Snape Quote of the Week #24

  But whether James really did take off Snape's pants, Harry never found out. A hand had closed tight over his upper arm, closed with a pincerlike grip. Wincing, Harry looked around to see who had hold of him, and saw, with a thrill of horror, a fully grown, adult-sized Snape standing right beside him, white with rage.
  "Having fun?"
  Harry felt himself rising into the air. The summer's day evaporated around him, he was floating upward through icy blackness, Snape's hand still tight upon his upper arm. Then, with a swooping feeling as though he had turned head over heels in midair, his feet hit the stone floor of Snape's dungeon, and he was standing again beside the Pensieve on Snape's desk in the shadowy, present-day Potions master's study.
  "So," said Snape, gripping Harry's arm so tightly Harry's hand was starting to feel numb. "So... been enjoying yourself, Potter?"
  "N-no..." said Harry, trying to free his arm.
  It was scary: Snape's lips were shaking, his face was white, his teeth were bared.
  "Amusing man, your father, wasn't he?" said Snape, shaking Harry so hard that his glasses slipped down his nose.
  "I--didn't--"
  Snape threw Harry from him with all his might. Harry fell hard on the dungeon floor.
  "You will not tell anybody what you saw!" Snape bellowed.
  "No," said Harry. getting to his feet as far from Snape as he could. "No, of course I w--"
  "Get out, get out, I don't want to see you in this office ever again!"
~Order of the Phoenix, Ch. 28 "Snape's Worst Memory"

I can't even imagine how angry Snape is when he finds out that Harry has seen his worst memory. I mean, he never wanted Harry to know anything about him and Lily, and when he just looked at them, knowing Snape would have killed him for it... And once again, the movies downplayed his anger, just like they did at the end of HBP. However, Alan Rickman's face in that scene, when he grabs Harry by his robes and is all, "Get... out..." is just perfect. I feel so sorry for him.

And I love that Snape throws a jar at Harry after this. It really shows how even Snape can lose his cool at times, and made all of us realize just how angry he was.

Oh, and I just realized that Hogwarts is a place where it's okay to give students alcohol as well as physically abuse them. Awesome.