Alan Rickman is so sweet. So I've been getting comments saying media doesn't work. So I'll post media and type it too if it's something with words, no pictures or images. This is what the media says:

FOR EMPIRE MAGAZINE

APRIL 26, 2011

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for the absolute last time. On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma, and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems too have passed in minutes.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and even though that only three of the books were out at the time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

ALAN RICKMAN