vampires do exist in the wizarding world after all – we bump into one called Sanguini in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.īut J.K. This has led to theories from fans that Snape is bat-like for a reason: he’s a vampire. On a few occasions while reading the books, you’ll come across descriptions comparing Snape to a bat, be it Professor Quirrell calling him an ‘overgrown bat’ in Philosopher’s Stone, or his figure being called ‘bat-like’ when it's revealed he can fly unaided. That fan theory about Snape being a vampire? Not true. Rowling has said that she took Snape’s name from an English village in Suffolk. The name ‘Severus’, as you might guess, roughly translates to ‘stern’ or ‘harsh’ in Latin, while ‘Snape’ means ‘to disgrace’, if you look at the old Norse term – ‘sneypa’. Most of the characters in Harry Potter have meanings behind their names that complement their characters’ personalities, and Snape’s name certainly suits him. Tissue, anyone? The etymology of his name is fitting Rowling revealed what she told Rickman: the reason behind Snape saying ‘always’ to Dumbledore.
Rowling had told him a future plot detail that helped him portray Snape’s ambiguity better. In an interview way back in 2011, Rickman revealed that J.K. The late, great actor, who portrayed Snape through all eight Harry Potter films, was privy to some information about his character long before any of us knew what Snape’s fate would be. I told Alan what lies behind the word 'always'.
Alan Rickman knew Severus’s secrets before we did And nope, sadly none of these facts have anything to do with the secrets of his greasy hair regime. Although we now understand Snape’s twisted and complicated story, here’s a few extra things about him that you may not have known. The always divisive Severus Snape had us guessing right until the very end about whose side he was really on – right into those climactic final chapters of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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