Severus Snape

[montavilla47]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "VimesLady" <VimesLady at ...> wrote:
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> The first sign we had in the movies, I think, that Snape is a
> complicated character, was in the first movie.  Although he seems to
> hate Harry on sight, we learn at the end of the movie that Snape was
> muttering a counter-curse that probably saved Harry's life when Quirrell
> cursed Harry's broom.  We also saw him in a whispered, threatening
> conversation with Quirrell. So we know he is not just a cruel professor
> who hates Harry, but that he has some insight into the attacks by the
> Dark Lord.
>
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I'd say the first sign that Snape is a complicated character is that he's played
by Alan Rickman.  As Emma Thompson once said, he be mysterious reading
the phone book.

I can't come at it completely from the movie angle, because I read the first
two books before seeing any of the movies.  But I do remember one
moment from the first movie where Snape yells at the Trio for being
inside.  He tells them to go outside or someone will think they are
up to.... something.  It's a very odd reading.

Also, they include moments like him trying to hide his bloody leg after
the troll incident and threatening Quirrell.  Those moments signal that he's
more than a simple teacher (or even simply a nasty teacher) at the
school.

Montavilla47