This was the decade of Lord Voldemort’s first rise to power, and the student body at Hogwarts reflected the turmoil of the larger world. Students in other years included Regulus Black, Lucius Malfoy and Bertha Jorkins. Their other classmates included James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and the children of the Death Eaters Avery and Mulciber.

Severus and Lily attended Hogwarts together from 1971 to 1978, but Severus was sorted into Slytherin and Lily was sorted into Gryffindor. In spite of her blood status, he innocently hoped they would both be put in Slytherin House, which he believed was house for the brightest students like themselves. When he was about 9 years old, young Severus discovered another magically gifted child at the neighbourhood playground, and fell in love with green-eyed Lily Evans’s generous nature and her daring - and tried to forget that she was a “Mudblood”, a Muggle-born witch. Tobias Snape frequently unleashed his anger on his wife, and Severus, their wizard child, was neglected or worse. The Snape household at Spinner’s End in an industrial part of northern England was not a happy one. Severus Snape was the half-blood only child of Tobias Snape (a Muggle), and Eileen Prince Snape (a witch). Snape’s regret over the death of his lost love, Lily Evans, kept him going as a double spy till the end of his life. Although he was a Death Eater at one time, he became a member of the Order of the Phoenix working secretly against the Dark Lord after meeting with Dumbledore on the Windy Hilltop in 1980 to warn him of an impending attack on the Potter family. Snape was a conundrum to all who know him: sarcastic and hard on his most vulnerable students, yet respected by his colleagues Dumbledore’s confidante and healer, yet also apparently his murderer. He was personally killed by Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. Severus Snape was Potions Master, Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and Head of Slytherin House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry he succeeded Albus Dumbledore as Headmaster.

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