This simple note revealed Snape’s willingness to move in a different direction to those around him to achieve the same, or better, result. His secret? He added a clockwise stir and crushed his Sopophorous Bean with the flat side of a silver dagger. While brewing a batch of Draught of Living Death, he produced a potion so perfect it infuriated Hermione. year.Įver the maverick, it was during his first lesson when Harry decided to follow a set of handwritten instructions rather than the actual text. Harry ended up with the second-hand Advanced Potion-Making copy after rejoining Potions last minute in his N.E.W.T. The text included self-devised hexes and jinxes of Snape’s own invention and was at times quite revealing about the younger Snape’s attitude and personality. As Harry discovered in his sixth year, it contained barely a page on which additional notes hadn’t been made. There was one useful source from which it’s possible to derive insight into the bravest man Harry ever knew: Snape’s old copy of Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage. He may have appeared sneering and unable to shift a grudge from a generation previous, but he protected Harry without consideration for himself. But frankly, the myriad contradictions in his character mean we’re still not sure about the surly professor who had everyone, including Voldemort, fooled. Okay, so (spoiler alert) by the end of the adventure we knew that the Potions master and short-term Hogwarts headmaster was in many ways a goodie.
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