Harry Potter: 10 Most Heart-Breaking Movie Moments

Severus Snape was always presented as one of Harry’s greatest adversaries during his time of Hogwarts - the Professor who constantly belittled him because of his parentage and Chosen One status.

However, everything we knew about Snape is flipped on its head during one of the best, most dramatic sequences in the entire film series, where it is revealed that Snape has always been in love with Harry’s mother, Lily. Fans are treated to perfectly edited flashback sequences depicting Severus and Lily meeting for the first time as children and Snape never losing is pure devotion to her, even after she marries James Potter and has a child with him.

Snape's Patronus takes the form of a doe, the same as the woman he loves, and he spends the rest of his life working with Albus Dumbledore to protect Harry Potter and defeat Voldemort for good.

In the whole film series, nothing could be more tragic and heartbreaking than seeing Alan Rickman as Snape, desperately holding on to Lily's dead body in Godric's Hollow, with a terrified infant Harry watching on in the background.

"After all this time?"

"Always."