He was born on 28th April, by a pure-blood family one of the so-called ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’, which differently from the others didn’t encourage him to make only pure-blood friends, even if they quietly disagreed with Horace to hang along with Muggle borns. He attended Hogwarts and was sorted in Slytherin, where he enjoied the company of many fellows Muggle borns.
In 1931 he came back to Hogwarts as Potions Master, and became chief of the Slytherin’s house. He founded the “Slug’s Club”, into which he constantly invited and served with special treatment particular students with particular stories, who knew important people in the society, who was sone or daughter of famous witches and wizards. He was able to meet Gwenog Jones captain of Holyhead Harpies, from whom he still receives free tickets for Quidditch’s matches, or the Ministry of Magic, or still the predator of Daily Prophet who accept his owl and his option on the daily news.
Besides his club, he tended to treat all his students well, and always respected everybody even if as human-being he had himself his dislikes, in particular towards a student of his own house: Dolores Umbridge who he always had considered an “idiotic woman”.
During 1940 he had the chance to teach to a very particular boy: Tom Riddle, who joined his Slug’s Club not because he had particular contacts in the wizarding world, but because of his skills. Tom ended up as being one of his favourite students, since beside his amazing skills as wizard he was particularly able to prise Slughorn, such as bringing him dehydrated pineapple, even though Dumbledore tried to warn him that Tom was only using him, he never really believed in this, on the contrary he thought that judging Tom this way was completely unfair.
In the 1943 after a dinner with his Slug’s Club, Tom hold over to talk alone with Slughorn, he wanted an opinion regard a dark object he had read about in the restricted section: Horcruxes. At first Slughorn tried to face this as an academic discussion, giving Tom an overview of what they were just thinking that the boy had just some “sane” curiosity, but then the conversation involved in a discussion which scared Slughorn since when Tom understood that to create an Horcrux you must commit a murder, ask Slughorn in how many pieces can a soul be broken.
After Tom left the school instead of picking one of the prestigious careers he had been offered, he started to realise that Tom was probably not was he seemed. When Tom started to ask more and more for the place of Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher, Slughorn stayed closed in his office so that he did not have to meet Tom, when the first Wizarding War started he heard that Voldemort had reached the immortality and after have learned who was behind the mask, he felt terrible guilty because he thought it was his fault for he had told Tom about Horcruxes. He stayed at Hogwarts, which he considered a safer place, even though Dumbledore knew he was hiding something about Tom, he was never able to understand what since Slughorn was an eccellent Occlumens.
During the following years he had the pleasure to teach to many other exceptional student, one of which was Lily Evans, who became one of his favourites, because of her natural skills for potions. When Voldemort seemingly died in October 1981, Slughorn was even happier than most of the wizarding population. He thought that Voldemort’s “death” meant that he never made Horcruxes and that freed him from having to feel guilty about informing Voldemort about them. However, Dumbledore noticed that Slughorn was particularly joyful about something, which made him gently question Slughorn. Feeling that his secret could be revealed, Slughorn resigned from Hogwarts after having taught there for fifty years.
During the following years though, the new that Voldemort hadn’t died reached his ears, and he started to feel terrible sorry again for the mess he had done, and even scared he wished he had stayed at Hogwarts which was for sure safer alongside with Dumbledore. On 27 June 1995, Slughorn was visited by Corban Yaxley who clearly came to recruit him into the Death Eaters. Slughorn quickly transfigured himself into an armchair and was glad when he was successfully undetected, even though he couldn’t understand what could possibly Voldemort wanted from him, since he had all he needed in his rangs.
He wasn’t able to hide forever though in fact in the Summer of 1996 Dumbledore was able to find him while he was hiding in a Muggle house, whose owners were currently on holiday. Despite he had destroyed the house, faking an intrusion he forgot to cast the Dark Mark above it, which was what allowed Dumbledore to find him. He left Horace and Harry alone on proposed, to allow him to lay eyes on Harry, which was what convinced Horace to come back to Hogwarts, along with the promise to have the old Professor Merrythought’s old office. During the year at Hogwarts Harry was charged by Dumbledore to discover the Slughorn’s memory, which he was able to by drinking the Liquid Luck he won in a potion lesson. Slughorn himself declared that he had the chance to use the Liquid Luck twice in his life, and he describe those days as “two perfect days”.
He took part in the Hogwarts battle, and survived it.
Together with the Quaffle and the Bludgers, it constitutes the triad used in the Quidditch game. Its history has old roots, the first apparition is around 1269 when the chief of Wizard’s Council, Barberus Bragge unleashed a Golden Snidget during a Quidditch match, offering 150 galleons to whoever has been able to catch the bird. This practice of chasing Golden Snidgets became quotidianity, putting in danger the bird’s bread. For this reason the bird was subsequently substitute by the Golden Snitch, which provided 150 points to the first seeker that was able to catch it during a Quidditch game. It was invented by a skilled metal-charmer known as Bowman Wright, the Snitch weighed exactly the same as a Snidget, and its rotational wings imitated the bird’s, allowing it to change direction and speed like its living counterpart.
The Snitches have flesh memories and remember the touch of the first person who handled them, in case of a disputed capture. Everyone, including the maker, has to wear gloves when handling the snitch until releasing one for each game. Because of this, a new snitch must be used for each game.
The necessity of a flesh memory was born with the possibility that two chasers caught the snitch at the same time, thanks to the flesh memory the Snitch will recognise who touched him first.
The Warner Bros Production has announced that the shooting of Fantastic Beasts 3 has been postponed at the end of the 2019. Thought originally as a trilogy, after the intervention of J.K. Rowling the film became five: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).
Unfortunately this last chapter of the saga wasn’t loved as the first one since the fans seemed to have found a lot of “holes” in the plot. For this reason the Warner Bros has decided to take more time in the production of the third film, J.K. Rowling will be as always the writer, and David Yates as director.
If before the date of start for the shooting was settled in July, now has been moved non-before than the end of the year. The fans online didn’t take bad this news, otherwise they consider a good move in order to save the saga from an ugly fold. J.K. Rowling never missed a shot, let’s hope that this reflection break will bring her back on the safe road.
In the meanwhile you can follow the discussion of the plot holes here:
He was born on 1st April 1978 from Molly and Arthur Weasley, he has 6 brothers: Charlie, Will, Percy, George (twin), Ronald, and Ginny. He was educated in Hogwarts, which attended in 1989, and was sorted in Gryffindor house. He from the start was recognisable as the funny one, and had a lot of friends like: Lee Jordan, Katie Bell, Oliver Wood, Alicia Spinnet, and Angelina Johnson. On his first year at Hogwarts, he and his brother George stole the Marauder’s Map from Filch’s office. He was really good with really good mark in his first years at Hogwarts, in his second he managed to enter the Gryffindor Quidditch Team as Beater, which he was really good at. His brother George applied and got the position as Beater too, they both used Cleansweep Five broomsticks, and were so good at their job that soon they were renamed the “Human Bludgers”.
In his second year he knew Harry and became friends of him even because he became the Seeker of the Gryffindor’s Team. Around the Christmas holidays, Fred and George got in trouble for bewitching several snowballs to follow Professor Quirrell around, and hit him in the back of the head (they were, of course unaware that they were throwing snowballs in Voldemort’s face). They stayed in the castle for the holidays along with their brothers and Harry, all of whom received jumpers from Mrs Weasley. The jumpers she sent to Fred and George didn’t have their initials on them as Harry’s and Ron’s did, prompting them to call themselves “Gred and Forge”. The twins also dragged Percy away from his fellow prefects, insisting that Christmas was time for family, and stole his prefect badge, much to his irritation.
In his third year he participated at the rescue of Harry with the Ford Angila flying car, Fred helped protect Harry form a rogue Bludger during Gryffindor’s opening match against Slytherin. After Gryffindor won the Quidditch match, Fred went to the hospital wing with the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team to see Harry, because Gilderoy Lockhart had removed all his bones, and congratulated him for his unbelievable flying, but not before seeing Marcus Flint yelling at Draco Malfoy for “having the Snitch on top of his head and not noticing“, of which he informed Harry. During Christmas holiday they were used to make fun of Ginny, unaware that her low mood was caused by the Horcrux. At the end of the school year, Fred was relieved when his younger sister was saved — and delighted when she revealed that Percy had a secret girlfriend, as this was another opportunity to take the mickey out of him.
Arthur Weasley had won a large amount of gold from a Ministry contest, something that was both a surprise and delight for the family. The Weasleys used the money won that summer to take a holiday to Egypt, where the oldest son Bill was working as a Curse Breaker. While there, Fred and George tried to push Percy, who had been acting even more arrogant and pompous than usual, because he learned he had been appointed Head Boy, into a pyramid. Their mother stopped them and scolded them severely. They and their brothers went in all the pyramids. They also annoyed Ginny when she couldn’t go in the last one, most likely because her their mother thought her too young.
During his fifth year, he and his brother George decided that they could give the Marauder’s Map to Harry, since he was “more in need than they were”. Fred and George began inventing magical prank items the summer of 1994, starting with the Ton-Tongue Toffee, which Fred “dropped” near Harry’s cousin Dudley Dursley in order to test it out. This was very successful. During the Quidditch World Cup the gambled all their money with Ludo Bagman, a never-grown up dependent of the Ministry, the gamble was that in the twins’s opinion, Krum would have caught the Snitch, but Ireland would have won the match. When they won the bet, Ludo defaulted on his bet, Fred proposed immediately to inform the Ministry of all his activities.
During their Sixth years the school hoisted the Triwizard Tournament, and so the Yule Ball. Fred was accompanied by Angelina Johnson, and began to try to sell out the products he and George were creating, which were having a great success.
In the summer of 1995, before their final year at Hogwarts, Fred, and George passed their Apparition tests “with distinction”, and while helping to clean up 12 Grimmuld Place they pocketed Doxies for experiments for other products. Harry, who had won the Triwizard Tournament the year before, had given them all the money of the won, to open their own Joke’s Shop. During that year they resume selling and testing their products on first-years who volunteered in exchange for money.
They joined the Dumbledore’s Army, and with their products they gave a hard time to Dolores Umbridge, who will prohibit any Weasley Wizard Weezes product. When the D.A. was discovered later in the school year, Albus Dumbledore took the blame and departed Hogwarts, leaving Umbridge as Headmistress. Fred and George decided that they no longer cared about getting into trouble, and that they were going to cause as much mayhem for Umbridge as possible. When the Inquisitorial Squad was formed and one member, Graham Montague, attempted to dock House Points from them, Fred and George shoved him head-first into a Vanishing Cabinet before he could finish speaking. They set off spectacular fireworks of their own creation, Weasleys’ Wildfire Whiz-bangs, which soon became best-selling products. After taking their disruptive activities easy during the Easter holidays, Fred dropped out of Hogwarts with George in a final act of rebellion against Umbridge. They left in a flourish of vandalism, chaos, and hexing members of the Inquisitorial Squad. A small part of a Portable Swamp created in the corridors by the twins was preserved by Professor Flitwick, as he saw it as a “really good bit of magic“.
They so open the Weasley Wizard Wheezes in Dragon Alley, which became one of the last shops open in Diagon Alley after the raids of the Death Eaters; When Harry, Ron and Hermione went to visit them at the shop, they’ll tell Harry that he would have never paid anything, while Ron who was trying to get a “Family Scount” was charged anyway; That Christmas, the twins stayed at the Burrow for the holidays. When Percy arrived with Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, and it became clear that the two had only come so that the Minister could question Harry, Fred threw mashed parsnips at his older brother, along with George and Ginny, causing Percy to leave swiftly. In 1996, Fred appeared at King’s Cross Station wearing a dragon-skin coat. These are very expensive and Fred was only able to buy it due to the fact that “business was booming”.
During the second battle of Hogwarts, they took part in plan of “The Seven Potters”, they were two of the seven who drank the Polijuice Potion to become Harry, in order to not make him recognisable from Death Eaters, during the transport to The Burrow, George’s ear was shot by a Sectumsempra casted by Snape, There was nothing that could be done about George’s ear, as it had been cursed off with Dark magic. Although initially panicked to the point of being speechless when he saw his twin’s loss, as soon as George started joking about it, Fred calmed down.
During the battle of Hogwarts he as all his family join the castle and the fight, Fred fought next to his brother Percy, who had recently been reconciled with the family and combated his former boss, Imperiused Minister for Magic Pius Thicknesse, transfiguring him. While fighting, Fred was killed in an explosion outside the Room of Requirement. One of the last things Fred heard before dying was Percy joking about resigning from the Ministry. Percy wouldn’t leave Fred’s side until Harry helped him move the body to somewhere safer, coincidentally behind a suit of armour. His body was later moved to the Great Hall, where family and friends then mourned over him.
It was May 2nd 1998.
Principal Traits
While he and his brother may have seemed quite similar they were actually two very different people, here the principal traits of Fred Weasley:
Fred was the instigator
Whenever the Weasley twins did something particularly naughty it always seemed to be Fred who took the lead. When the twins and Ron broke Harry out of Privet Drivein his second year, it was Fred who was driving the flying Ford Anglia. He was usually the one behind even the smaller pranks; Fred was the one who liberated a salamander from Care of Magical Creatures so they could try to feed it a Filibuster Firework, and Fred was the one who ‘accidentally’ dropped a Ton-Tongue Toffee in front of Dudley. It was Fred who had the (unsuccessful) idea to use Ageing Potion to put their names in the Goblet of Fire, and was the first to cross the age line to try it. Fred was also the twin who talked back to Umbridge, and initiated their final flight from Hogwarts.
Fred cracked more jokes and one-liners than George did, and was often the first to imitate and mock his siblings (greeting Harry with an impression of Percy’s pomposity, and asking Ron if he minded not getting a kiss from him for being made prefect – and then challenging Ron to give him detention).
When you read through the books you can see that it was almost always Fred who spoke first, usually a joke or a dramatic comment. He was the front man, the lead singer, the one who first got everyone’s attention.
Australian Potterheads keep your wands ready cause the play of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child has landed even there. Here we can have a look at the cast for the first time:
Here we have the Potters family with: Gareth Revees as Harry Potter, Lucy Goleby as Ginny Weasley, and Sean Rees-Wemyss as Albus.
One thing Sean could’t see the time to hold was a wand, he said an interview that holding a wand is the best feeling ever, and that he had been waiting this moment since the 2005 when he first read Harry Potter and appassionate to them.
And here we have Granger -Weasley Family with: Gyton Grantley as Ronald Weasley, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, and Manali Datar as Rose Granger-Weasley.
Manali spoke about the time-travelling she did herself when she donned the costume: ‘I love the robes, I love getting into character it really helps me feel like a thirteen-year-old, which I haven’t felt like in a while.’
And least but not last, we have the Malfoy family: Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy, and William McKenna as Scorpius Malfoy.
For William, the costume really sealed the deal when it came to inhabiting his character: ‘It feels weird, you can have all your preconceived ideas and you can create the character but once the wig and costume is on, you know, it’s finally like “oh, hello! There he is. There’s Scorpius.”’
This cast I must say it’s actually well done. The boys actually resemble the idea I had about them reading The Cursed Child
Rose actually have the face of a “pain in the ***” girl lol, the one that complains about everything, that follows you around just to let you know you’re not doing it properly, as a matter of fact, like mother like daughter. Scorpius in my opinion is the one whose actors are always quite right. He give the idea of a Slytherin different from the others for the first time in eight films, he has a good face that seems to tell everyone “I’m just trying to get accepted”.
Even the “adults” I think are quite right this time, Hermione Granger actually give me the idea of a career woman, independent, and very strong. While her husband actually seem like the uncle that tries to make everyone laugh with terrible jokes at Christmas. Draco as always impeccable; And the Potters, she really looks like Ginny, and Harry… he seems almost James. Amazing.
Obviously even this time we’d like to give our best wishes to the cast and we are sure that the show will be incredible. To anyone who hasn’t purchased their tickets yet, you can find them here:
The star Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter has recently send a video message a little Gryffindor girl, who is in hospital fighting against cancer.
Giesel Garcia Fomperosa, said Gigi, is a four years old little warrior, who since two has been fighting Limboplastic Leukaemia. Even in her most difficult times Harry Potter never abandoned her, otherwise it has been her strength. She’s a little Gryffindor, house that for sure suits her, since she has courage to sell.
In the video Daniel sent to her, he’s in the backstage of his new show still in progress: The Lifespan of a Fact. He’s sending her all his love and support.
Hi Gigi! It’s a pleasure to meet you through this phone. I hope you’re having a great day, wherever you are. I’m Dan! I’m sorry to be this messed up, and that this place is so noisy, but I want to send you my best wishes and so much love. We’re all thinking about you.
Fred Weasley’s wand is based on a long Pine Cone handle with a few woody nobs on its shaft, 14 inches long; the straight-grained pine wand always chooses an independent, individual master who may be perceived as a loner, intriguing and perhaps mysterious. Pine wands enjoy being used creatively, and unlike some others, will adapt unprotestingly to new methods and spells. Many wandmakers insist that pine wands are able to detect, and perform best for, owners who are destined for long lives, and I can confirm this in as much as I have never personally known the master of a pine wand to die young. The pine wand is one of those that is most sensitive to non-verbal magic.
Despite they’re twins their wands are not alike, George’s wand is 13.5 inches long, and resemble a broomstick. This because he was born to live on a broomstick, he was the best Beater of the two.
“It’s the wand that choose the Wizard.”
And just like any other Fred and George were two different people, Fred was the instigator while George smoothed things over; George was more sympathetic, but Fred was generally funnier; Fred spoke first, and George usually explained later.
Three years after death of Alan Rickman, the fan still commemorate the actor mostly known for his role as Severus Piton in Harry Potter. Countless the fans that still remember him, and that wanted to give him a greeting on January 14th, the date of his departure. At the age of only 69 years old, he left a hole in the film production, as an amazing actor he was, and above all a hole in the heart of his Potterheads.
Most touching of all the memories about Alan we found his “Farewell Lecter” written at the end of the days of shooting, of Harry Potter and The Deathly Allows Part Two, the letter has been published on April 26th 2011 in the Empire Magazine by the same Rickman:
I have just returned from the dubbing studios where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma, and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I also recently returned from New York and while I was there, I saw Daniel signing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in a minute.
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
It is an ancient needs to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it Jo.
He was born on January 9th 1960, to Eileen Prince, and Tobias Snape a Muggle. His father was ofter mean to him, and was used to argue with Eileen, the air at home was often unbreathable and Severus couldn’t wait the end of summer to go back at Hogwarts. He grew up in Spinner’s End a shabby suburb of Cokeworth, this area of town was near a dirty river and full of dilapidated houses, disused factories and broken down street lamps. Through the rest of his life, Severus continued to return there when he was not at school. Here is where he met Lily Evans, after watching her for some time, Severus noticed her evident magical abilities and began making friendly overtures.
He attented Hogwarts in 1971 and was sorted in Slytherin, on the way to Hogwarts for his first year, Severus sat with Lily Evans on the train. While on the train they met James Potter and Sirius Black. This encounter between the three of them revolved around a disagreement regarding what Hogwarts house was the best. This hostile first encounter would set the tone for the antagonism between the three of them for the rest of his life. His showed an attitude for the Dark Arts from the beginning, at the age of eleven he knew more Curses and Hexes than most of the seventh year students, he was also used to get along with a bunch of guys who lately became Death Eaters, including Avery and Mulciber. James and his group of friends were constantly at war with Severus throughout their school years, one recorded memory in the Pensieve bears witness to James bullying him, turning him upside-down to reveal his underwear in front of many students, including Lily. Lily came to Severus’s defence, but this only made things worse: in a subsequent lashing out at James in an attempt to recover his lost dignity, Severus inadvertently called Lily a Mudblood. Lily refused to forgive him for it, even after his repeated apologies. This would forever be Severus’s worst memory. It was seen by Harry in the Pensieve.
Severus noticed that Remus kept disappearing during the full moon and once followed him past the Whomping Willow (after being tipped off on how to do so by Sirius Black) to confirm his suspicions. This act could have cost Severus his life or his humanity (he could have been turned into a werewolf by Remus’s bite) if it had not been for James. When James found out what had happened, he went after Severus and managed to save him just before he got to the Shrieking Shack while Remus was in his wolf-form.
Severus Snape was a very talented wizard, he was particularly talented in one subject: Potions, which was taught by Professor Slughorn, during his lessons Severus, took notes on his school book, notes that create himself, tip for potions, new spells, and also addressed him with a new nickname: Half-Blood Prince. Which was referring to the fact that he was a Mudblood, but was also a tricky game for his mother surname.
Later on his trust fall on Lord Voldemort, and was on his side that Snape face the first Hogwarts battle. He was the one who overheard Sybilla Trelawney’s prophecy, and went strictly to tell it to the Dark Lord, only that he didn’t manage to heard it all, this made the Dark Lord made his principal mistake, consider Harry as his equal, and hunted him down. After learning that the boy who Lord Voldemort believed the prophecy was referring to, he started freaking out at the idea he could hurt Lily, this made him change side, and went to Dumbledore to beg him to keep her safe, unfortunately the Fidelius Charm which Dumbledore advised the Potter to use, was cast upon the wrong person, and Severus found his beloved Lily stone dead on the floor.
After Voldemort’s fall when the trials for the Death Eaters began, Snape was protected by the wing of Albus Dumbledore who guaranteed for him during the years, and told everyone that Severus had changed his side long ago, becoming a spy at his own danger.
When Harry Potter arrived at school Severus couldn’t notice from the first moment his resemblance with Lily, but also with James. This will start a love/hate in Severus towards the boy. Since the first lessons he aimed Harry to take his own revenge on James, embarrassing him in front of the whole class, asking him questions on his first day, knowing too well he couldn’t have known them:
“Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of Asphodel to an infusion of Wormwood?
“Where would you look if I asked you to find me a Bezoar?”
“Which is the difference between Monkshood and Wolfsbane?
Actually it will melt your heart knowing that according to Victorian flower language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning ‘my regrets follow you to the grave’ and wormwood means ‘absence’ and also typically symbolizes bitter sorrow.” If you combined that, Snape’s words mean “I bitterly regret Lily’s death.”
He was a very severe teacher, in fact he didn’t accept students at his N.E.W.T.s unless they took an (O) (outstanding) in their O.W.L.s. As a very skilled wizard he was one of the first to recognise that something was wrong with Professor Quirrell, and one night Harry sneaking out of the dormitory assisted at a fight of the two. More during a Quidditch game he saw that someone was trying to kill Harry by make him fall from his broom, and he was trying without blinking his eyes, to counter-curse and keep Harry alive. He was also one of the teacher who put a defensive task on the way to the Philosopher Stone, Snape’s task consisted in a table full of Potions in a room, where as soon as you got in you remained trapped in Dark Fire. Only one potions would have make you through it, the others where or deadly or just water. During Harry’s second year at Hogwarts he joined the Professor’s Lockheart duelling club, demonstrating once again his skills as a Wizard, first disarming the Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher, secondly evanescing the snake which was confronting Harry.
During Harry third-year, Sirius Black at first believed a heart-less murderer, escaped from Azkaban, remembering the old days Severus will be the first to understand that Remus Lupin, that year Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was helping him inside the castle. He also realised how Harry managed to leave the school even if he didn’t have the permission to leave the castle to visit Hogsmeade, for this reason Harry couldn’t take back his Invisibility Cloak which he had left in a secret passageway, and that was used by Piton the night he reached the Shrieking Shack. Got there he tied up Lupin, and started a vociferous fight with Harry, Ron, and Hermione about sending Black to Azkaban, he also treated them with suspension since they were out of bounds. He was the one on the last day of school who revealed to everyone that Lupin was a werewolf and was forced to resign.
In the fourth year of Harry at Howgarts he will be chose as a Triwizard-Champion without putting his name in the Goblet of Fire, this and the Dark Mark burning will be for Severus and Igor Karkaroff, another repented Death Eater, the first sign of Voldemort returning.
After the Dark Lord return, Snape started to teach Occlumency to Harry, since it was clear that existed a very strong connection between the two minds. He also joined firms the Order of Phoenix at 12th Grimmuld Place, where he often enjoyed to taunt Sirius in not being able to take a side in the battle. One night during a lesson with Harry, after Snape as always had threw his thoughts in the Pensieve, left the office for a while, Harry take a look in the Pensieve at Snape’s memories, witnessing a very private one, Snape returning, grabbed him by the arm and stopped to teach him Occlumency. Durning the year professor Umbridge, charged by the Ministry, tapped into Snape’s private stocks for Veritaserum to interrogate Harry and the Dumbledore’s Army, it was only later on that Snape revealed that on her first attempt to use Veritaserum on Harry, he had given her a false potion, and on her second he faked the Veritaserum end of stock. More over he passed the code-message given him from Harry to the Order’s members, who were able to join the Ministry battle and help Harry defeat the Death Eaters.
During the sixth year Snape finally achieved his goal in life, teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, position that he has been denied until them because Dumbledore feared he could meet once again the pleasure of the Dark Arts. That year his position as Potion Teacher was taken by Horace Slughorn, who accepted to come back at Hogwarts. In this same year Draco Malfoy was charged by Voldemort himself to kill Dumbledore, maybe a task to overcome as revenge on his father who was caught at the ministry and sent to Azkaban; His mother, Narcissa, nor-less Bellatrix’s Sister, the most loyal of the Voldemort’s servants, understood at once that Draco was never going to achieve the goal, and fearing for her son’s life she went to search for help in Severus, with who she stipulate an Unbreakable Vow. There he swore he would have protected Draco, and helped him to reach his target.
Dumbledore who never stopped trying to save Draco from his destiny, has been bitten by a severe curse at his hand during his attempt to destroy the Gaunt’s Ring. This curse would have killed him in the end, and well-aware of Draco’s job, charged Severus to do himself the Killing Curse on him, to protect his role and keep playing his part, and to save Draco’s soul. it was in fact Severus the night of the 30th June 1997 on the Astronomy Tower that killed Dumbledore. During all the year however, Draco tried in various way to kill Dumbledore, first with a cursed necklace bought at Borgin’s and Burkies, and then with a bottle of mead poisoned. Harry who understood, or better suspected, that behind all of this there was Malfoy, cornered him in a bathroom seeing him cry, the two started to fight, and Harry decided that that was the right moment to try “Sectumsempra” the spell he read about in the Half-Blood Prince textbook.
After Snape run to Draco’s rescue, he recognised at once his own enchament and asked Harry to go and grab his own textbooks, and examined them, even if he suspected that Harry had his textbook, he couldn’t confirm his hypothesis since Harry had concealed it the the room of requirement. After the Dumbledore’s murder, he ran away with the Death Eaters, and on his attempt to reach Hogwarts out-of-bounds, he was attacked from Harry, who was furious about Dumbledore’s death, in that moment Harry discovered that Snape was the Half-Blood Prince.
After the Headmaster’s Death, Severus became Hogwarts Headmaster, joined by his fellow Death Eaters, the Carrows were at the head of the discipline, when Harry managed to elude his defences and get into Hogwarts he exploded in a fight with Minerva Mc Gonagall, who was trying to protect Harry. During the fight, Snape cleverly used a shield-charm to knock-out the Carrows, and then fleed from the window. He rejoined Lord Voldemort at the Malfoy’s Manor and passed him the informations regarding Harry’s transport.
The Dark Lord never suspected that Snape was secretly still fighting for the Order, and always trusted him, and considered him one of his most loyal servants. One night, however, the Dark Lord was convinced that he was managing to kill Harry, because the Elder Wand didn’t belong to him, in fact he believed its loyalty was in Snape since he was the one who killed Dumbledore, unfortunately he didn’t considerer that it was Draco who had disarmed Dumbledore in the Astronomy Tower. For this reason mercilessly as always, Voldemort ordered Nagini to kill Snape, to fully possess the wand, and the most eerie thing is that he stayed watching while he was being bitten to death. After the Dark Lord leaved, Harry approached Snape and collected his tears, who he brought to the Pensieve where he discovered all the truth, the man he had so hatred during the years, was one of the reason he was still alive, he discovered Snape’s endless love for his mother, and that they had the same Patronus: a Doe. In that moment he connected that the Doe he had seen on the iced-lake in the forest, was Piton’s trying to guide him to the Gryffindor’s Sword.
This article is dedicated to Alan Rickman, who three years ago joined his beloved Lily, unforgettable Actor, amazing and brave man.
Today guys I wanna discuss with you a scene which could be have passed quite unobserved from many of you, but if you take a better look you might notice someone interesting.
I’m talking about the the scene in which Dumbledore is teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts to this Gryffindor boy:
When the Minister of Magic enter the room and tell everyone to go out, nobody moves, the students only leave the classroom after the instructions of Dumbledore. Despite his orders, before leaving this boy approaches to the Minister and tell him:
It’s the best teacher we have.
Referring of course to Dumbledore, who reply:
Thank you Mc. Laggen.
Have you heard this name before? I’m sure you have. Cormac Mc. Laggen made his first apparition in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he requested to enter in the Gryffindor Quidditch team as Keeper, but was then beaten by Ron. He also took part at the Slugclub, since he claimed that his uncle Tiberius was a very influential person in the ministry of magic, who when went to Hogwarts joined the Slugclub too.
So is this young Gryffindor, Tiberius Mc. Laggen? The “so-important” uncle that guaranteed Cormac a place in Slughorn’s grace, or is him Mc. Laggen Senior?
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