--- title: Alan Rickman: Remembering Harry Potter Actor Who Played Snape description: The death of Alan Rickman hits especially hard because we’ve already had to say goodbye to Snape once. canonical: https://time.com/4180502/alan-rickman-dead-snape-harry-potter/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-14T16:04:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:43.497Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Alan Rickman’s Snape Is the Professor Who Lived og:description: After all this time? 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So we rooted for Harry Potter when he crept around Hogwarts after dark, even with the potions professor’s dark shadow looming. And we conspired with Ron, Harry and Hermione as they debated his role in the Order of the Phoenix. But after we learned more about the bullied young man with “cold, black eyes” who longed for Lily Potter, our hearts opened up. The [death of Alan Rickman](http://time.com/4180354/alan-rickman-dead/)—who inhabited the character of Snape over eight Potter films—hits especially hard because we’ve already had to say goodbye to Snape once. Many of us cried at the end of the series, when he offered his tears for Harry to take to the Pensieve, giving Harry—and as such, us—his memories, the truth, about why Snape’s love blinded everything in his wake. _More:_ [_Here’s How Harry Potter Co-Stars Paid Tribute to Alan Rickman After His Death_](http://time.com/4180432/alan-rickman-death-harry-potter-cast-reactions/) Snape taught readers to think twice. This was evident in the books, but also in the films as Rickman so perfectly captured the terror and mystery of a conflicted villain. Nothing is more frightening than not knowing if you can trust someone, and then learning you were wrong all along. It was from Snape that we learned to see that Albus Dumbledore has flaws, especially when Snape accused him of raising Harry as “a pig for slaughter.” Just months ago, J.K. Rowling [used Twitter](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/27/jk-rowling-harry-potter-snape) to explain the complexities of the character. “Snape is all grey. You can’t make him a saint: he was vindictive & bullying. You can’t make him a devil: he died to save the wizarding world,” she wrote. “Snape didn’t die for ‘ideals,’” she wrote. “He died in an attempt to expiate his own guilt. He could have broken cover at any time to save himself, but he chose not to tell Voldemort that the latter was making a fatal error in targeting Harry. Snape’s silence ensured Harry’s victory.” _More:_ [_Fans Pay Tribute to Alan Rickman by ‘Raising Their Wands’_](http://time.com/4180498/alan-rickman-tribute-raise-your-wands/) Snape’s long-suffering silence also resulted in some of the series’ lighter moments. And Rickman’s multidimensional version of him, the scary tightness at his jaw in the first film when he tells Harry to “turn to page 394,” kept us smiling, because we knew—however much we wanted to pretend otherwise—that there was more to Snape than met the eye. ### Alan Rickman: A Career in Pictures  Die Hard, 1988. 20th Century Fox  Truly, Madly, Deeply, 1990. BBC Films  Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 1991. Warner Bros.  Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, 1996. Getty Images  Dogma, 1999. Lionsgate  Galaxy Quest, 1999. DreamWorks Pictures  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 2001. Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images  Love Actually, 2003. Universal Pictures  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2007. DreamWorks Pictures  The Butler, 2013. The Weinstein Company And, boy did we learn. Rickman’s perfect portrayal of one of the millennial generation’s most loyal and conniving antiheros will keep us forever thinking twice about judging people at first glance. Severus Snape may have died a complicated, misunderstood man whose main legacy lives on in the middle name of one of Harry Potter’s children. But to Potter fanatics who grew up with him on screen, Severus Snape will forever be Alan Rickman, who painted such a vivid picture of what was living in our imaginations. Our children and their children will watch the Potter movies in fear of him, in disgust of him and, eventually, in awe. They’ll turn to us wide-eyed, just as we were when we learned the truth, and say, “After all this time?” And we’ll say, “Always.” Alan Rickman: Remembering Harry Potter Actor Who Played Snape ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4180502/alan-rickman-dead-snape-harry-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4180502/alan-rickman-dead-snape-harry-potter/"},"headline":"Alan Rickman’s Snape Is the Professor Who Lived","datePublished":"2016-01-14T16:04:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:43.497Z","description":"After all this time? 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