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Throughout the books, fans had plenty of strong feelings about Severus Snape, the Potions master who’s hated Harry from the moment they first met. While those were already complicated by the fact that ...

With the Harry Potter HBO series now confirmed to be in production, many fans are wondering who will play Professor Severus Snape in the upcoming TV show. With Alan Rickman delivering an incredible ...

Dumbledore’s definitely gay — J.K. Rowling confirmed it ages ago. But is Snape transgender? Some Harry Potter nerds think so. The Tumblr Snapeloveposts is so dedicated to the theory that it’s hosting ...

The Harry Potter book series has enchanted audiences around the globe. Since its 1997 publication, it's sold hundreds of millions of copies, breaking all sorts of records along the way. To this day, ...

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Our Reddit detective Der_Gottkaiser has two main reasons for believing Snape is alive in Harry Potter: First, that he didn't appear when Harry used the resurrection stone, and second, that Snape's ...

Was Severus Snape hot? This is the million-dollar — or perhaps, million-Galleon — question that sits at the heart of the Harry Potter franchise and plagues Reddit to this very day. Per J.K. Rowling’s ...

Look, I am not — nor will I ever be — #TeamSnape, but even I am a little bit emotionally compromised by this. Tumblr user tomhiddles, who is clearly a more faithful Potterhead than all of us combined, ...