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"How extraordinarily like your father you are, Potter. He too was exceedingly arrogant. A small amount of talent on the Quidditch field made him think he was a cut above the rest of us too. Strutting around the place with his friends and admirers ... The resemblance between you is uncanny."

- Severus Snape's assessment of Harry Potter

"The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible."

- Severus Snape's teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts

"You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince!"

- Severus Snape revealing his past pseudonym and accomplishments

"I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -"

- Severus Snape to Albus Dumbledore on the planned fate of Harry Potter

"Albus Severus, you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin. And he was the bravest man I've ever known."

- Harry Potter's high opinion of Snape's character "Look . . . at . . . me. . .."

- The last words of Severus Snape, staring into the eyes of Harry Potter.