Alan Rickman Snape

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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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  Daniel Radcliffe's Touching Tribute to 'Professor' Alan Rickman Snape

  "As an actor he was one of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me like a peer rather than a child. Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career," Daniel Radcliffe wrote in a tribute to Alan Rickman on social media

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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"

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  Alan Rickman, Harry Potter's Severus Snape, Dies at 69

  Mr Rickman leaves behind him a legendary body of work spanning screen, TV and stage. His earliest successes came with theatre roles in productions of The Seagull and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Hollywood stardom followed soon after, with breakthrough roles as terrorist Hans Gruber in 1988 hit Die Hard

• 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!