It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.
Severus Snape wasn't yours," said Harry. "Snape was Dumbledores, Dumbledores from the moment you started hunting down my mother.
On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.
And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything.
But Snape always seemed to hate me so much.
He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Look. . . at. . . me. . . .
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.