Severus Snape

"Exactly: rushing into danger," Snape snarled, "With no thought for your own wellbeing or anything except your insatiable need to involve yourself in affairs far above your pay-grade."
"I just told you I did think before I went after Remus," Rigel said, ever patient. Draco personally thought he'd get further with their Head of House by apologizing profusely and claiming to not have been thinking clearly. Telling Snape he'd purposely done something stupid wasn't exactly a good defense.
"And what thoughts, pray tell, did your puny, prepubescent brain come up with that justified so foolhardy and ill-advised a course of action, Mr. Black?"

**Severus Snape** is a main character of the *Rigel Black Chronicles*. He teaches Potions at Hogwarts and serves as a mentor to Rigel Black.

## Profile

### Personality

As per his canon depiction, Snape is intelligent and talented, but impatient and often harsh, making him a brilliant academic but an unpopular teacher. He does not apologise for placing heavier workloads on his students than other teachers do, believing that his subject is particularly dangerous (with some justification for thinking so) and requires higher standards.

However, he does not display the same self-loathing as in canon, likely because Lily never died as a result of his mistakes. Unlike his canon self, he is able to look past his feud with the Marauders to recognise "Rigel's" potential, and comes to care about "him" both personally and professionally, though he still loathes the Marauders as much as ever.

## History

### Childhood

As per canon, Severus meets and befriends Lily Evans at a young age, until their choices take them in different directions. His hatred of James Potter likely starts when they're 11 and Lily comes to see Severus off at King's Cross and James immediately proposes to her.

He is probably involved in the Library incident in which Sirius put the prophecy section on fire.

### Adult life

After his estrangement from Lily, Severus becomes aware of the potential for the Save Our World party to pass legislation that would have sharply limited employment opportunities for muggle-born mages. In honour of Lily's past friendship, he makes a deal with Riddle, joining the Party and serving faithfully in exchange for the legislation being shelved indefinitely.

In 1986, when Severus misses a Head of House meeting, Dumbledore paints his cauldrons pink, making his NEWT students laugh. He never misses a staff meeting since.

### 1992-1993 School Year

He goes to the apothecary in Hogsmeade when Harry goes to buy ice mice. During the start of term meeting, he supports Flint against McGonagall about his assignments, and have a feeling that Flint, Percy Weasley and Rigel are connected in some way.

Snape steps in when Lockhart seems to steer a female student in the girl's bathroom. Snape recognizes Rigel's lack of aura, so he takes it over from here and confronts her in his office about the prank with the puppet she was putting up. Their talk devolves around Rigel's family and the fact that they don't know Snape is tutoring her. Snape then learns she and Archie as Harry keep pace with each other's curriculum, which means she betrayed Snape by divulging his teaching to "Harry". Snape accepts for this to continue and promises he will ask Madam Pomfrey to supervise her Healing training and Madam Pince to let her borrow books at the Library.

## Appearances

**Appearances**
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 3
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 4 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 6
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 7
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 8
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 9 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 11 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 12 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 13
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 14
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 15
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 16 (*mentioned*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 17
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 18 (*perspective*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 19 (*perspective*)
* The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 20
 * The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 1
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 2 (*mentioned*)
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
* The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4 (*perspective*)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 4
2. ↑ The Pureblood Pretense: Chapter 14
3. ↑ The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 13
4. ↑ The Ambiguous Artifice: Chapter 15
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 3
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Serpentine Subterfuge: Chapter 5