This Harry Potter scene was truly about Snape, we’ve simply realized

As soon as a e book or film collection reaches its conclusion, usually after years, it’s enjoyable to return and discover clues or Easter Eggs which give hints concerning the ending. In Harry Potter, one factor you are able to do is locate a number of the horcruxes buried within the pages of a lot earlier books. One other factor is discovering clues about Snape’s love of Harry Potter‘s mom Lily, and his inherent goodness.

Harry’s dad and mom Lily and James meet at Hogwarts, however Lily dislikes James for a very long time. James and his pals Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew (collectively referred to as the Marauders) bully fellow scholar Severus Snape, and James has an enormous ego as a result of he’s good at Quidditch.

Whereas James finally matures and Lily falls in love with him, you would query whether or not they had been actually soulmates. Lily truly knew Snape for a very long time earlier than they even acquired to Hogwarts, as Snape lived near Lily and her sister Petunia. Snape loves Lily from an early age, and this, mixed along with his hatred of James, has big repercussions on Harry’s life. All the time.

A Reddit consumer has simply identified they’ve simply observed one thing within the fifth e book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This e book comes earlier than the Half-Blood Prince, during which we discover out much more about Snape’s backstory. Aunt Petunia is aware of what dementors are as a result of; “I heard — that terrible boy — telling her [Lily] about them — years in the past.”

Harry assumes ‘that terrible boy’ is James. “When you imply my mum and pop, why don’t you utilize their names?” Petunia ignores him and appears ‘horribly flustered.’ Petunia didn’t know James as a boy, and barely knew him as an grownup both, as a result of she despised her witch sister and was estranged from her. It’s way more probably that ‘that terrible boy’ is their childhood neighbor Snape.

Take a look at our information to the perfect Harry Potter characters, the place you’re positive to search out the difficult Snape. You’ll in all probability additionally have an interest within the Harry Potter plot holes that we’ve discovered. See should you agree with our rating of the perfect Harry Potter villains.