“Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.”

English actor

Alan Rickman was an English actor, born in 1946 and died in 2016. He was known for stage and screen performances, and for a deep, measured voice that made him instantly recognisable. He earned a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Actor Award, and he was also nominated for two Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2009, The Guardian named him among the best actors never to receive an Academy Award nomination. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.