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Em Memória



"Professor Severus Snape gave his life for me. I will never forget that. How can you?

You know, he was once someone I despised. But as we worked together against a common evil, I gained enormous respect for him. He had joined evil and it could have given him much power. But he saw what others did not. He saw the pain and suffering that he would cause in achieving and keeping this power. He, had, inside, a good heart. He did not want to be the cause of such horrid sorrow. Severus Snape broke away from the evil. That, alone, would have earned my respect. None many could have done so. But he took it one step further. He began to work tirelessly against this evil, at tremendous risk to his own life. Lady Luck stayed with him, until-

until that final moment when he chose to die so that I might live. Live to defeat the evil he labored so ceaselessly against. And that evil was defeated. So not only my life was saved, but yours-

and yours-

and yours-

and yours.

So as you bow your head tonight and thank whoever's watching over us, as you thank that whoever that we are free and at peace, thank also Professor Severus Snape. Thank him, for he is the one who is responsible for your being able to have something so joyful to be thankful for. He was a great man, and I for one am blessed to have known him."

With that, 18-year-old Harry Potter placed a dark red rose upon the soft blanket of snow that had begun to cover Professor Severus Snape's coffin. He looked upward and whispered, "Thank you, sir, for everything."



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