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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

The Psychology of Severus Snape (2018 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda and Humberto talk about the psychology of Severus Snape from the Harry Potter books.

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March 26, 2018

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0:00.0

So, Berto, why do people love Snape, Severus Snape?

0:11.8

Why do they, he's supposed to be kind of a secondary character, and at times he's almost

0:17.6

like a villain.

0:19.2

But for many people,

0:23.7

Severus Snape is their favorite character from the Harry Potter books in the movies.

0:26.6

Whoa, whoa, bleat a lover.

0:29.7

Why do people...

0:30.8

It's because he is the ultimate, tragic character,

0:35.1

and yet initially we all felt he was a very good villain and yeah it's just like

0:40.6

there's so many good archetypes wrapped up and and demonstrated via that character he's also um i think

0:48.6

the as it was portrayed in the movies was done so well by Rickman.

1:00.0

And so I think the people that read the books probably felt like myself fell in love with the complexity of that character and just how much we didn't like him and then how much

1:04.6

we grew to understand all the things we didn't understand.

1:07.7

And then the people that saw the movies probably loved also the performance that he gave.

1:13.6

And yeah, it's great.

1:15.8

I love it.

1:16.6

Yeah, it's interesting.

1:17.3

People love Vader and Kylo and Loki and Ramsey Bolton and Theon Greyjoy and Hannibal Lecter, Patrick Bateman.

1:27.5

But in all those examples, all those were real monsters.

1:32.7

Yeah.

1:33.6

And Snape defies those expectations.

1:36.3

Right.

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