After all this time? Always.

The movie version wasn’t quite as climactic or meaningful as I’d imagined it in the text, but I still love Snape as a result. In the text: “I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter -- “ “But this is touching, Severus,“ said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?“ “For him?“ shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!“ From