Hello, yes, we are very sorry if you were not prepared to get all fkn devo again about the loss of Alan Rickman (bawls), but J.K. Rowling has just revealed how she convinced him to take the part of one Severus Snape.
Remember, back when Rickman signed on to the first movie (released 2001), only the first three Harry Potter books had been released, and Snape’s character was mostly a bullying toad who threw a temper tanty when Sirius Black escaped at the end of Prisoner of Azkaban.
Not, you’ll agree, quite a meaty enough character for a thespian of Rickman’s standard, no?
Both Rickman and Rowling have hinted in the past that in order to convince him to take the part, she let him in on a few key secrets that the rest of the world wouldn’t know until the end of Deathly Hallows.
And even though we now KNOW Snape’s full story, we didn’t know exactly what it was that Rowling had revealed – until Twitter user @sarahrosefrank asked her yesterday.
Yes. (SERIOUSLY?) “Always,” is an answer Snape gave to Dumbledore when he was asked: “Lily… after all this time?” Harry saw this scene in the pensive after Snape’s death while looking at Snape’s memories, and it reveals Snape’s eternal, undying, and unrequited love for Lily Evans, who is obviously Harry’s mother, and explains his entire tragic history in one word: that Snape may have succumbed to the side of evil, but it was his love for Lily that brought him back to the side of good, and in fact he was a secret agent for Dumbledore and fighting FOR the Order all this time, and he still loved Lily, and in turn, loved Harry.
@jk_rowling Will you tell us the piece of information that you told Alan Rickman about Severus Snape? Or will that forever be a secret? 🙂
— Sarah (@sarahrosefrank) January 18, 2016
You emotionally ready for this?
I told Alan what lies behind the word ‘always’. https://t.co/NHTJ5J6kxb
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 18, 2016
Hi P.TV, can you explain this to me real quick because I have FORGOTTEN?
Yes. (SERIOUSLY?) “Always,” is an answer Snape gave to Dumbledore when he was asked: “Lily… after all this time?” Harry saw this scene in the pensive after Snape’s death while looking at Snape’s memories, and it reveals Snape’s eternal, undying, and unrequited love for Lily Evans, who is obviously Harry’s mother, and explains his entire tragic history in one word: that Snape may have succumbed to the side of evil, but it was his love for Lily that brought him back to the side of good, and in fact he was a secret agent for Dumbledore and fighting FOR the Order all this time, and he still loved Lily, and in turn, loved Harry.
*sobs uncontrollably*
