Severus Snape Quotes

• Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an ‘Acceptable’ in your O.W.L., or suffer my… displeasure.

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

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

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• Or maybe, he’s waiting to hear why you two didn’t arrive on the school train.

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• 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.

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• I can’t change the Dark Lord’s mind. But it might be possible for me to help Draco.

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• If the Dark Lord has forbidden it, you are not to speak…

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• Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I don’t want to do this anymore?

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• Discipline your mind!

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• The Dark Lord, for instance, almost always knows when somebody is lying to him. Only those skilled at Occlumency are able to shut down those feelings and memories that contradict the lie, and to utter falsehoods in his presence without detection.

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• Run along, Wormtail!

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• Which one of you can tell me the difference between an animagus and a werewolf?

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• Do I detect a flicker of fear? Ah, yes. The Dementor’s Kiss. One can only imagine what that must be like to endure. It’s said to be nearly unbearable to witness, but I’ll do my best.

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• Dumbledore *is* a great wizard. Only a fool would question it.

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• Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!

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• Read it, control it, unhinge it. In the past it was often the Dark Lord’s pleasure to invade the minds of his victims, creating visions designed to torture them into madness. Only after extracting the last exquisite ounce of agony, only when he had them litterly begging for death would he finally… kill them. Used properly, the power of Occlumency will help shield you from access or influence. In these lessons I will attempt to penetrate your mind. You will attempt to resist. Prepare yourself! Legillimens!

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• I’m afraid you have used up all my stores interrogating students, the last of it on Miss Chang. Unless you wish to poison Potter – and I assure you, I would have the greatest sympathy if you did – I cannot help you.

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• DON’T CALL ME A COWARD.

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• How touchingly paternal, Black. Perhaps Potter will grow up to be a felon, just like his godfather!

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

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