There are many instances in the series where it is Severus Snape himself who stands out as the best character.

Severus Snape is one of the most highly-debated characters in the "Harry Potter" franchise. On one hand, he was a vindictive bully, but on the other, he was living a secret double life as both a ...

You have your mother’s eyes,” a dying Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) tells Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in 2011’s Harry ...

The upshot of this is that due to his knowledge of Wormtail's treachery, Snape knew that James and Harry Potter would be attacked and almost certainly killed, whether they had prior warning of ...