"The mind is not a book, to be……" — Severus Snape

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

— Severus Snape

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31 Quotes by Severus Snape

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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…
Fascinating though your social life undoubtedly is, Miss Granger, I must ask you not to discuss it in my class.…
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…
Moronic though some of this class undoubtedly are, I expect you to scrape an 'Acceptable' in your O.W.L., or suffer…
The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time…
Another ten points from Gryffindor. I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he…
DON'T CALL ME A COWARD
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…

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