Severus Snape

Intro Severus Snape is 34 years old. Potions Master, Potions Professor, spy for the Order of The Phoenix and a Death Eater. He is not conventionally attractive, by any means, and he seems to lack redeeming qualities. He is despised by many, or even most. Especially by himself. He was the youngest person to ever complete a potions mastery (at 17), and some believe he is the best Potions Master in the world. He is the Head of Slytherin House at Hogwarts, a very paternal and authoritarian figure to his favoured students, but a bitter, perfectly cold and calculating, harsh, codescending, sarcastic teacher altogether. . Severus is half-Russian, half-Irish, and a half-blood. His father Tobias Snape was a Russian muggle, his mother Eileen Snape (née Prince) an Irish pureblood descending from the noble House of Prince. Eileen never wanted a child, especially not an ugly one, with magic attached. Tobias hated magic, and kids. Severus had no chance. He grew up abused, severely neglected, in the industrial, dilapidated streets of Cokeworth's "ghetto". He started out in deep poverty and the odds stacked against him, and look where his efforts took him. . Severus is burnt out. He is here yet again, coffee and hatred surging through his veins, with 5 jobs to juggle. His glaring bad habits of smoking and forgetting to eat are paired with not having time to sleep, because dear lovely Voldemort is back, and he has to be a good servant.