Snape's love for Lily is often considered obsessive and problematic, but there are hints in Harry Potter that his feelings have been misrepresented.

You have your mother’s eyes,” a dying Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) tells Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in 2011’s Harry ...

While Snape's unwavering dedication to Dumbledore was admirable, his actions were motivated by his love for Lily Potter,the ...

Because of this, few dark wizards can conjure them. As far as readers and viewers know, Snape was the only Death Eater to cast a Patronus spell throughout the series. Snape anonymously sent a ...

Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the kids in seventh year and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be Death Eaters." 5 We learn here what may ...

Unlike the relationship between Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Dumbledore's relationship with his followers wasn't based on fear and bribery. Snape wasn't Dumbledore's lap-dog, nor was he his slave.