Severus Snape Quotes

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• Harry Potter - Our new celebrity.
• 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…
• Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class. Ten points from Gryffindor.
• Or maybe, he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train.
• Don't go blaming Dumbledore for Potter's determination to break rules. He has been crossing lines ever since he arrived here.
• "You have a habit of turning up in unexpected places, Potter, and you are very rarely there for no good reason.
• Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an 'Acceptable' in your O.W.L., or suffer my... displeasure.
• The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts…
• Another ten points from Gryffindor. I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch…
• DON'T CALL ME A COWARD
• The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.
• Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!
• 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…
• You just... know? Once again, you astonish me with your gifts Potter. Gifts mere mortals could only dream of possessing. How grand it must be,…
• Run along, Wormtail!
• If the Dark Lord has forbidden it, you are not to speak...
• Your sister doubts me. Over the years I've played my part well, so well I've deceived one of the greatest wizards of all time
• I can't change the Dark Lord's mind. But it might be possible for me to help Draco.
• You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? Yes. I'm the Half Blood Prince.
• Has it ever crossed your brilliant mind that I don't want to do this anymore?

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