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Hey everyone, welcome to a special installment of Harry Potter Theory. Today we're going to be diving back through the years on the channel

and discussing 10 Harry Potter theories that all pertain to our favorite double agent, Severus Snape.

The range of theories is pretty broad and they paint Snape in a bunch of different lights.

They cover his hidden motivations, secret talents and answer some questions about his origins.

As this is a compilation style video spanning years of the channel, please be aware of some

varied audio levels, inconsistent numbering, and some, but hopefully not too much, repeated

information. Anyway, without further ado, sit back, relax and enjoy ten theories about Severus Snape.

While a student at Hogwarts, Severus Snape scribbled all sorts of spells and curses

into his advanced potion-making textbook under the moniker the Half-Blood Prince.

And when Harry first takes Slughorn's

potions class, he's fortunate enough to find the very same textbook that a young, troubled

Snape once jotted pure gold into. This book is the property of the Half Blood Prince. And

Harry ends up using the book for quite some time, as for each and every one of Slughorn's

lessons, the book provided easier and clearer instructions that he could follow. The book was

like having cheat codes to all of the potions lessons. But the book didn't just contain advice

on how to make potions or perfect existing spells, there were also spells written inside that were

totally new to Harry, spells he hadn't heard of before. Because you see, these were spells

that Snape had created himself. One such spell was Sectum Sempra. We first see Sextempsenper

in the films when Harry uses it on Malfoy in the Half-Bled

Prince.

The name Sectum-Sempra comes from the combination of two Latin words, sectus, which means

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