What You Need To Know About Severus Snape

• Severus Snape (9 January, 1960 – 2 May, 1998) was the son of the witch Eileen Prince and Muggle, Tobias Snape. 
• Rowling has described Snape as a gift of a character.
• Rowling has described Snape as a gift of a character.
• Snape taught Potions because he was based on JKR's chemistry teacher that she was most disliked.  
• The chemistry teacher who has been claimed as a major inspiration for the character of Severus Snape is called John Nettleship. 
• Rowling borrowed Snape's surname from the village of Snape, Suffolk.  
• Snape was one of JKR's favourite characters to write. 
• After the publication of PoA, there was one female fan who guessed Snape loved Lily, making JKR wonder how she had given herself away.  
• Because Snape abandoned his post, a portrait of him does not immediately appear in the Headmaster's office following his death. Harry lobbied to ensure that Snape's portrait be installed in the Headmater's office after Snape's death.
•  Harry made Snape's true loyalty and heroism known in the Wizarding world 
• JKR had planned Snape's back story ever since she wrote the first book because the whole series is built around it  
• Rita Skeeter published a book about Snape's life, entitled "Snape: Scoundrel or Saint?", sometime after his death. 
• Severus means “stern” in Latin, and is the root of the English word “severe”.  
• Snape is one of the youngest teachers to be recruited at Hogwarts school. 
• Snape attended Hogwarts exactly twenty years before Harry Potter.  
• Lily Evans may have grown to love Snape romantically if he wasn't so drawn to the Dark Arts. 
• Snape's role:
  told Voldemort of the prophecy -> begged Voldemort to spare Lily -> enabling her to sacrifice her life for Harry -> enabling the protection that protected Harry for so long -> led to Voldemort's death.  
• Snape is the only Death Eater who could conjure a Patronus. 
• Alan Rickman was the only actor who knew about his character's fate way before the 7th book was released.  
• Dumbledore allowed Snape to be a horrible teacher because he believed there are lessons in life & horrible teachers are one of them. 
• Dumbledore never gave Snape the DADA job before the book 6 because he was afraid it would bring out the worst in Snape.  
• Severus Snape's last words to Harry were simply "Look at me", to see Lily Evans' eyes once more before he died. 
• Harry gave one of his sons the middle name Severus, and this son was the only one who had Lily's exact eyes.