My favourite Snape Video

This is my all time favourite. I am sure you all know it: Snape Snape Severus Snape, Snape Snape Severus Snape, Snape Snape Severus Snape Dumbledore...

My Favorite Snape Quotes

"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach"

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

"Well, well, Lupin. Out for a little walk... in the moonlight are we?" Snape being funny :)

"You might be laboring under the delusion that the entire wizarding world is impressed with you."

"Oh, very good....Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. 'Ghosts are transparent."

"Veritaserum. Three drops of this and You-Know-Who himself would spill his darkest secrets. The use of it on a student is, regrettably, forbidden. However, should you eve steal from my personal stores again, my hand might just slip over your morning pumpkin juice. "

"Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class. Ten points from Gryffindor."

"You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason."

"Don't go blaming Dumbledore for Potter's determination to break rules. He has been crossing lines ever since he arrived here."

Appearance

Hair: Black and greasy, at the height of the shoulders.
Eyes: Black.
Complexion: sallow also described as white or pale.
Distinguishing features: long hooked nose, dark mark on his left forearm, not always visible.
Clothes: Black robes.

Descriptions from the books:

"A teacher with greasy black hair, hooked nose and sallow skin".
"His eyes were as black as Hagrid, but did not emit the same heat. They were cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels".
"Uneven, yellowish teeth".

Meaning of the Name "Severus Snape"

Birth name:

Severus Snape.
Meaning of 'Severus':

Severus = obvious connotations of severity. Possible allusion to a Roman emperor, Lucius Septimius Severus, who built Hadrian's Wall. There are several saints called "Severus."
Meaning of 'Snape':

JK Rowling has said that "Snape is an English village" probably located in North Yorkshire near Hadrian's Wall. This town has Snape Castle. There is another village called Snape near Saxmundham, northeast of Ipswich.
Other names:

'Sev', used by Lily. 'Snivellus', used by his school enemies James Potter and Sirius Black to insult him. He called himself the Half-Blood Prince, referring to his mother's maiden name and his mixed blood.