If by better you mean less evil, than no, Moody wins. snape is not all bad. :]:] <3 <3
Faster than severus snape confronted with shampoo
Professor Severus Snape! Also, Dolores Umbridge (probably less than Snape, although she was quite evil).
He can never be considered a good person but he did fight for the Order of the Phoenix rather than the Death Eaters.
Albus Dumbledore wouldn't let Professor Snape teach Defence Against the Dark Arts because he was worried it would lead him back into his old ways. Dumbledore also know the position was curset so that nobody could hold the title for more than one year, and he needed Snape in the school.
No. Severus Snape is noted for being rather unattractive with greasy black hair and a hooked nose. Snape is slightly more attractive in the movies than he is supposed to be and Alan Rickman, the actor who played him, is often considered to be an attractive man outside of his role as Snape.
Yes, Severus Snape died in Dethly Hallows. Voldemort realized that he wasn't the true owner of the Elder Wand because Snape killed its previous owner (Albus Percival Wulfrock Brian Dumbledore). Therefore, Voldemort had Nagini bite Snape on the neck, killing him.Source: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/potter7 and my own knowledge of the books
The Half-Blood Pince was a name Snape choose for himself. HIs father, Tobias Snape, was a muggle and he despised magic so much that he constantly fought with his wife while neglecting his son. Severus Snape spent most of his childhood listening to his parents screams or staying out of the house to avoid them.When he joined Hogwarts, the other students noted that his name was not that of a wizarding family. Snape wasn't ashamed of being a half-blood but he was ashamed of his father. So he used his mother's maiden name, Prince, and fashioned a new nickname for himself - although he kept it to himself.
when James potter was at hogwarts, yes, he was a teen boy who had a huge ego that bounced around in his head. so at times he could be a jerk. James was used to getting what he wanted when he wanted it. so when he wanted entertainment he would pick on snape. when he wanted a girlfriend, he chose lilly. but all of a sudden, he wasn't getting what he wanted; lilly didn't like him. so he did what he knew what to do; to pick on snape.
Voldemort always wanted to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts but Dumbledore refused to give him a job. Voldemort then cursed the position so nobody could hold it for more than one year. In the 1991/1992 school year he shared Professor Quirrel's body. Quirrel taught Defence Against the Dark Arts.
He was worried that it would make him interested in the Dark Arts again, besides the position is jinked so that a teacher cannot have the job for more than a year. Dumbledore didn't want something to happen to Snape whom he needed.
Snape grew up in extreme poverty with his parents, Eileen and Tobias Snape, who appear to have had a bad, and possibly abusive, relationship. We get to see them very briefly in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when Harry accidentally breaks into Snape's mind and sees some of his childhood memories. One of the memories he sees is Snape's dad yelling at Snape's "cowering" mom (USA Scholastic hardcover edition, p592). They are also mentioned in the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, "The White Tomb," and again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, during "The Prince's Tale" chapter.
It is a doe because Snape always loved Harry's mother, Lily, and her patronus was a doe. His never changed as he always loved her, as shown in the final book. Lily's patronus is a doe as it is complimentary to James Potter's stag.