Severus Snape

For your information Potter, Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, a Bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant which also goes by the name of Aconite. Well, why arent you all copying this down?

— Severus Snape death

There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I dont expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few...

— Severus Snape science

Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I dont want to do this anymore?

— Severus Snape mind

Im afraid you have used up all my stores interrogating students, the last of it on Miss Chang. Unless you wish to poison Potter - and I assure you, I would have the greatest sympathy if you did - I cannot help you.

— Severus Snape path

Read it, control it, unhinge it. In the past it was often the Dark Lords pleasure to invade the minds of his victims, creating visions designed to torture them into madness. Only after extracting the last exquisite ounce of agony, only when he had them litterly begging for death would he finally... kill them. Used properly, the power of Occlumency will help shield you from access or influence. In these lessons I will attempt to penetrate your mind. You will attempt to resist. Prepare yourself! Legillimens!

— Severus Snape death

Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!

— Severus Snape mind

Oh, very good, Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

— Severus Snape education

Look...at...me... The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, bland, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.

— Severus Snape dark

Your sister doubts me. Over the years Ive played my part well, so well Ive deceived one of the greatest wizards of all time.

— Severus Snape time

Dumbledore *is* a great wizard. Only a fool would question it.

— Severus Snape great

You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? Yes. Im the Half Blood Prince.

— Severus Snape you

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper deathif you arent as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.

— Severus Snape death

Or maybe, hes waiting to hear why you two didnt arrive on the school train.

— Severus Snape school

Dont go blaming Dumbledore for Potters determination to break rules. He has been crossing lines ever since he arrived here.

— Severus Snape sin

You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason.

— Severus Snape good

Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an Acceptable in your O.W.L., or suffer my... displeasure.

— Severus Snape doubt

DONT CALL ME A COWARD!

— Severus Snape war

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

— Severus Snape mind

The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him. Only those skilled at Occlumency are able to shut down those feelings and memories that contradict the lie, and to utter falsehoods in his presence without detection.

— Severus Snape men

You just... know? Once again, you astonish me with your gifts Potter. Gifts mere mortals could only dream of possessing. How grand it must be, to be the chosen one.

— Severus Snape dream

Run along, Wormtail!

— Severus Snape

If the Dark Lord has forbidden it, you are not to speak...

— Severus Snape dark

I cant change the Dark Lords mind. But it might be possible for me to help Draco.

— Severus Snape change

Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class. Ten points from Gryffindor.

— Severus Snape life

The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.

— Severus Snape time

Another ten points from Gryffindor. I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

— Severus Snape you

Harry Potter - Our new celebrity.

— Severus Snape

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