Severus Snape (JKR)

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Snape is fun to write, because he is a deeply horrible person. [FE-99]



Snape is loosely based on a sadistic teacher she had. [WBUR-99]



JKR: "everyone should keep their eye on Snape, I'll just say that, because there's more to him than meets the eye...." [WBUR-99]



JKR thinks that that the thought of Snape in love is a "very horrible idea" and is stunned that someone wonders if Snape might fall in love. We will find out why in book 7. [WBUR-99]



‘Snape’ is an English village [eT-00]



Why did you make Quirrell the bad guy instead of Snape? JKR: "Because I know all about Snape, and he wasn’t about to put on a turban." [AOL-00]



Why does Professor Dumbledore allow Professor Snape to be so nasty to the students (especially to Harry, Hermione, and Neville)? JKR: "Dumbledore believes there are all sorts of lessons in life ... horrible teachers like Snape are one of them!" [Y-00]



Snape is about 35 or 36 years old. [BBC-01a]



JKR: "You shouldn't think [Snape is] too nice. Let me just say that. It is worth keeping an eye on old Severus Snape, definitely." [RAH-03]



Dumbledore thought the DADA job would "bring out the worst in Snape." [RAH-03]



Alan Rickman on what Snape is like: "There’s such still waters in there." There is a lot of stuff we don’t know about because JK hasn’t told us; Rickman knows a couple of things we don’t. [H-03]



JKR "doesn't think" there is a link between Snape and vampires. [WBD-04]



JKR: "Sirius loathed Snape (and the feeling was entirely mutual)." [WBD-04]



Telling us Professor Snape's patronus and boggart would give too much away. [WBD-04]



Dumbledore has heard and believes Snape’s story as to why he should be trusted. [WBD-04]



Snape's ancestry has been hinted at; he is not Muggle born [JKR does not explicitly say he is pureblood]. [EBF-04]



JKR jokingly tells us that she finds it depressing that we love Snape and her bad boys. [EBF-04]



Alan Rickman believes Snape isn’t that taken with Harry. "probably because he finds him a little too popular for a first year pupil, I suppose." [Un-?]



Alan Rickman: "I think at heart Snape is basically quite an insecure person, he’s always longing to be something else that people will really respect like a black magician not just a school master. That's why he envies the more popular and successful boys like Harry. He does have a positive side though, even though Harry's a thorn in his side he doesn't let it worry him too much." [Un-?]



If a teacher is head of a Hogwarts house, we can assume they were in that house, that goes for ghosts as well. So Snape was "very definitely" a Slytherin. [JKRfaq-04]