Thursday, June 23, 2011

Snape Says Goodbye

I wasn’t going to post today but I found this on the ‘net, cried a little, and had to share it. Read it and you’ll see what I mean.

This is from the June issue of the British magazine Empire. It is Alan Rickman’s (Snape) goodbye letter to the Harry Potter franchise.



No one could have brought Snape to life as well as Alan Rickman. He conveyed more emotion in one look that most actors could with pages of dialogue. The story needs a great storyteller yes, but he helped to bring the story to so many more children and adults who would never have read it otherwise.

We hated you and loved you, Professor. But most of all...we will miss you.




8 comments:

  1. That is very cool. And like ;you said, he did portray plenty with one look. He was a brilliant Snape, no question. I also liked him in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves as the villain, mean and funny at the same time!

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  2. I agree. I love Alan Rickman, and I loved that letter. :) I think I cried a little when I first read it too.

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  3. It's always strange when one of these "eras" comes to an end. I don't know what some people are going to do after the last movie comes out. :(

    Did you know I went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter last February? There are some pics on my blog. It was amazing. We kept thinking while we were there that they should have Snape walk around to keep people in line and behaved. Kids (and adults) would FREAK.

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  4. Wow. What a lovely letter, and what massive impact the stories have had in so many people's lives. My cousin, who's 21, said that Harry Potter is pretty much her entire childhood.

    Love Alan Rickman.

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  5. I read this the other day. So beautiful and sad at the same time. What a trip it's been. With the announcement of Pottermore today, I feel a tad better, but it will be sad not to wait hours on line for the next Potter movie.

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  6. I read this on another blog a week or so ago. How rare is THAT? You never see actors credit the book authors for creating characters...they always talk about the directors, screenwriters, etc., but the creator of the story seems lost when a movie originates from a novel.

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  7. A pretty good actor. Richard from the Amish community of Lebanon county.

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  8. Wow yeah, Snape. He was perfect in the book and the movie. He was my fave villain in the early books. And then I was all topsy-turvy with the rest of the world in the is-he-good-is-he-bad phase. And then, the final twists. I am going to miss Harry Potter. All of it.

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