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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.06 | Smallfolk

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“We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.” — Minerva McGonagall

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it dont even feel like june it dont even feel like any month we just floatin thru time

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This scene is the greatest thing. Sure, he’s snarking about poisoning Potter, but he doesn’t. This is the Potions Master of Hogwarts, a man so brilliant he was re-writing his textbook at 16 years of age. He wouldn’t just run out of Veritaserum. So here he is, lying through his teeth to the woman who at this point runs the school, has the backing of the Ministry, and could probably get him fired (or far worse) in a heartbeat, all to protect Lily’s son, and he comes up with a clever, witty line to deflect suspicion while he does it. He then believably denies understanding Harry’s cryptic message, yet understands it perfectly and goes to warn Dumbledore as soon as he’s free of Umbridge.

No one on this Earth, especially not me, would suggest that Severus does not have very serious flaws, but you have to admit he is brilliantly badass.

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My favorite part about this scene is that it also contrasts Snape with Umbridge and provides the reader with some further insight into how Snape operates (i.e the incongruity between what he says and what he often does and how he can be more bark than actual bite). In book four, Veritaserum is first mentioned when Snape threatens to slip some into Harry’s pumpkin juice when he suspicions him as being the one stealing from his potions storeroom. Importantly, while Snape may threaten it, he never actually does it.

Flash-forward to book five, and we’re presented with a teacher who invites Harry to her office for tea and really does attempt to slip Veritaserum into his drink. Notably, Umbridge does not threaten Harry with Veritaserum first, she simply acquires what is a Ministry controlled substance from Snape to use on Harry without him ever being aware. Significantly, the only reason that she fails is because Snape provides her with a fake potion and on her second, more brazen attempt to use it on Harry he denies having more on hand.

Snape, the teacher who made a show of threatening Harry with Veritaserum the year before, undermines Umbridge’s attempts to use it on Harry not once but twice. That is the contradiction between words and actions that characterize Snape in a nutshell. What he says cannot always be trusted to form an accurate assessment of his character –to really understand Snape the attentive reader must always keep a close eye on what he does.

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Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman behind the scenes of Prisoner of Azkaban practicing scenes together before Alan is snapeafied

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Imagine that you have purchased your first chocolate frog and you are very excited about the wizard card. And lucky- you got Severus Snape… and he’s like: