Snape is probably in love with Lord Voldemort (or just obsessed).
I think he might fall in love with a death eater that sounds right?
I am still conremplating whether Snape is good or evil If he turns out to still be on the good side (i hope) he may love one of the order.

so many possible candidates!

Snape will almost definately not fall in love. Not everyone can fall in love in the books and snape is too cruel and cold-hearted to ever find love. However, if he did I would like it to be Belatrix Lestrange. Then we can have a which side will he go for kinda thing. Hopefully he'll pick harry's side and end up killing Belatrix and he will end up being nice. That, however, is very optemistic and he blatently wont fall in love

The way I perceive Severus Snape is as a cold, pitiful soul who hates himself and those around him. There are some people who harp on their woes, but do nothing to rectify them, to make them better. I'd go so far as to say that these people, and I include Snape here, are in need of some psychiatric therapy.

IF Snape has ever been in love, it may have been with Lily. She was the only one that showed him kindness. But then, - in his mind - she betrayed him by marrying James. And, we all know that there is no love lost between James and Severus!

Even those people who choose to live without a significant other in their lives, are most likely happy with their chosen life-styles. They don't go around projecting misery like Snape does. I feel sorry for Snape, I don't wish his kind of life on anyone. As to who will Snape fall in love with? I don't think he will ever fall in love, not with his attitude and low self-respect/esteem.

I think Snape will probably fall for Bellatrix. Either that or some old school sweetheart.

i always thought that snape liked lily a lot and i think he did but now that shes dead how come he didnt go for anyone else?...hes always seemed closed up sort of and i think theres still more to find out about him more that we didnt find out in HBP but if he does like anyone else i think its someone we know because theres no space in the book to have so much more new characters but thats what i think

I'm one of those crazy nuts that is partial to a Snape/Hermione SHIP.

They are both extremely intelligent, exceedingly good with their studies and subjects, organized, etc.

The difference in their personalities could very well be due to their life experiences. Hermione came to school as a social outcast, just like (as I think we can all agree) Snape did. Now, when Hermione was in her first year, if it weren't for her friendship with Ron and Harry, she would have probably continued to be an outcast. Snape was not as lucky. No one reached out to him. He was alone, and stayed that way through his entire time at Hogwarts.

I think this could definitely happen. I see Hermione as the only possible example of Snape's intellectual equal. Who else is there? Not many others could fill her shoes.

I really feel that this could happen... in fact, I'm writing a story about it . And, if it doesn't... oh well... cause I will still believe it could!

i must say that you have written a very compelling argument. although i have to say, i disagree i don't think it could happen. they are too much alike

Snape? In love? Someone loving him back? Goodness that person must be desperate. Lol aww no I love snape even if no one does. He is one of my favourite characters. Somehow I just can't see Snape and anyone being together. Nope. I don't think love suits Snape.

Touche, megan elise smith, very good point there. They are very much alike. And, as far as what we've seen so far, she does not go for people that are "like" her. Sure, Viktor was intelligent (even though no one knew it), but he was a glory hog. He was athletic, and shy about his knowlege. So, they weren't really all that similar to begin with... were they ?

As for Ron, two people couldn't be more different. Lazy vs. Ambitious, Careless vs. Studious, etc., etc. What we all have to remember is that Hermione is only 16. She is growing up and is changing her mind on what she wants in the opposite sex. She has already done it once... who is to say she won't do it again?

I think that, in the end, she will crave someone that can meet her on an intellectual level. We already see her becoming exasperated when she has to explain things to Ron and Harry. Wouldn't it be nice to discuss things with someone that also understood them?


All I have to say here is... Snape needs a hug .

this idea came to me this days:what if narcissa and snape(as you know they were in the same year)were at some point in the past inlove?maby that's why snape helps her and draco with completing the task given by voldemort?there's a sentence that made me wonder:"His black eyes were fixed upon Narcissa's tear-filled blue ones as she continued to cllutch his hand"pag 40 hbp.i don't know what this is suposed to mean,maby it's just nothing but i think it could be an enteresting idea:snape + narcissa..........i don't know what to say about draco.it would be stupid of me to say that draco may be snape's son(someone on this forum sayd something about snape having a son)but i just won't go in that area,at least not know(althought it would explain a lot of things)...............................................................i don't know what alse to say but i thing i should say that i make mistakes to....

I have a feeling that Lily felt sorry for Snape, and therefore started to have an emotional attachment for him during school. However, I think she's a pretty smart lady, and figured out that he had major issues stemming from the abusive household that he grew up in, and ended up never falling in love with him, but at least being sympathetic towards him. We have to understand also that growing up in a household such as Snape's would make it impossible for him to express love in a normal way that you and I might be able to. Therefore, my vote is for this scenario:

Lily defends/befriends Snape, and they discover a mutual admiration for each others work, and therefore the bond becomes deeper than friendship on at least one side (Snapes, I think she reminds him of his mother, and he falls in love with her). He goes over to the dark side as a rejection of Lily after she ends up with James (probably something to do with him saving Snapes life?), but realizes after her life is in danger from his passing on knowledge to Voldemort that he still loves her, and that is what eventually turns him into "The Spy Who Loved". This is the basis for Dumbledore's trust in Snape as well, because Dumbledore always believes in love, doesn't he.

I'm sure some of us have been in situations where there has been a young man who is not necessarily someone we would fall for, but he falls for us anyway. Maybe this person is your friend, and you let them down easy because you don't want to ruin a friendship, and I think this is what happened between Lily and Snape. Of course this could be my own misguided interpretation based on my own life experiences, but what do I know really?

Time will tell . . .

Great thread by the way.

I think Snape's heart is made of stone and he's unable to fall in love, however he may use a mysterious potion to enchant some nice looking girls. It'd be something like him. He'd be an infelxible hero, not paying even a bit of attention to his enchanted lovers - perfect role for him. And I forget to mention the person Snape loves above all but he Mustn's Be Named .

i think it would be good if he feel in love with someone and they with him. and hopefully the person could soften him because he is how he is because of his past etc. i think a snape and some one couple would be strange because he doesn't seem that character but at the same time it seems likely . . . yes it would . . . snape and narcissa?

Snape is angry annoying dark the list goes on.........

If he finds someone like him it would be perfect (I wonder who is like snape )

He might fancy someone really beautiful but would never go out with him in a thousand years

I do hope (for some reason) he finds someone but I dont no who.

I donno who in the world Snape will fall in love with. To me, he kind of appears like Voldemort. Both uncapable of love and secretly in it for themselves. Friendless. But if JKR says that he will fall for someone it probably is someone we don't know of yet...i have no idea. What i do know is that it definately DEFINATELY cannot be Hermione. That is Ron's girl.

You people who think Snape will fall in love with HERMIONE - no way! That'd be too perverte. She's like 16 years old! HELLO?! And Snape is in his late thirties or something...

It will most definatly be a teacher. I just know it.
I know... Professor McGonagall! Wouldn't that be just hilarious?

Professor Mcgonagall? Lol. That is just too crazy to think of though, if it had to be a teacher I'm pretty sure it would be her. But I kinda pictured her to be with Dumbledore. Lol. I donno...

no way.....i never woulda thought that J.K would let him fall in love... but then again just because he falls for someone doesn't mean that they will fall back, right?

but hey, more power to the crazy man. to tell you the truth i think it might be Narcissa....but that's just me.

i really like the idea of him falling in love though. of all people to fall in love, Snape deseves it the most i think.

Snape capable of love? Why yes, I think he could be but to only one person...

I will not say my idea of who this person my be until the end, first I will explain what I think has happened to him...

1. Snape perhaps loved someone but he lost that person in someway or another which would explain why he is so miserable, maybe he has never got over the loss of his women/girlfriend/wife.

2. Snape loves someone but because of circumstance he had to let her go or she had to leave, again he has never got over the loss and this explaines his personatily.

One person who would fit into idea 2 would be someone like Narcissa, perhaps she loved Snape but had no choice to leave him because she was a 'Black'. She had to marry a 'pure-blood' but Snape was and is a 'half-blood'. So Naricissa married Lucius Malfoy in order not to betray her family name resulting in getting burnt off the family tree in the Black household. I have heard there is a theroy that Draco is Snape's son this idea that I have (I know others think it too) would make the puzzle fit together...

I read a few of the posts in thisthread, and I don't find my personal theory to this topic, so here it is:
I think the next Datda-teacher could be a woman and because Snape is a good guy he will return to Hogwarts as soon as the others know what I already know And then he will meet now-Datda-teacher-but-soon-Mrs.Snape and they will fall in love. There must be a new person, because I don't belive in the Narcissa-theory and another person we already know is impossible for me too.
I believe Snape always was that way, I think the whole thing which was between his parents had shaped him to what he is.

I think that when Snape went to school with Lily and James he loved Lily. But something like she turned him down and James knew it. But James also liked Lily, and asked her out and she said yes! I beleive thats why James and Snape were the way they were to each other. I also think thats why he hates Harry, because he thinks that could of been his child...

If it hadn't been for the murder of Albus (honor him) I would've liked to se something between Severus and Madame Rosmerta the owner of Three Broomsticks... It would've been to see the look on Rons face if it would've been that way...

Erm... do you really need me to say who I want Severus to end up with? *points to signature*

Ah, Snanger. How I love thee. Honestly, once she's out of school, she's up for grabs. In fact, she's 17... almost 18... and he's no longer a professor (at least one can assume that now that he has murdered Dumbledore and gone into exile), so why not?

Because Hermione is in love with Ron?

Anyway, I agree with Guin. I've thought for a long time, even reading the books on my own, that Snape loved Lily. He's more than happy to make snide comments to Harry about James, why doesn't he ever have a bad thing to say about Lily? An what about Sirius, or Lupin? Espically Sirius, why didn't Snape say stuff to Harry about Sirius, the one who was responable for the set-up of what could of been Snape's death. It's making fun of James all the time with Snape.
I don't think anything went on between Narcissa and Snape, Draco looks to much like his father to be Snape's kid.
Who could Snape fall in love with now, asuming he's still alive at the end? Well, I think a character that hasn't been introduced yet. Someone from his past.

Arguably, and in a juvenile fashion. Every sixteen year old thinks that their current boyfriend is their "one true love" and that they are going to grow up and get married and live happily ever after. Yeah, ok .

Sure, Hermione loves Ron. He and Harry have been her only real friends since she came to Hogwarts. Of course she loves Ron. And, as we can see in book 6, they are in a relationship.

However, does everyone in here honestly think that Ron is Hermione's ideal life partner? I mean, no offense to Ron, but he's kind of a dunderhead... He isn't very studious, does not like to read, doesn't apply himself to anything but quidditch practice, and can't hold a candle to Hermione's academic accomplishments.

I honestly feel that Hermione needs a man who is more on her level... someone who approaches his work with fervor... someone who enjoys reading... someone who a vast array of knowledge... Oh, wait! Severus! *evil grin*

He he... Just my two cents, guys

Sigh, another day, another shipping debate.
But anyway, it's true that Ron isn't very book smart but he's vomited slugs for her, overcame his greatest fear when she was ill, stoud up to the teachers when she had tears in her eyes, noticed her irregular class schedule, noticed her new teeth, wondered about her love life, defended her from CAPSLOCK!Harry, and hold her, stroked her hair and cryed with her.
No one but Ron has shown that kind of attention for Hermione. And in anycase, let's leave it to JK to pick who's write for her. Not a couple of ranting shipping.
Now that I've said that, and defended myself, I'll remove myself from this debate.

Men...well they have a tendency to fall for the familiar don't they? I think to find who Snape will fall for you have to look no further than his dear old mum. She was the potions queen of her time, she also wasn't excatly the most beautiful woman on the planet.

Now only 2 women come to mind, one being Lily Potter, but that ship has past. The other is Hermione, and although this is not a relationship that I'm entirely comfortable with, I would have to say that I agree with Lilypotter when she mentions that fact that by book 7 Hermione will be of age and Snape will no longer be her Teacher. I've always seen something between tham. He's always been so mean to her and I remember treating someone badly because I fancied the pants off them!!

I have never been able to imagine Snape falling in love with anyone. But him falling in love with Snape could be a possibility. Doesn't mean I like it but you got to take into account anything can happen in the last book.

I think there is no way Snape will not fall in love with anyone. because i think tat his heart is to dull to love anyone.
And i do not think he will love hermionie... that woyld be strange because he is 50 years old or something around that. And hermionie is like 17 so no way. And i think he is to old to date. plus J.K. Rowling would not do that.

I think he will not fall in love because he is a death eater and they only care about themselves

I think something has happened in his life that might have made him so mean and kinda evil-ish. I think he might be able to fall in love, just maybe...

My friend Weazel said JK herself said that sev has the ability to love...that's why he could be more dangerous than Voldy himself! And he's only...37 or something, not 50. he's the same age as the Marauders (presumably if ther were in the same year) and being an ardent Lupin fan, I know that lupin is 37 or 38, so snape has to be around that age group.

Weazel: he was 37 in goF... so he's be about 40 now..... I know struff (struff???) me!

Er, thank you...I think. Moderator, please don't book me for that!

To say that his heart it too dull is just not right! if he can make himself save freaking Harry Potter even with the history he has with potter's father and friends then he his heart isn't that cold!

With whom will Snape fall in love? Erm... ME!, of course... duh...

HA HA Just kidding... maybe ...




What an intelligent statement baz. Seriously. A lot of people have a preconceived notion of Snape because they have read the book through Harry's eyes. It takes some serious thinking and dissecting to come to a conclusion other than the most obvious.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Snape has loved before, and is capable of loving again.

I don't know exactly who Snape will fall in love with but it will be someone out of Hogwarts we know already. I kind of thought maybe Narcissa and him, but she is married to Lucius and I don't think he would be happy if he got out of Azkaban and his wife is dating Snape. The Professor Trelawny thing now that would be interesting, and at the same time really funny! If it were any professor I would have to say Madam Hooch. I don't know why, it just seems right.

I see Snape as maybe the most tragic character in the whole story (well, Neville is close secound though). He just seems to be one of those persons who came off the right path some day through some kind of event we don't know about and never recovered from it. I can't imagine him to fall in love now, seeing him as a bitter "old" man (not that one in his late thirties was old). Maybe there was some love years ago but as for now... As much as I would like to see him find again some of his feelings I highley doubt this will happen. The only way I can see Snape come out of this book is dying for some cause -whichever it will ne- as a bitter man

Ok I strongly disagree. Snape is not trgic nor is he a bitter old man. yes, he is haunted and often misersble but he has a depth and interseting atmosphere around him that we don't find in most of the younger characters. personally, i believe it is too late for Jo to introduce a new character that snape will fall in love with. if this person does already exist it is likely to be somebody that is mentioned in passing, but has little relavence to the previous happenings of the first(6) books. it would have to be somebody he knows well, has strong similarities to but also has an opposite atraction - almost harmonising.

OR we could be reading this all wrong. was the question 'does snape fall in love' or 'does snape love'? the questions have VERY different meanings. if it is indeed the later question that was asked ( or even answered slyly by Jo to get us thinkng - as indeed it has) then it could refer to the love that snape has for a good friend. this could of course be one of the malfoys, dumbledor, voldemort -if he IS evil- or even harry, though i doubt it.

snape may not even love somebody else. he may come to shed the hate he has for himself, since the death of his mother, his constant bullying from james and sirius and his murder (???) of dumbledor. he could come to realise that he has his uses, he is a person and that somewhere, somehow he will belong. if he does realise this, he will truely love himself. it will never be the complete arrogant love that some have, or the self possesed love that others have, but it will be the absence of hate. when snape realeses this hate of himself he will start to live again. when people fall in love with life, they fall in love with the life, soul and body they posses. in essence they love themslves.

This is not a bad definition, actually. It could even be close to Snape's real life. We don't know anything about him apart from the public appearance. It's not so random, that when we knew something more about his past, we immediately felt sympathy (his childhood-the harassment by marauders).

Clara Morgue, I agree on your views about Severus, when you talk about the atmosphere he's able to create around him. I agree, sadly, on the fact that introducing a new character is beyond dispute. Many of us see Hermione as his natural mate, and I must say that I'm awfully jealous because being Snape's age I can't stand the idea of him wasting his time with such a younger woman. I have seen many of these relationships in which she has still to have fun, and he had enough fun already...(sorry Emily....nothing personal.... ).

I think that each one of us makes a projection of its own experiences and desires and fears when talking about what it will happen to characters.

I would like Snape to fall for a powerful witch, one his age, possibly. Why not Sinistra or Babbling? at last we don't know anything about them....they're his colleagues...



Wow.This is one of the most deep thoughts I've read lately. I liked it so much, thanks!
Snape could possibly need to find himself again, cancelling all those negative feelings he has experimented through the years.

We keep forgetting that the books are from Harry's point of view only; hence the title "Harry Potter and..."

Sirius said it best when he said, "The world is not divided up into good people and Death Eaters". There is a lot of grey area to fudge with. Professor Snape falls into that grey area. He's not the 'bad guy' at all, but he's not what we would consider a 'good guy' either.

I think Hermione would be a wonderful match for Professor Snape intellectually, but let's get real. Because these are children's books, JK is not going to hook up a seventeen year old student with a 40 year old man.



I disagree; every book has a new character introduced, so why couldn't the last book have new characters? If anything I think this book will have the most new characters to help tie up the loose ends.

As to who Professor Snape is going to fall in love with, how many of the adults have their 'love lives' in the story? Bill and Fleur, and Remus and Tonks. That's it. Right now is such a stressful time for Professor Snape; I don't see him getting involved with someone for the heck of it. Now if he makes a new friend, and gains a new confidant, I can see that turning into something. As for actually attempting to court someone, you might as well forget it. I can see it now, "Pending I don't have a meeting with the darkest wizard in a century, would like to meet for coffee and perhaps a bite to eat?" very doubtful.

A very good point indeed. This is something I do wonder about. Though I could imagine Snape to have had some love gone bad I am not sure that JKR's statement necessarily meant he had been "in love" with somebody or will be. Personally I could think about some tragic event in his family but I might interpret too much into the crying child of the "seen and unforseen" chapter of Ootp. Time will show which theory is true and which is not.




I'd much rather say if he releases the hate of himself. Once again, I'm not sure if it's really hate he feels for himself or a feeling of guilt more like or maybe a mix of both as those two can mix very easily.
Whatever it is I don't think he will release it. A highly subjective view once again but I totally cannot see Snape forgive himself and become somewhat "normal"


On a side note: I think that severely haunted and -as you put it- hating himself does qualify for tragic

I had read on a different thread that JK is not planning on introducing new characters to the seventh book. Can anyone verify this information for me?

If this is in fact true, then I need to retract my previous statement.

I do not see love being in book seven for Professor Snape. If indeed JK is not introducing new characters then we should have already seen signs of him and another character at least acquainted with each other.

Since we do not have him interacting with someone else then we need to conclude that he will not have a love life in book seven. Bill and Fluer were mentioned briefly in OotP, but enough for us to nod in agreement when their engagement was mentioned.

She hinted strongly at Tonks and Remus even though I'm sure I'm not the only one slapping their forehead in disgust for missing the obvious signs of Tonks' love for Remus.

I can't think of any adult that she has lay the ground work for to be with Professor Snape.

Sadly, our potion master will find love only in our hearts and our imaginations because unless I'm completely off, he won't find it in book seven.

Misto: hmmm maybe a little bit tragic then...

It seems kind of weird, but I think he was in love at one point with Lily probably. It just makes the most sense to me.

no that doesn't seem weird, its actually quite a common theory. although we have no actual evidence of this and it is probably based on the type of character that we think snape is, or could be. we know that lily potter (or evans at the time) saw the best in everybody and was a lovely person, it would probably be hard for somebody as young and prone to influence as snape twenty or so years ago, to not like her. however, it would be hard for him to actually fall in love with lily now, she has the small problem of being dead and him, alive.

I personally think its BELLATRIX LESTRANGE!

I dont know why i get that notion but i just do.

They have this TENSION when theyre around each other. who knows COULD HAPPEN.

I have my own theories..ok ready?

i think Snape WAS (and possibly still is ) in love with lily. (and that is a very ggod explanation to why snape hates james so much because (obvoiusly)James liked lily and there has to be some other reason why snape hated james other than he saves his life)
But i think in B7 lilys spirit will come back or wat ever and thats what jkr means by he will fall in love again. or maybe he will fall in love with bellatrix. those are my theories.

I agree that he was in love with Lily, but not that he will 'fall in love again'. i think he always has been, and therefore can't fall in love again, because he never fell,.. out of love.
Bellatrix however, no. i dont think this will ever happen. She (in the books) is not really good looking, so that wouldn't cause him to fall in love (if you can fall in love because of appearence...) she was intelligent, but she did not apply her intelligence like snape did. she was powerful, but did what ever she was told to do by voldemort, instead of think for herself. Severus could be excused for think of her as lower than him, because in his eyes, she was. she was just a servant. he was more, double agent, most valued servant, powerfull wizard, trusted freind, whatever you believe. she wasn't in the same league as him, they were playing entirely different games.

I agree that there would be tension, but i think it would be the type that would result in one or more dead bodies, not passion or what-have-you...

I think that he was deeply in love with Lily and a fair number of boys cover up their love by ignoring/being mean etc to that special person.

When Lily tried to help him in the corridor (we see this in the pensieve) and he said he didn't need her help, I think that was because he didn't want to look like a weakling.

However when Lily died, Snape at first was grieving but then he felt a passion for someone else.

Narcissa.

There is a conection between them...I can just...feel it!

Narcisa Malfoy

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I really think that Snape was in love with Lily! That is why he hates James, because James got Lily in the end when he had wanted her for such a long time. Snape passes on the hate to Harry that he felt to James because of Lily.