Snape, Lorrie Kim
Snape, Lorrie Kim
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Snape
The Definitive Analysis of Hogwarts’s Mysterious Potions Master

Author: Lorrie Kim

Narrator: Michelle H. Lee

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/08/2022


Synopsis

While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J. K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the span of seven novels, Snape's remarkable role in the series can be hard to parse: Where do his true allegiances lie? Can a former Death Eater change his spots? Why does he seem to loathe the boy he's pledged to protect?

Taking an analytical approach to Hogwarts's irascible, protective Potions professor, author Lorrie Kim presents a closer look at how Dumbledore's double agent operates behind the scenes throughout the Harry Potter series. By examining the story from Snape's point of view, this in-depth exploration pierces the defenses of the wizarding world's famed Occlumens, revealing the man for who he truly is: one of pop culture's most memorable heroes.

About Lorrie Kim

Lorrie Kim lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her clever, grumpy, magical spouse and their Harry Potter-reading offspring, one born between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince and one in gestation during the publication of Deathly Hallows.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on December 28, 2016

This is the book I never knew I was longing for. It's the first time I've ever read a companion book to the Harry Potter series and not thought NEEDS MORE SNAPE. Because every page of this is Severus Snape, Potions Master, Head of Slytherin, Headmaster, Spy. Kim sets out to deliver a critical reading......more

Goodreads review by Wee on September 16, 2023

The perfect book for all those Slytherins out there.......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on January 11, 2023

3.5 stars, but I’ll round up to 4! Overall this was such a good book. There were times where I completely disagreed with points the author made because her opinions left me feeling very weird and uncomfortable. She focused quite a bit sometimes on Snape’s physical appearance which made extremely dee......more

Goodreads review by Laurie • The Baking Bookworm on June 22, 2017

This book is a thorough dissection of the Harry Potter books with a focus on Severus Snape, one of the all-time best, most complicated and polarizing characters of modern literature. Each chapter focuses on one of the seven books in the series. They begin with a detailed account of the book's plot a......more

Goodreads review by Fefyy on December 31, 2020

"there was more to him than met the eye" -Alan Rickman "No longer does the story show Snape as an ugly man. The usual gratuitous descriptors of his ugliness—the mentions of the hooked nose and the greasy hair during standard exposition—are now gone from the narrative. Rowling writes him with stark re......more