JK Rowling apologised for killing off Snape
JK Rowling has been saying sorry to her fans for the past couple of years, on May 2, for brutally killing off some characters during the clash between good and evil which took place in her book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, according to the Telegraph.
In 2015, she apologised for killing off Fred Weasley, one of the Weasley twins, while in 2016 she apologised for the death of werewolf Lupin, who had just become a father. This year, however, she expressed her sorrow for Severus Snape: “OK, here it is. Please don’t start flame wars over it, but this year I’d like to apologise for killing (whispers)… Snape,” the author wrote in a Twitter post.
OK, here it is. Please don't start flame wars over it, but this year I'd like to apologise for killing (whispers)… Snape. *runs for cover*
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 2, 2017
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Severus Snape was a beloved and complex character, who was a Hogwarts potions master and a deep-rooted enemy of Harry Potter. He turned to Voldemort at a young age, but later changed his mind, when he found out that the powerful wizard wanted to murder Harry’s mother, the only woman he had ever loved. Trying to save her, he turned traitor and began working for Dumbledore. He resumed his role as a spy when the Dark Lord returned to power, but lost his life when Voldemort wrongly believed that killing him would make him the true master of the mystical Elder Wand. The years of sacrifice Snape had made were revealed to Harry only after his death, by watching his former teacher’s magically extracted memories.
Snape was played by Alan Rickman, who died in January 2016. The actor had revealed that, before the publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, JK Rowling had shared a part of Snape’s secret with him.
“She gave me one tiny, little, left of field piece of information that helped me think that he was more complicated and that the story was not going to be as straight down the line as everybody thought, Rickman said in 2011. “If you remember when I did the first film she’d only written three or four books, so nobody knew where it was really going except her. And its was important for her that I know something, but she only gave me a tiny piece of information which helped me think it was a more ambiguous route.”
After the death of Rickman, Rowling made clear what she had told the actor: the meaning of the word “always”, which Snape utters when he reveals to Dumbledore that he had always loved Harry Potter’s mother.
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