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Snape fills in as the Quidditch referee for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rolanda Hooch|Madam Hooch]]; Harry, believing Snape is using this as a cover for another attempt on his life, catches the Snitch almost immediately, ending the game.
After Harry overhears Snape arguing with Professor Quirrell about his loyalties, Harry, Hermione, and Ron conclude that Snape is after the Philosopher's Stone for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort|Voldemort]], and only Quirrell stands between it and the Dark Lord. Hagrid's claimsclaiming that Snape is helping protect the Stone only causes the Trio more concern. Harry believes that once Voldemort is resurrected, he will kill Harry. The Trio venture through the trap door under Fluffy, to retrieve the Stone before Snape can.
In the climactic scene between Professor Quirrell and Harry, Quirrell reveals that he (Quirrell) seeks the Stone for Voldemort; Snape was actually thwarting Quirrell's efforts to jinx Harry's broom during the Quidditch game. Harry's scar hurt during Arrival Feast because Quirrell and Voldemort share a link, rather than it being connected to Snape.
In the Dueling Club, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Gilderoy Lockhart]] uses Snape as his sparring partner, though Snape easily defeats him. When Lockhart has students practice in pairs, it is Snape who halts the ensuing mayhem when students try jinxing each other and ignore Lockhart's instructions. Later, when Lockhart suggests having a student pair on the stage, Snape selects Malfoy and Harry. When Malfoy casts a serpent, Lockhart's attempt to eliminate it merely tosses the snake harmlessly into the air. Upon landing, it seems poised to strike [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Justin Finch-Fletchley|Justin Finch-Fletchley]]. As Harry tries calling off the snake, Snape quickly casts a spell to dispatch it, then stares oddly at Harry; Ron and Hermione quickly escort Harry away.
After [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley|Ginny Weasley]] is taken into the Chamber of Secrets, Snape is among the teachers echoing Lockhart's recent boasts about his knowing the Chamber's secrets back to him., Inapparently spitein ofan Lockhartattempt takingto thepersuade claim back, they apparently persuades him otherwiseLockhart to confront the BasiliskMonster. and save its hostage asLockhart, a means of getting rid of him while Snape does the task himselffraud, intendinginstead to turn her overreturns to the Ministry for expulsion from the school by falsely revealing that Ginny must have opened the Chamber with Hagrid's information on itshis entranceoffice and usestarts Harry'spacking, newfound feelings for herintending to seduceleave theHogwarts boy and his friends into covering for her after solving the mysteryquickly.
Lockhart, a fraud, instead returns to his office and starts packing, intending to leave Hogwarts quickly. Harry and Ron stop him and Lockhart's memory is lost when his own Memory Charm for both boys backfires. When Snape learns that Harry has saved Ginny instead, and she was proven to have been under Voldemort's control via the old school diary belonging to the Dark Lord's true identity [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Tom Marvolo Riddle|Tom Marvolo Riddle]], it may be possible that his bitterness toward Harry may have increased in an unpleasant way.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]] ===
During Snape's Potions final exam, Harry is doing poorly. Snape scribbles what looks like like a zero on Harry's notepad before walking away.
Snape hides under Harry's [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Invisibility Cloak|Invisibility Cloak]] inside the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Shrieking Shack|Shrieking Shack]] as Lupin and Sirius tell Harry, Ron, and Hermione about their days at Hogwarts. Snape, their classmate, was tricked by Sirius and nearly killed by Lupin, who was confined in the Shrieking Shack during his werewolf transformations. Harry's father, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|James]], saved Snape by preventing him from entering the Shack. Revealing himself, Snape says he saw Sirius' name on the Marauder's Map in Lupin's office. He ignores Remus' explanations about Sirius' innocence, instead binding both him and Lupin, intending to turn them over to the MinistryDementors forat execution via soul-removal by falsely revealing that Sirius must have snuck into Hogwartsthe castle with Lupin's help and used Harry's desire of killing the convict (for his betrayal of Harry's parents to Voldemort) and his friends into his clutches once they attempt to apprehend him themselves. But Harry, Ron, and Hermione are more convinced by what both Sirius and Lupin have been saying, and simultaneously [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Expelliarmus|Disarm]] Snape, rendering him unconscious.
Snape awakens after [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peter Pettigrew|Peter Pettigrew]] was revealed to be alive and had escaped. Snape collects the unconscious Sirius, Harry, and Hermione, who were disabled by Dementors, and also Ron, who Pettigrew jinxed, and takes them to the castle. With Sirius now captive, and the Trio in the Hospital Wing, Snape summons [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cornelius Fudge|Cornelius Fudge]] to report capturing Black. Harry awakens in the Hospital Wing to overhear Snape explaining to Fudge that Lupin must have helped Sirius break into Hogwarts, and that anything Harry and Hermione might say should probably be discounted because they may have been [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Confundo|Confunded]]. Snape appears pleased when Fudge says Snape could receive an Order of Merlin.
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When Dumbledore arrives to speak with Harry and Hermione, Snape and Fudge head off to witness the Dementors administering the "Kiss" to Sirius, only to discover that Sirius escaped. Snape, raging mad, accuses Harry of being involved, despite [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Poppy Pomfrey|Madam Pomfrey's]] assertion that he and Hermione were always in the infirmary. As Snape angrily stalks off, Fudge comments that Snape seems unhinged.
The next day, while angry to see that Dumbledore has convinced Fudge that Lupin had probably been trying to use a specific negotiations to save Harry's life, Snape reveals to everyone at Hogwarts that Lupin is a werewolf, causing Lupin to resign his post as the Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor. His bitterness toward Harry increases in an alarming way throughout the year's end, but it is hinted that he is unable to fail the boy on purpose because Dumbledore must have stepped in to prevent it. Harry sees a muscle twitch unpleasantly at the corner of Snape's mouth every time they looked at each other in Potions, all while the latter flexes his fingers as if itching to place them around the boy's throat.
The next day, still angry, Snape reveals to everyone at Hogwarts that Lupin is a werewolf, causing Lupin to resign his post as the Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor. It was learned at the Shrieking Shack that Snape had been brewing the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Wolfsbane Potion|Wolfsbane potion]] for Lupin to retain his mind during his werewolf transformations. Snape is among the few who can successfully brew the complicated potion, a recent discovery.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]] ===
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