I don't think it was worry, I think he was sad because Professor McGonogal was his friend and colleague and she didn't know that he was actually on their side. She was fighting him as an enemy and he couldn't break character or his mission would've failed.

i dont remember this in the movies. was this Half Blood Prince?

it's from Deathly Hallows part 2.

no, it's from Partly Hemoglobin Nobleman

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he was a occlumency badass. he would literally enter the mind of the opponent and know what attack was going to come next by hearing them think it, and then reposte it accordingly. so he always knew what his opponents were going to do before they did it. he was a very powerful combat duelist.

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what about when voldemort straight murdered his ass with a snake

voldemort was also a very powerful occlumence, and likely always had his mind blocked from penetration, snape wouldnt have been capable of seeing what voldemort was planning. he had no idea voldemort intended to kill him until it was too late. once the snake was set on him he had no way of combating it, the snake was impervious to any attack snape could use.

***** . Occlumency is the blocking of your mind. You're thinking of Leglimency.

you're right my bad

That's some real **** right there.

Holy **** .

he had to be good at occlumency because voldemort would enter the minds of hhis subjects to make sure they were loyal to him, snape had to be able to trick voldemort in these situations, because if he didnt voldemort would see snapes true identity as an ally to dumbledore. he had to be capable of tricking one of the most powerful dark wizards to ever live, on a daily basis.

this is why other death eaters dont **** with him, he is second only to voldemort, maybe even stronger in some ways. the death eaters know this which is why none except bellatrix dare to show distain towards him for his years at hogwarts.

Not much of a duel when he doesn't strike back though. Seems more like he knew he was outmatched and managed to hold on long enough to escape.

Guy had taught beside her for years, presumably became good friends with the woman, his wince was probably more like "Oh, no Minerva, I don't want to have to hurt you too"

That's what I got from it anyway.

>>#17,

>>#14, Hard to say. He never wanted to hurt Harry, sure, but I bet you he would have gladly done James, Sirius, or Lupin. He was a dark, dark dude, with pretty much his only redeeming quality his love for Lily. If he hadn't loved her to the extent that he did, he probably would be banging Bellatrix. He was full baddie until Voldy went after the Potters, as harry witnessed in the memory.

snape was never really a "dark" dude. yes he was a death eater but i feel he did that not because he had a hatred for muggles and halfbloods.

he never had a true family. he had no real friends, except lily. when lily decided to date snapes bully and hang out with snapes bullies (a seriouslly **** thing to do to be honest) he had nobody then. then lucious malfoy befriends him, and suddenly hes got friends, people respect him, people stop treating him badly. he finally feels like he belongs somewhere, and when these new friends say "we're joining voldemort" he follows because he doesnt want to be alone again. he wants to prove hes strong to his new friends and he does, becoming one of the strongest death eaters alive.

if he hadnt been with lucious malfoy and his lot he wouldnt have joined the death eaters, not of his own choice. he was a lonely young guy who jsut wanted to belong. its the same thing which gets young people into gangs, the sense of purpose of family, of belonging.

God damn, you're going make me go on a binge watch of the entire series now.

It was also partially his own infatuation with the dark arts. It was stated pretty plainly in the books that he was enthralled by them and while everyone else was learning to simply to defend against them he was trying to learn everything about them so he could master them, even going so far as to invent his own spells (Sectemsempra being the best example). I think it's pretty safe to say that it's at least a small part of the reason he fell in with Voldemort, he likely thought there was no one alive who knew the dark arts better and probably figured he could learn a thing or two from them.

Not saying he was a muggle/mudblood hater, he was definitely not in the death eaters for the same reason as most of the others, but in a sense he was still a "dark" character.

The books and the movies present two very different characters. No offense to Alan Rickman, he's a great actor, but the books play him like a villain with a few redeeming qualities, while Rickman plays him as a heroic triple agent that simply resents the protagonist. Arguably a much better character, but probably not what Rowling intended for him to come across as.

rowling has stated that Allan rickmans portrayal of Snape is one of the more accurate portrayals of her characters.

he doesnt really resent harry, not as much as he shows. he simply has to be mean to harry so that there's no suspicion on the death eaters side of him. if when voldemort returned everyone noticed snape treated harry kindly theyd be asking him why and wouldnt trust him, and his cover would be blown.

he acted cruel so that if voldemort returned he could say "look ive been treating him like **** all this time i do not like them, im a death eater"
there was SOME resentment from snape, but he didnt hate harry. sometiems harry would upset him because when he looked into harrys eyes he saw lilys, everyday at hogwarts harry would be a reminder of his failure and that could make him slightly annoyed at harry for being there. the guy still risked his life to protect harry almost every year.