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Book Review: Alan Rickman’s Diary, Truly Madly Leaves Me Wondering
Long admired by me, this actor’s life account leaves me cold.
When you are raising three boys starting in 1994 through the present, the Harry Potter books and movies become a large part of your life. While we never attended the midnight book or movie releases that became a part of media culture in the later years of the series, we all read the books (including my husband and me) and viewed the movies many times over.
Severus Snape played by the talented Alan Rickman became a character that was both loved and hated by fans. Until his ultimate reason for the way he behaved towards Harry was revealed towards the end of the series, Rickman played a character that was not liked. He was sharp and nasty, demanding and unforgiving towards the students at Hogwarts. But he had a reason. And the reason, revealed in the stories, was also the reason he took on the role for the movies. This is discussed in his recently published diaries. Snape loved Lily, Harry’s mother, and that is the reason for his character’s behavior and also for Rickman agreeing to play the role of the Professor of the Dark Arts.
But for anyone who followed Rickman’s career or began following it after seeing him in the Harry Potter movie series, such as I did, he was so much more…
