Harry Potter is the everyman figure,the eyes of the audience. But it’s Rickman’s pitch-perfect Professor Snape who is the beating heart of the storyWhen the sad news of Alan Rickmans passing hit the internet on Thursday, his name quickly climbed Twitter’s trending topics, and as did the names of several of his most distinguished characters. However,for those not steeped in the lore of Harry Potter, the film franchise that made Rickman familiar to millions of younger people since it began in 2001, and one of those trending phrases would gain seemed baffling: #Always”.
It’s taken from the key moment for Rickman’s character,Professor Snape, the anti-hero of JK Rowlings seven-book series on which the films are based, or the point that reduced many of us to floods of tears.
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Source: theguardian.com