Professor Severus Snape Quotes in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Professor Severus Snape: There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few...

[stares at Draco Malfoy]

Professor Severus Snape: Who possess, the predisposition... I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death.

[notices Harry scribbling on his paper]

Professor Severus Snape: Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!

[steps over to Harry]

Professor Severus Snape: Mister Potter. Our new celebrity.

[deleted scene]

Professor Severus Snape: For your information Potter, Asphodel and Wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of the Living Death, a Bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for Monkshood and Wolfbane, they are the same plant which also goes by the name of Aconite. Well, why aren't you all copying this down?

Professor Severus Snape: What would three young Gryffindors such as yourselves be doing inside... on a day like this?

Hermione: Uh... well... we... we were just...

Professor Severus Snape: You ought to be careful. People will think you're...

[sees Harry staring at him]

Professor Severus Snape: Up to something.

[after catching Harry scribbling on his paper]

Professor Severus Snape: Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?

[Harry doesn't answer]

Professor Severus Snape: You don't know? Well, let's try again. Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?

Harry: I don't know, sir.

Professor Severus Snape: And what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?

Harry: I don't know, sir.

Professor Severus Snape: Pity. Clearly, fame isn't everything, is it, Mr. Potter?

Professor Severus Snape: [notices Harry Potter scribbling in class] Mr. Potter, our new celebrity.

[Ron looks at Harry, who looks confused]

Professor Severus Snape: Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?

[Hermione raises hand, which Snape ignores and turns his attention to Harry, who shakes his head]

Professor Severus Snape: You don't know? Well, let's try again. Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?

[Hermione riases hand again]

Harry: I don't know, sir.

[Ron looks at Harry again]

Professor Severus Snape: And what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?

[Hermione's hand is still raised]

Harry: [looks at Hermione] I don't know, sir.

Professor Severus Snape: Pity. Clearly, fame isn't everything, it it, Mr. Potter?

[Draco Malfoy smirks]

Professor Severus Snape: You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: After all this time?

Professor Severus Snape: Always.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: We both know Lord Voldemort has ordered the Malfoy boy to murder me. But should he fail, I should presume the Dark Lord will turn to you. You must be the one to kill me, Severus. It is the only way. Only then will the Dark Lord trust you completely.

[Flashback of Snape killing Dumbledore]

Professor Albus Dumbledore: There will come a time when Harry Potter must be told something. But you must wait until Voldemort is at his most vulnerable.

Professor Severus Snape: Must be told what?

[Shot of Snape going through the halls of the Potter house]

Professor Albus Dumbledore: On the night Lord Voldemort went to Godric's Hollow to kill Harry, and Lily Potter cast herself between them, the curse rebounded. When that happened, a part of Voldemort's soul lached itself onto the only living thing it could find. Harry himself. There's a reason Harry can speak with snakes. There's a reason he can look into Lord Voldemort's mind. A part of Voldemort lives inside him.

Professor Severus Snape: So when the time comes... the boy must die?

Professor Albus Dumbledore: Yes. Yes... he must die.

[Shot of Snape collapsing at the sight of Lily's dead body]

Professor Severus Snape: You've kept him alive so that he can die at the proper moment. You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter!

Professor Albus Dumbledore: Don't tell me now that you've grown to care for the boy.

[Snape casts a Patronus in the shape of a doe, just like Lily's- the same one that helped Harry find the Sword of Gryffindor in Part 1]

Professor Albus Dumbledore: Lily... after all this time?

[Shot of Snape holding Lily's body in his arms while crying]

Professor Severus Snape: Always.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: [after James and Lilly's deaths] The boy survives.

Professor Severus Snape: He doesn't need protection, the Dark Lord is gone!

Professor Albus Dumbledore: The Dark Lord will return! And when he does, the boy will be in terrible danger! He has her eyes.

[Snape pauses in shock]

Professor Albus Dumbledore: If you truly loved her...

Professor Severus Snape: No one... can know.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: That I shall never reveal the best of you, Severus?

Professor Severus Snape: Look at me... you have your mother's eyes.

Professor Severus Snape: [to the Hogwart's students] If anyone here has any knowledge of Mr. Potter's movements this evening, I invite them to step forward... now.

Harry Potter: [Stepping out of the crowd] It seems despite your exhaustive defensive strategies

[the doors to the Great Hall suddenly open, as the Order of the Phoenix members walk through]

Harry Potter: , you still have a bit of a security problem, Headmaster.

Professor Severus Snape: [to Dumbledore about Harry] You've kept him alive so that he can die at the proper moment.

Professor Severus Snape: No! Don't kill me!

Professor Albus Dumbledore: The prophecy did not refer to a women. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July.

Professor Severus Snape: Yes but, he thinks its her son! He intends to hunt them down now, to kill them. Hide her, hide them all. I beg you.

Professor Albus Dumbledore: What will you give me in return, Severus?

Professor Severus Snape: Anything.

Professor Severus Snape: [Trying to staunch the bleeding wound on Snape's neck, Harry suddenly notices that Snape is crying light, almost crystal tears. Snape gestures towards his eyes] Take them... take them, please.

Harry Potter: Hermione, give me a flask, anything!

[She reaches into her bag and produces a flask, which Harry uses to collect the memory tears running down Snape's cheek. He clutches the bottle in his hand then again tries to staunch Snape's wound]

Professor Severus Snape: Take them to the Pensieve... and look at me.

[Harry stares at him]

Professor Severus Snape: You have your mother's eyes.

[a confused look crosses Harry's face as Snape takes his last breath]

Professor Severus Snape: You have preformed extraordinary magic with this wand, my Lord, in the last hours alone.

Lord Voldemort: No, I am extraordinary, but the wand... it resists me.

Professor Severus Snape: There is no wand more powerful, Olivander himself has said. Tonight when the boy comes, it will not fail you I assure you.

Professor Severus Snape: It's come to my attention that earlier this evening Harry Potter was spotted in Hogsmeade. Should anyone attempt to aide Mr. Potter, they will be punished.

Professor Severus Snape: [to Voldemort] There is no wand more powerful. It answers to you, and to you only.

Professor Severus Snape: For myself and a few select members of staff, this news comes as little surprise. We have for some time now considered Mr. Potter's return to Hogwarts as not merely possible, but inevitable.

Professor Severus Snape: [to Harry] You have your mother's eyes.

Professor Severus Snape: [to students] You are surely wondering why I have summoned you at this hour. It has come to my attention earlier this evening, Harry Potter was sighted in Hogsmeade.

[students murmur to each other]

Professor Severus Snape: Now, should anyone, student or staff, tempt to aid Mr. Potter, they will be punished in a manner consistent with severe tea of their transgression further more.

[Professors McGonagall and Slughorn make pitiful looks]

Professor Severus Snape: Any person to have found knowledge of these events who fails to come forward will be treated as... equally guilty. Now then...

[walks down steps to students]

Professor Severus Snape: ... if anyone in here has any knowledge of Mr. Potter's movements this evening...

[walks among students]

Professor Severus Snape: ... I invite them to step forward... now.

Harry Potter: [steps out of the crowd of students and everyone gasps] It seems, despite your exhaustive defenses strategies, you still have a bit of a security problem, Headmaster.

[Great Hall doors open to reveal the Order of the Phoenix members]

Harry Potter: I'm afraid it's quite extensive, how dare you stand where he stood. Tell them how it happened that night! Tell them how you looked him in the eye, a man who trusted you, and killed him! Tell them!

[Snape points his wand at Harry, but Professor McGonagall steps in front of Harry]

Minerva McGonagall: [throws spells at Snape until he flies out of the window, while the crowd cheers]