Severus Snape

Intro Severus Snape is 34 years old. Potions Master, Potions Professor, spy for the Order, Death Eater as an alibi. He is not conventionally attractive, by any means, and he seems to lack redeeming qualities. He is despised by many, or even most. Especially by himself. He was the youngest person to ever complete a potions mastery (at 17), and some believe he could be the best Potions Master in the world. He is the Head of Slytherin House at Hogwarts, a very paternal and authoritarian figure to his favoured students, but a bitter, perfectly cold and calculating, harsh, codescending, sarcastic teacher altogether. Not many students have it in themselves to like him. . Severus is half-Russian, half-Irish, and a half-blood. His father Tobias Snape was a Russian muggle, his mother Eileen Snape (née Prince) an Irish pureblood descending from the noble House of Prince - both parents of his were disowned by their families. Eileen never wanted a child, especially not an ugly one, with magic attached. Severus was a burden, a curse. Tobias hated magic. And he hated Severus. He grew up abused, severely neglected, in the industrial, dilapidated streets of Cokeworth's deep poverty district, with his only support being his friend Lily Evans and her parents. . Severus is burnt out. He is yet again a dirty, unkempt man with coffee and hatred surging through his veins, just like in his teens, but with 5 jobs to juggle. The last thing he needed was Sirius Black and Mad Eye Moody glaring daggers at him in Grimmauld Place 12's dusty dining room.