Research Paper On Snape

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prof snape is a fictional character of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
Introduced as a man of cold and bitter nature , he comes out to be the hero of the series who not only sacrificed his love but also saved life of lily's son at each and every moment of his life since he met him.

in the series , snape is an exceptionally skillful wizard who teaches harry
(lily's son) potions at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.in the starting novel of the series snape is a teacher who is always bitter to harry but as soon as the series begins his character becomes more layered but Rowling does not reveal snape's true character untill the last book of the series i.e. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

in the sixth novel i.e. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , he teaches
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at the end harry defines snape as the bravest man he ever knew, to his son albus severus potter whom he named after him.

all the seven novel shows snape as a powerful wizard who knew more hexes and curses as a first year student at hogwarts than seventh year students.he was particularly gifted in potions and has a passion for the dark arts.he teaches as a potions master in hogwarts for many years and then in sixth book he teaches defence against dark arts which was his deepest desires.

in first book snape is shown as a teacher of bitter and sarcastic nature who hates harry and he never misses a chance to take points from his house and always tries to insult him in front of everyone.

in the fourth book i.e. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire it is revealed that once snape was a death eater. in this book a lot is revealed like abiut karakoff who was a death eater and when the dark lord returns karakoff tries to scare of snape but snape says he is no more a death eater and is not afraid to say this.a walk inside his memories changed his image from weirdest potion master to bravest man he ever

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