"Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."
-Epilogue, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The title of this post is actually the combinations of the names of the two greatest tragic heroes in fiction I have known, J K Rowling's Severus Snape and Sharatchandra's Devdas. About Snape I think I know a lot and Devdas I have not read yet but the life and tragedy of Snape was no less than Sharatchandra's immortal character. So just to give the non potter maniacs reading this blog a brief introduction to the great lover Severus Snape I write the following lines.
An all those who are not familiar with potter world let me give a brief introduction. Like our world; Harry Potter's magical world had a flaw the discrimination of people based on birth. A person of muggle (non magical) parentage was considered to be inferior to someone with wizard blood. This was like racial discrimination in South Africa or the caste system still prevalent in our India. Harassing someone for a thing beyond his or her control. Now as muggle parentage was considered a bane muggles were considered as an inferior race altogether. Muggle hunting was also proposed as sport. And like our world there were people fighting both for it and against it. The good guys naturally were against it. Lord Voldemort the main antagonist of the story is portrayed as a self hating bully; he himself being of half muggle parentage started a campaign against the muggle born people or mudbloods (used as an abusive word). His followers were known as the death eaters. The people resisting it from within the wizarding world rallied under Albus Dumbledore under another secrete organization named the order of the phoenix.
Dumbledore apart from being a great wizard was also the headmaster of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, the center of education for all the young magical population of England. And Dumbledore was said to be the one Voldemort ever feared.
Now wizards have a game known as gobstones and Hogwarts had a gobstones club. In the late 1960's the president of this club was a girl named Emmline Prince who eventually married a muggle named Tobius Sanpe. Snape was unaware of the fact that ms Prince was a witch and was shocked upon the revelation(as far as I know) however they continued to live together. They had a son who was named Severus.
With the birth of Severus Sanpe I take your leave and promise that will soon complete this tragedy all of whose rights are owned by Ms. J K Rowling.
Until then
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