Written by: Rakshit Dahal - 22024, Grade XII
Posted on: 18 April, 2022
During the 2000s Harry Potter movies were one of the most best selling franchises throughout the world. The book was written by JK Rowling and soon , it turned into visual arts and that was the only thing that got me to watch the Harry Potter series. Still today it is quite popular and the storyline is quite hard to break and not fall in love with it. Starring Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson and Rupert Grin, the movie amazed everyone in the US, Europe and around the globe.
The main aspects that made me amazed about this series was how influential ,interesting and mysterious the story line was. The series consisted of about 8 movies. To my surprise none of the movies in the series led my expectations down about the movie and the story line.This movie consisted of three main characters , Harry Potter , Ron Weasley and Hermoine, for me none of the characters were quite attractive except one , I mean except two , I had a little crush on Hermoine back then . But here I will be talking about the mysterious dark guy, Professor Snape: A tall black haired , black dressed and scary middle aged man who taught defense against dark arts. His movements , his pale looks and no expressions made him look scary.Though in the 7 movies Professor Snape seemed to be quite a rude, lonely and aggressive teacher and I honestly hated that guy. But boy oh boy, did the last movie change my perspective.The plot about Snape’s life secret turned from right to left real quick in the last movie and my perspective towards him was changed.
Speaking of his character, Professor Snape was that child who was always bullied and was hardly loved. He hardly had any parents' love and was always insulted. He had one and only love of his life who soon fell in love with the other guy and left poor Snape alone. Can you imagine how it might have felt to the poor guy? But that didn't affect his love for her. Soon the girl who Snape loved died due to much deeper patterns in the movie by a guy “ who shall not be named”. He was portrayed as a rude and egoistic teacher who kind of hated Harry Potter which makes sense because his mother was the girl Snape loved and Harry looked like his dad, who bullied Snape when both Snape and Potter’s dad were in school. I too hated Harry’s dad ,like Professor Snape.
The ending of Severus Snape is quite tragic to be honest. He died protecting Harry Potter. He was viewed as an evil character throughout the movie and was never loved ever in his life though he had loved everyone in a different way or let's call it his own way. Snape's bravery was quite fascinating; he was always known as the cartoon guy yet what he did for Harry was a tragic secret,a secret no one will ever find out. Professor Snape died while looking into the eyes of the child whose mother was once truly loved by him and for once he cried and his tears was the reason that little ungrateful Harry got to know about all of Snape’s life through some magic.
Snape taught me that there are no good men and bad men, we all are born with different shades of life with different pain and thousands of complexities. It is you who decides to address the complexities in different manner as you please.
Life was hard on Snape, he saw his love marry a guy who bullied him in school and was brought up in a strict environment with hardly anyone to consult him. He was made on his own and still chose the right path. This is what makes me love him.
