What is the story behind Severus Snape and Hogwarts?
Severus Snape was born to a pure-blood mother, Elieen Prince,
and a muggle father, Tobias Snape. His parents fought constantly
while he was growing up and Snape always tried to escape from it.
He knew all about the wizarding world and was a wizard himself. He
also began to notice Lily Evans, a girl who lived near him, had
magical powers to.
Eventually he worked up the courage to tell Lily what she was
and though the first meeting didn't go as well the two met again
and soon became friends. Snape was always in love with Lily. He
told her all about Hogwarts and how they would be going.
When they did go to Hogwarts he was upset when Lily wasn't
placed in Slytherin and instead went to Gryffindor house where she
met James Potter and Sirius Black who would spend the next seven
years bullying Snape.
His friendship with Lily began to deteriorate over the years as
she didn't like the people that he was friends with due to their
cruel nature and involvement with the Dark Arts. Snape was very
jealous of James Potter who fancied Lily and over the years asked
her out many times.
Sirius Black almost killed Snape who was always curious about
Remus Lupin. Sirius told Snape to look at the Whomping Willow and
how he could enter it. James found out what Sirius has done and
stopped Snape, saving his life, but not before Snape discovered
what Remus was. Dumbledore swore him to secrecy.
In his fifth year, Snape lost Lily when he called her a mudblood
after she tried to help him. She refused to speak to him again and
his involvement with the Death Eaters become deeper.
Snape joined the Death Eaters shortly after leaving school and
was no doubt heartbroken when Lily decided to marry James. In 1980,
Snape overheard part of the prophecy and told Lord Voldemort about
it. He soon regretted it after he learned that Voldemort intended
to kill Lily as it was her son whom the prophecy spoke of.
Snape went to Albus Dumbledore and told him what would happen,
in return for their protection, Snape joined the Order of the
Phoenix as a double agent. He told Voldemort that he was spying on
the Order for the Death Eaters. In reality, he was spying on the
Death Eaters for the Order and would only tell Voldemort certain
information which Dumbledore wished him to know.
After Lily's death, Snape promised to help protect Harry
although he hated him and was reminded each day that Lily had
picked James over him.
Snape killed Dumbledore in 1996 on his orders, he then protected
Hogwarts and was killed by Voldemort. He asked Harry to look into
his eyes while he was dying so that the last thing he would see
were Lily's eyes.