Something magical happened when the Harry Potter movies cast Alan Rickman as Snape. Suddenly readers everywhere stopped seeing him as the book villain and nothing more, and instead they started to ...

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Even as a student, Snape is ahead of his time. While in school, he invented spells, including Levicorpus and Sectumsempra, and amended procedures to improve various potions (Just look at his ...

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You may think you know the meaning of professor Snape's Patronus, but even Potterheads don't realize the whole story One of the most poignant moments in both the Harry Potter book series and films is ...

The Harry Potter book series has enchanted audiences around the globe. Since its 1997 publication, it's sold hundreds of millions of copies, breaking all sorts of records along the way. To this day, ...