More than six years after his passing, the secret journals of actor Alan Rickman is shedding new light on why he continued to play Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies.
Excerpts from late British actor Alan Rickman s journal have shed light on his decade-long journey through the Harry Potter franchise and why he decided to continue playing the anguished wizard and Professor Severus Snape in it.
Harry Potter, fictional character, a boy wizard created by British author J.K. Rowling. His coming-of-age exploits were the subject of seven enormously popular novels (1997–2007), which were adapted into eight films (2001–11); a play and a book of its script appeared in 2016. Harry Potter was first introduced in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997; also published as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), as an orphan who is mistreated by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday Harry discovers that his parents were a witch and a wizard and that he,