"You might be laboring under the delusion that the entire wizarding world is impressed with you," Snape went on, so quietly that no one else could hear him (Harry continued to pound his scarab beetles, even though he had already reduced them to a very fine powder), "but I don't care how many times your picture appears in the papers. To me, Potter, you are nothing but a nasty little boy who considers rules to be beneath him."
Harry tipped the powdered beetles into his cauldron and started cutting up his ginger roots. His hands were shaking slightly out of anger, but he kept his eyes down, as though he couldn't hear what Snape was saying to him.
"So I give you a fair warning, Potter," Snape continued in a softer and more dangerous voice, "pint-sized celebrity or not -- if I catch you breaking into my office one more time --"
"I haven't been anywhere near your office!" said Harry angrily, forgetting his feigned deafness.
"Don't lie to me," Snape hissed, his fathomless black eyes boring into Harry's. "Boomslang skin. Gillyweed. Both come from my private stores, and I know who stole them."
This is from the Goblet of Fire during a potions class after the Second Task. I love this quote because Snape is at his worst -- I mean best.
He's so scary at this part... I mean, he's practically radiating hatred. And Snape is one of those people that makes menacing sexy. This is why I always imagine Alan Rickman as Snape when I'm reading. When you imagine it in his voice, everything is just so amazing.
I can just imagine Snape bending over my table in potions class to tell me something, and muttering it so quietly that he has to get an inch from my face so I can hear him... I wouldn't even care if he was punishing me. I would just lean forward a little... Or pretend I was knocked forward on accident, just so I could kiss him.
Aside from his sexiness in this scene, I can really tell how angry he is. I mean, Harry just reminds him so much of James, and he has to freaking protect him. That just sucks.
And the last part of it was in the film adaption... sort of. Snape was in his storeroom, and Harry walked by, and Snape was all, "Not something found in your everyday garden... Ah, what is this?" And then when he's accusing Harry of stealing, he says, "Boomslang skin... Lacewing flies." But that's wrong, because Lacewing Flies aren't even in his private stores- you can find it in the student cupboard.
But he still says "Don't lie to me." n the movie, which makes me shudder everytime I hear it.
