Our generation is known for being a lot of things but one thing that gets overlooked is the fact that most of us grew up with Harry Potter. We entered the wizarding world when Hagrid said "You're a wizard, Harry," and we followed dutifully behind him as he went from book to book, challenge to challenge. We loved with Harry and we definitely hated with him. Of course the main antagonist of the Harry Potter series is Voldemort but there's another character that gets increasingly difficult to pin down, or so some people say. I think Severus Snape is pretty black and white to be completely honest. These are some of the reasons that Snape DOESN'T become a good person just because we find out he loved Lily.

"Philosopher's Stone"

This is the first book and the first taste we get of Severus Snape. We don't know a lot about him when we get to Hogwarts except that he teaches potions and, according to Ron's older brother Percy, he wants the Defense Against the Darks Arts teaching post. Then we get our first Potions lesson and things turn a little grey for our dear Harry. Snape targets Harry as soon as the kid sits down. He asks wild questions that we as readers can't even answer let alone our main character. To be even more awful, we don't know the answers to those questions until at least book five, so how can Harry know them on his first day. Of course there some wizards in the world who think Harry has great magical ability just because of his past but honestly, he was raised by Muggles. Hateful muggles at that, so how is he supposed to know?! He's not, Snape's just a bully.

"Chamber of Secrets"

Snape really starts upping his game in this book going from just an annoyance to someone to really avoid. The first time we see him is when Harry and Ron run into the Whomping Willow and tries to get them expelled. Granted, they made a stupid call, but they're twelve years old with MAGIC. Then there's the fact that he puts Harry in a duel with Malfoy. How did he actually think that was going to go? And Snape starts picking on Neville, making him so nervous that Harry repeatedly tells us that Neville is the worst in the class, that Snape hangs around Neville like a bat telling him how awful he is. So again, bully.

"Prisoner of Azkaban"

Ok, "Prisoner of Azkaban" is the third book and things start getting intense throughout the whole series because all of a sudden, Harry, is in actual danger. I mean, Sirius is lose and apparently trying to kill him and Voldemort is just a distant memory for the time being. And then there's Snape. First, we find out that he's literally Neville Longbottoms BIGGEST fear. When a teacher is your biggest fear there's a problem. Second, we see that Snape is full of hatred just at the mention of Sirius's name and Remus's. Talk about holding a boyhood grudge. He calls Hermione a know-it-all and granted that's true, you're a teacher, aren't you supposed to WANT your students to be smart? Then he tries and gets Sirius to get his soul sucked out AND on top of that Snape rats out Remus and tells the whole school he's a werewolf. He goes from bully to just plain mean.

"Goblet of Fire"

The first awful thing Snape does here is tell his students he's going to be poisoning one of them so they better have their antidotes ready. What? You're a teacher. Sworn to protect, right? Well, Snape missed that faculty meeting and went straight to torture. No big deal. Snape amps it up though when Harry is down getting information for the third task, on his way back he talks to Viktor Krum when Mr. Crouch comes, zombie-like, out of the Forbidden Forest. Harry runs up to find Dumbledore when, you guessed it, Snape gets in the way. You can obviously see how frantic Harry is to get to Dumbledore and Snape just calmly tells him to get over himself which in turn makes it almost impossible for Harry to save Crouch in time. Nice going, Snape. And lastly, Snape, just to be a jerk decides that he's going to read an article about Harry and Hermione being in some weird love triangle with Viktor Krum in front of the whole class. Classy, Snape, real classy.

"Order of the Phoenix"

Snape repeatedly makes Sirius feel like a useless child every time he goes to the Order's hideout just because of a huge vendetta he has against Sirius. Like news flash: you're an adult. Plus he practically almost murders Harry when he becomes good enough in Occlumency to reverse the spell and see into Snape's thoughts, where we learn he uses Mud-blood to describe Harry's mother. And to add a little flavor: he threatens to give Harry a huge dose of truth potion. I'm pretty sure that's illegal. And this one, the big thing that Snape does, which eclipses everything else, is when Harry blantantly asks him for help in protecting Sirius, Snape ignores him. Yes, we learn later that Snape did indeed go make sure Sirius is safe however, Snape knows Harry has a hero complex. He knows Harry. He should know that Harry would take any measures to get to Sirius to save him, so the normal thing to do would be to tell Harry in a discreet way that Sirius is fine. Then maybe Sirius wouldn't have died. Just an idea.

Half-Blood Prince:

This book gets a little complicated because we're spending so much time following Harry who's following Draco. But what we do see is that Harry believes whole heartedly that Snape is trying to help Draco do whatever it is that Voldemort wants Draco to do. We even see, as the audience not Harry's shadow, that Snape has made the Unbreakable Vow to help Draco. Excuse me, but isn't Snape on Harry's side? I don't know but it doesn't seem so here, does it? Then the fact that Snape kills Dumbledore, I mean, yeah, we find out later why, but still.

Deathly Hallows:

Snape's headmaster of Hogwarts, and we don't really get to see all that much of him besides the fact that he pretty much let's students get tortured by the Carrows. Yeah, he's supposedly not utilizing the Carrows the way he's supposed to, to like save them from torture, but he still lets some students go down there. Then he flees the Battle Of Hogwarts like some sick traitor, which I mean, he kind of is. And then to redeem himself he gives Harry a memory that is supposed to convince us he's not a bad person even though we learned like a book or two ago that he's the reason that Lily and James are dead. You can't cancel out a Prophecy for a Memory.

And that, Potterheads, is why Severus Snape is not redeemable. Under any circumstances.