This post is a comparison of major plot points in the movie and book versions of harry potter and the deathly hallows pt. Apr 05, 2017 severus snape, one of the most controversial figures in the wizarding world, might still be alive. When we first meet him in harry potter and the sorcerers stone, snape seems like hes destined to be the villain of the series. The princes tale professor snape is dead on voldemorts orders, and harry saw it all. Deathly hallows doesnt count since they had 2 movies for 1 book. Snape s seeming malice towards harry actually resulted from snape s lingering hatred and resentment towards james potter. He told nagini to kill him, thinking snape had won over the wand, but malfoy had disarmed dumbledore, so malfoy was the owner. We take a closer look at the chapter from deathly hallows that changed everything. His double life played an extremely important role in both of the wizarding. He was in the shrieking shack in the book, and the randomass hogwarts boat house in the movie. There is no way that snape could have told it all to harry in the midst of the battle, and in fact there is little way that harry would have been prepared to believe anything that snape, a death eater deep within the councils of voldemort, could have told him. Rowling weighs in on harry potter and the great snape debate.
Harry potter and the deathly hallows summary shmoop. In his dying moments, he told harry to take his memories and look at him one last. Allow us to destroy this harry potter theory that snape is. Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 snapes. This tragic harry potter theory about hedwig will blow. Major characters death altered for harry potter deathly. While harry potter and his friends assumed that snape died at the hands or teeth of voldemort. Dec 03, 2011 harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2. Harry potter and the deathly hallows plays thoughtfully upon the standard harry potter formula that weve all gotten used to over the course of the last six books we begin with a menacing taste of whats to come this time with a glimpse of what voldemort and his death eaters are up to, find ourselves at privet drive at the end of the summer. Killed during the battle of hogwarts by some death eater.
It stayed true to the actual relationship harry and snape had. Please do not continue on here if you have not read harry potter and the deathly hallows. Author lorrie kim uses multiple sources beyond the rowling books and includes quotes extensively from the series for an intensive analysis of, to my mind, rowlings most interesting characterseverus. When you look at the film as a whole its like pure bliss. One key thing harry potter and the cursed child revealed. If youve seen the movies, you might know that voldemort disintegrated following a nonsensical lonely battle in the courtyard of hogwarts, following a needless fall and poking each others eyes and noses. Severus snape, one of the most controversial figures in the wizarding world, might still be alive. Everyone knows that harry potter made sure the portrait of severus snape was hung in its rightful place at hogwarts. However, i think there is a more significant meaning of the name, which perhaps holds the key to the denouement of the forthcoming book 7. However, in book 7 it is clear that they disliked each. Snape was definitely a pretty awful person throughout the series, but the more we learned about him, the more we couldnt help but feel bad for him. Rowling shares which harry potter secret she told alan.
The seventh and final installment in the harry potter series opens with a dark scene at the malfoys, where voldemort is awaiting snape s report on harrys whereabouts. As sappy and nice as the movie version was, theres no way snape would have ever had such a revealing moment with harry, even in death. Did dumbledore order snape to kill him, or is snape actually a bad guy. Popular severus snape books meet your next favorite book. Look at me, because he wanted the last thing he saw before he died to be lily evanss eyes. Truly a great book and i will definitely be reading more from this author. Snapes last words plot coincidences in harry potter. The 25 heartbreaking deaths of the harry potter series.
Who died in d last harry potter book yahoo answers. Yet, as the books continue, snape becomes something far more ambiguous and. Sirius jokingly suggests that snape follow lupin through the passage beneath the whomping willow. David yates took the series and made it what it was because of how dark it got after prisoner but in all honesty. He was always very rude against snape and especially after dumbledores dead, although dumbledore himself always defended severus. I remember after reading the sixth book, harry potter and the halfblood prince, all anybody ever wanted to talk about was. Over the course of the deathfest that is harry potter and the deathly hallows, one characters demise stands out in my memory as the most gut. A walk inside snape s memories transformed him in harrys mind from sniping potions master to the bravest man he ever knew. James potter, realizing that snape would encounter a fullblown and very dangerous werewolf at the end of the passage, stops snape from going through, thereby read more. In this book, the reader is put in the place of a participant, to experience a sense of being in the training room and the spirit of what takes place there. Rowling addressed the topic today in a series of comments about the potions master. Writing tagged severus snape always 1 chapters updated may, 2015 06. Sorry for the sudden addition of dozens of fics i hadnt updated in a while and finally got through and updated all the good fics ive read since then. New harry potter fan theory says severus snape is alive.
Right then we did not realize the significance of his words but in the very next chapter when harry goes through snape. Poa is the last book to be happy and fun before shit hits the fan. Severus snape 9 january, 1960 2 may, 1998 was an english halfblood wizard serving as potions master 19811996, defence against the dark arts professor 19961997, and headmaster 19971998 of the hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry as well as a member of the order of the phoenix and a death eater. He was the son of a welsh mother, margaret doreen rose nee bartlett, a housewife, and bernard william rickman, a factory worker, house painter and decorator, and former world war ii aircraft fitter. These are the clues contained in the pages of harry pottter and the halfblood prince which support the possibility that snape is not really a eater, has remained loyal to dumbledore, and all through the book, snape is working on dumbledores orders. If with his bestselling novel the dice man, luke rhinehart offered the world a provocative antidote to modern dilemmas of choice and ennui. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish. Location of snapes death in harry potter and the deathly. Oct 31, 2010 sorry about the crappy first thirty seconds. Rowling weighs in on harry potter and the great snape. Snape was born to eileen prince, a witch, and tobias snape, a muggle, making him a halfblood hence the name, halfblood prince.
In the last book,harry overruled him, so thus keeping that in mind, harry is the owner of the wand. Dec 04, 2015 well, this is just about the saddest thing ive ever read. The chapter that made us fall in love with severus snape. Within the universe of the book his death was unnecessary, a fluke. When i was 11, i read harry potter and the sorcerers stone for the first time. This tragic harry potter theory about hedwig will blow your. The harry potter series is full to bursting with characters of all kinds, but perhaps the character with the most surprising, complicated, and tragic storyline is severus snape. Right then we did not realize the significance of his words but in the.
Alan sidney patrick rickman was born into a workingclass family in acton, west london, on 21 february 1946. I definitely prefer the book version of snape s ending. Harry was merely an unfortunate reminder and a convenient target. A definitive reading is a must read for general fans as well as those of us who have a snapecentric love of the harry potter series. Jan 18, 2016 when alan rickman first started playing the sneering potions master severus snape in the harry potter films, j. Snape s family background is mostly shown in flashbacks during the course of the last three novels. If youre like me, when you finished the last page of the last book of harry potter, you were filled with approximately 300 million. Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 snapes death.
Snape is intensely curious about where remus lupin goes each month. The legendary actor who won millions of fans worldwide as professor severus snape has died of cancer. Andrew acklandsnow, art director of the harry potter films, revealed in the november 2010 issue of cine premiere mexico magazine that the location of severus snapes death in harry potter and the deathly hallows. This is rare for a death eater, as remarked in the last book, though voldemort himself also had a muggle father. Last words of all characters who died in front of harry book.
This article contains major spoilers from harry potter and the cursed child, and is intended to be read by people who have seen the play or read the script book. He thought if snape killed dumbledore, snape would be the owner of the wand, not voldemort himself. Muggles guide to harry pottermajor eventsseverus death. Well, this is just about the saddest thing ive ever read. The dark lord is back in power, and his reach threatens even those in the muggle world. Apr 19, 2020 in the deathly hallows book, snape s dying words to harry were look at me. Yet, despite the battle proceeding apace, harry must get this information. Youre right that it is a reward snape never asked for, but i do have a problem with harrys attitude. Killed by voldemort since he wants to be the master of the elder wand, one can be so if he kills the master of a wand which is snape since he killed dumbledore. Severus snape died in harry potter and the deathly hallows, the last book in the series. After voldemort ordered nagini to kill severus, snape s last request to harry was simply. The princes tale wikibooks, open books for an open world. Then we all had to wait two horrifically long years.