“- a hook nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman while a small dark-haired boy cried in a corner….A greasy-haired teenager sat alone in a dark bedroom, pointing his wand at the ceiling, shooting down flies….” page 592, Order of the Phoenix, American Version Severus Snape is a mean, vindictive, cunning old man, whom almost no one likes. But what if that was only a cover up for something that happened to him long, long ago?