Is Snape really that ugly?
Though out the books he is portrayed as an ugly, greasy, hooked nose man.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Someone could be the most beautiful/handsome person in the world, but if we hate said person, they will be ‘ugly’ to us.
In the POV of Harry, of course, Snape is ugly. Harry hates him more than anyone.
Even some of the most handsome characters are described as ugly once by the narrative Harry.
Tom Riddle: ‘The smile had gone from Riddle’s face, to be replaced by a very ugly look.’
George: ‘I think we’re well shot of him,’ said George, with an uncharacteristically ugly look on his face.
Fred: ‘It’s not my fault I didn’t,’ said Fred, with a very ugly look on his face,
Sirius: But he had no opportunity to do so, and, eyeing the ugly look on Sirius’s face.
A few scenes in Harry’s POV of Snape’s description.
The Whomping Willow - He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose and greasy, shoulder-length black hair,
The Triwizard Tournament - On Professor Sinistra’s other side was the sallow-faced, hook-nosed, greasy-haired Potions master, Snape – Harry’s least favourite person at Hogwarts.
The Weighing of the Wands - Harry imagined picking up his cauldron, and sprinting to the front of the class, and bringing it down on Snape’s greasy head
The Egg and the Eye - Harry could see a vein flickering horribly on Snape’s greasy temple.
The Madness of Mr Crouch - leaving Snape standing next to the gargoyle and looking twice as ugly.
Occlumency - ‘I think I’d prefer it if you didn’t give orders here, Snape. It’s my house, you see.’ An ugly flush suffused Snape’s pallid face.
Now let’s go over to Snape’s POV.
No longer does the story show Snape as an ugly man. The usual gratuitous descriptors of his ugliness—the mentions of the hooked nose and the greasy hair during standard exposition—are now gone from the narrative.
Now that Snape is separated from Harry, he is no longer ugly. His face is described as “thin” in The Halfblood Prince and The Deathly Hallows, rather than hook-nosed and sneering.
Spinners End - A man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes. - No hooked nose, no greasy hair, no ugliness.
The Dark Lord Ascending - The other chapter in Snape's POV has no comments at all upon his looks.
The Princes Tale - memories.
His black hair was overlong and his clothes were so mismatched that it looked deliberate:
Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy. There was undisguised greed in his thin face as he watched the younger of the two girls swinging higher and higher than her sister.
‘Definitely,’ said Snape, and even with his poorly cut hair and his odd clothes, he struck an oddly impressive figure sprawled in front of her.
Lily had reached a pillar and leaned against it, looking up into the thin, sallow face.
‘You refuse to tell me everything, yet you expect that small service of me!’ snarled Snape, and real anger flared in the thin face now.
Now lets go back to The Order of the Phoenix - In Snape's Worst Memory - where the narrative describes Snape very differently from how they do in The Princes Tale
His hair was lank and greasy and was flopping on to the table, his hooked nose barely half an inch from the surface of the parchment as he scribbled.
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