I'm sorry I know many of you have been awaiting a chapter update but I felt I needed to talk about the sad news that had broken today.
For those of you that don't know, Alan Rickman who played the character of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies has sadly passed away at the age of 69 from cancer. The news was the first thing I saw this morning on my Facebook feed and I immediately started crying. Before I had started reading the books, I saw the first movie when I was about 6 years old. Before I even read the books, I had an idea of what Snape looked like, how he sounded, his mannerisms and that was due to the brilliant acting that Rickman gave. He was a character I loved to hate, a man I sometimes loathed and at the same time felt pity for.
I know that the coming years we will, as a fandom, experience the loss of these beloved actors and feel as if a bit of are childhood has died along with them. However, that is not the case. Are childhood will live on every time we open a book or tune into a Harry Potter marathon. We will get to relive the magic that these actors and actresses brought to life in front of our eyes.
Rest in peace Alan Rickman and always remember, "After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"-Dumbledore. So let's raise our wands (literally or figuratively) for the brilliance that was Alan Rickman.
