Severus Snape

Severus Snape is a halfblood wizard and potions master. He was a Death Eater during The Purity War, before turning to become a spy for Albus Dumbledore. He currently teaches Potions at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is known to be a harsh teacher that favors Slytherins, and is the Head of Slytherin House.

## Early Life:

During his time at Hogwarts he was a Slytherin student. He managed to achieve an O+ in Potions at the end of every single year of Hogwarts education. In his last three years at Hogwarts he pulls of a similar feat in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

## **1991:**

At the end of the start of year feast he welcomes the new Slytherin students from the comforts of their common room. He then lays out his rules and his expectations for his new charges. The next day he teaches in the morning the first-year Gryffindors and Slytherins. He ends up testing the general Potions knowledge of both Potters determining that the Slytherin one might not be a lost cause after all.

On the evening of September 12th he received an anonymous tip, that he later on suspects to be from Harry Potter, that warns him of an upcoming duel in the Trophy Room. When he arrives there he stumbles upon a room in shambles and a knocked-out Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley, whom he takes to the Hospital Wing.

Right before Harry Potter is to leave for the Weitts' Family Samhain Gathering Severus warms him that the next time he does something as stupid as his previous encounter with the troll the consequences will be most severe. Then he pays Harry a backhanded compliment.

During the Slytherin-Gryffindor Quidditch match he is murmuring a counter curse for the broom of Charlus Potter, thus delaying his assassination attempt. Unknown to him, his robes are set aflame by Hermione Granger in a misguided attempt to save Charlus life.

## **1992:**

He ends up being the referee for the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match of the 1991-1992 season. In the aftermath of the match he goes to the Forbidden Forest where he has a not-so-private conversation with Albus Dumbledore related to the Philosopher's Stone. The conversation is overhead by the Potter Twins.

On the evening of May 8th he plays host to the Aurors and to Lucius Malfoy who try to ascertain the guilt of Harry Potter in smuggling a dragon. As the crate that supposedly hosted the dragon proved to be empty the accusing parties end up receiving detention at least until the end of term. Harry Potter, for being out after curfew ends up receiving a single detention.

After being informed about the developments in the Philosopher's Stone plot on June 4th by Daphne Greengrass he informs Albus Dumbledore for them via a Patronus. The next day she congratulates Daphne for her actions from the previous night. During the same conversation he admits that Harry Potter might be able to clean some of the negative reputation attributed to Slytherin House in the last years.

After the school year ends, on June 20th, Severus Snape goes to Dumbledore’s office at Hogwarts and confronts him about what happened during the end of the year in the school’s catacombs. They discuss Lady Voldemort and her latest actions. After further prodding from Severus, Dumbledore admits that he had orchestrated the whole confrontation between Charlus and Voldemort. Severus, to Dumbledore’s surprise, expresses his dissatisfaction in regards to the expendable manner in which Harry Potter was treated.

On the evening of September 1st, he catches Charlus Potter and Ron Weasley in the act of harassing the Whomping Willow with their insufferable presence. Later in the evening, after the opening feast is concluded, he gives a speech to the new first-year Slytherins in the Common Room. He then proceeds to test Harry Potter by asking him to define success. Seemingly satisfied with the received answer he awards the boy five points.

The morning of September 4th finds him intervening to break the confrontation between Harry's friends and Ron Weasley. When made aware of the wound inflicted by Ron upon Harry he intends to heal the boy, but, reconsiders when noticing their reaction to him drawing his wand close to their face. He thus instead proceeds by taking Ron Weasley to see Professor McGonagall.

After dinner on September 17th, he gathers the Slytherin Quidditch team in his office and presents them with their new bribe brooms. He instructs them to keep their new brooms secret so that they have a strategic advantage against their first opponent. Afterwards he then dismisses everyone from his office with the exception of Harry and Draco whom he reminds that the team comes before their petty conflicts.

He has a conversation in confidence with Pansy Parkinson on September 26th where she, after some initial — and quickly dismissed — failed manipulations, asks for a tutor to help her with Transfiguration. Understanding her subtle intent of joining Harry's group, he agrees and organizes a tutoring session between Pansy and Harry Potter.

He is alongside the Headmaster and some of his colleagues when they go and look into the debacle caused by the petrification of the Caretaker's cat on the evening of October 31st. Severus, alongside her fellow professors, with the exception of Lockhart, are of the opinion that Harry Potter is not responsible for the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. He makes a compelling argument that explains how Harry could not have been the one opening the Chamber. At the end of the evening he leads Harry back to the Slytherin Common Room. On the way there he encourages the boy to stay clear of the whole debacle.

He participates on the evening of December 17th as an instructor in the first meeting of the reformed Dueling Club. There he engages in an exhibition duel with Gilderoy Lockhart. Later on he pairs the students for their duels and when the duel between the Potter Twins leads to the formation of a Magical Dome he is the one responible for destroying it.

Some days later, on December 21st, he finally visits Albus Dumbledore in his office to figure out what happened during the Dueling Club. The two talk with Dumbledore revealing that he does not think that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin, but that does not mean that he could not in fact be doing their bidding. Albus then asks Snape to watch Harry closely which the professor agrees to do.

## 1993:

On January 11th after searching alongside the other professors for the missing Daphne Greengrass he heads to the Slytherin Common Room to gather his House for a mandatory meeting. There he informs the whole of Slytherin House of the latest developments, that is, the dissapearence of Daphne Greengrass, and the most likely upcoming political pressure that will be brought by the Neutral Faction via the Wizengamot upon Hogwarts. He informs the students that this might as well be their last chance to talk and reveal any information that they might have about the Heir of Slytherin.

He along the other teachers, gather to the Staff Room on the evening of May 30th. There they are informed by Minerva McGonagall that during the day the Wizengamot met during an emergency session and decided for Hogwarts not to reopen for the next academic year if the Heir of Slytherin is not apprehended.

On the evening of June 4th, after Minerva McGonagall places the castle into full lockdown in light of Harry Potter and Ares Black being the latest victims of the Heir of Slytherin, he alongside his colleagues, congregate to the Staff Room to discuss. He expresses his opinion that at this point they are partaking in an exercise in futility, and that they should close the school as they are not even closer to discovering the identity of the Heir compared to when they started their investigation. In the end, Minerva McGonagall is reluctant to use her power as Interim Headmistress to close the school for the time being.

Shortly afterwards, he gathers the Slytherins in the Common Room. There he announces the disappearance of Harry Potter and Ares Black and of their foretold upcoming deaths. He informs his students that now is their last chance to come forward with any relevant information.