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

He has always been infatuated with the Dark Arts. Harry learns from Percy, even at his first night at Hogwarts, that Snape "knows an awful lot about the Dark Arts." 4 Sirius confirms in Harry ...

Snape pretty much fits the description of a Potions Master to a T. It's widely known by Hogwarts students and professors that Snape wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor ...

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