Severus Snape

**Professor Severus Snape** is a canonical half-blood wizard and Potions Master at Hogwarts; he was a death eater during the First Wizarding War but defected to the Order of the Phoenix after his own actions put Lily Evans, whom he loved, in danger, and he became a spy for them. After the first fall of Voldemort he became Professor of Potions at Hogwarts and Head of Slytherin House, positions he held until 1996 and 1997, respectively; in 1996 he instead became Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, and after Voldemort took control of the Ministry in 1997 he was given the role of Headmaster. In the late spring of 1997 he killed Dumbledore, upon the latter's secret request, and due to this he was himself killed by Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts in the mistaken belief that he was the master of the Elder Wand (the true master being Harry Potter, since he had disarmed Draco Malfoy, who in turn had disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed him).

## Canonical information

Main article: **Severus Snape** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Severus was the son of the muggle Tobias Snape and his wife Eileen, née Prince, who was a witch. Based on his memories neither was a good parent, he being abusive and she neglecting her son, and he was happy to leave for Hogwarts.

He was a childhood friend of Lily Evans, and the one who explained the Wizarding World to her, and the two stayed friends for most of their time at Hogwarts even though they were sorted into different Houses. However, this friendship angered her housemates James Potter and Sirius Black, who detested Slytherin House, and they and their friends bullied him relentlessly; he in turn befriended several housemates who would later become death eaters and delved deeply into the Dark Arts. In their fifth year, things came to a head. Sirius tricked him into visiting the Shrieking Shack while Remus Lupin was hiding there transformed into his wolf form, and had not James suffered a change of heart and stopped him at the last minute, he would most likely have been killed. Yet the persecution didn't end, even though Lily tried to intervene on his behalf, and at one such time he lashed out in anger and humiliation, calling her a *filthy mudblood*. He immediately apologized and begged her forgiveness, but when he wasn't able to deny his intent to join the Death Eaters she decided they couldn't be friends anymore.

## Non-canonical information

### *Ignore the Dementor*

In this creature!fic, Snape is secretly a vampire and the faculty sponsor of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures (a.k.a. *Remedial Potions*), which he had been a member of "when it was [...] Remedial Divination". A few weeks into his first year, he tried to invite Remus Lupin to the club, but the latter refused to even acknowledge that he was anything but a normal human wizard (despite both Dumbledore and Madam Pomfrey knowing he was a werewolf). This disregard for the safety of others made him the particular target of Snape's loathing, far beyond his friends James Potter and Sirius Black, and this feeling was only worsened by the fact that he in their fifth year, as the friendship of Snape and Lily Evans fell apart, told her about Snape being a vampire.

After Umbridge takes over the school, he hides Dumbledore in his personal quarters (situated just past his office).

### *It's Always The Quiet Ones*

After he insults the mother of Luna Lovegood, she responds to his taunts about invisible creatures by making them visible to him, and to the rest of Hogwarts' staff and students; the three-feet gelatinous blob hovering over him with a tentacle in his ear is quite a shock, and his reaction is not the best. Unfortunately, while the visibility spell is active the humans will also be clearly visible to the denizens of this plane, and when a Great Old One notices Snape and eats him it realizes that death eaters are delicious. During the next month, some three hundred and seventy-five people, mostly pure-blood men with central positions within the government and/or society in general, vanishes without a trace (apart from the occasional nightmare-inducing sea smell) and nothing is ever heard again from Voldemort.

## References

1. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
2. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 11
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 14
4. ↑ *It's Always The Quiet Ones*, Chapter 1