Alan Rickman Death

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  When The World Mourned: 10 Extraordinary Lives That Left A Mark

  From transcendent political figures to royals of pop music, this year, the world mourned the last of many extraordinary lives. Their names are etched in history as legends, but many of them left a little too soon. Their reminiscences will live on to shape the future in many spheres. Here's list of 2016 Hall of Famers who had the world dwell on the ...

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  BAFTA 2016: Saeed Jaffrey, Alan Rickman, David Bowie Remembered

  Saeed Jaffrey's most notable international performances are in The Man Who Would Be King, Death on the Nile, Sphinx and A Passage to India. The actor was paid tribute in the obituary section alongside Alan Rickman, Maureen O'Hara, Omar Sharif, David Bowie, Ron Moody, Frank Finlay and Christopher Lee

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  Why Alan Rickman Signed up as Snape, as Explained by J K Rowling

  "I told Alan what lies behind the word 'Always'." J K Rowling was alluding to a scene in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows where Professor Dumbledore asks Snape if he has "grown to care for the boy (Harry Potter), after all" and Snape then shows him his Patronus, which is a doe, a reflection of Lily Evans Potter

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  Alan Rickman's Goodbye Letter to Snape is Being Shared by Fans

  "A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes," reads a line from a letter Alan Rickman wrote back in 2011. He was saying farewell to his Harry Potter character Severus Snape but it couldn't hold truer now for fans across the world who are mourning the actor. Mr Rickman died at the age of 69 on January 14.

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  To Alan Rickman, With Love and Respect From Harry, Ron, Hermione

  Professor Snape may have scared the bejesus out of most of his Hogwarts pupils but between takes, he couldn't have been kinder. As fans raised their wands to honour Alan Rickman, his colleagues from the franchise paid tribute to their late co-star. Here are tributes from those who took Potions lessons from the Half-Blood Prince

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  Alan Rickman, The 'Funny, Generous' Man Behind Severus Snape's Mask

  In contrast to Alan Rickman's often sneering and supercilious screen persona, fellow actors lamented the death of a warm, witty and generous friend. Actor Ian McKellan said Mr Rickman and Rima Horton were always top of his "dream-list dinner guests". "Alan would by turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous"

• Harry Potter franchise crosses $7 billion

  Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has had a record breaking run in the first week.

• Fans dress up like Potter to bid farewell!

  Fanatical fans are queuing up for the last movie by sporting black cloaks, witch hats, and magic wands!