Blog Post #2 Snape

I think at the start of the Harry Potter series I personally viewed Professor Snape as a threat and someone who was going to bring Harry down. I think that he is an important character and someone who is misunderstood at first. He is someone who is built up as a villain and its not until you end the series where you see who he really is. You start to see that the trauma that Snape has been through when he helps Harry try and block his memories from Voldemort, and you see how Harry’s dad use to bully Snape around when they attended Hogwarts. In the Half Blood Prince, Snape starts off on a bad note when he is visited by Bellatrix and Mrs. Malfoy and makes Snape take the unbreakable vow to help protect Draco in his task that Voldemort has asked him to carry out which ultimately leads to Snape killing Dumbledore, and begins a very important relationship with Harry. I think that Harry and Snape’s relationship throughout this series is very important part of this series because Harry really does learn from Snape even if he doesn’t realize it and if Snape thinks he has never taught Harry anything. In the Half Blood Prince, Harry uses his book to make a lot of potions, as well as a lot of unknown hex and jinx that were written in this copy of his book, that Snape later reveals was his. There are a lot of similarities between these too, almost as much as Harry has with Lord Voldemort. We don’t see Snape’s loyalty to Harry until the last book when Nagini bite’s Snape leading to his death and Snape releasing his memoires for Harry to see. I think this is the most important part of Harry and Snape’s relationship because Harry gets to see Snapes relationship with his mom, and that Snape befriended her during their years at Hogwarts, as well as the fact he was originally placed in Gryffindor with his parents. Harry sees how in love Snape was with Lilly and went to Dumbledore to try and protect his parents from Voldemort even admitting that he was in love with Harry’s mom Lilly. You see that Snape really did try and protect the Potters and did not have bad intentions, and even when it came to killing Dumbledore it was for his own good, because he was cursed and that would eventually had killed him. Harry and Snape’s relationship is a rocky one and I think that Snape was probably the most underestimated character in this series because he is looked at like the bad guy when really he seemed to turn out a kind of hero and mentor to Harry.