Tear.
If you’re a Harry Potter fan and loyally read the books and followed the films, you might want to grab a tissue before reading this.
As HP obsessives will know, Harry had a long-running feud with Severus Snape, his Potions teacher at Hogwarts.
I won’t say much more about this volatile relationship for fear of ruining the plot for anyone who hasn’t read the series (WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!)
Although the first words shared between Snape and Harry may not seem like much, it turns out there might actually be a hidden meaning behind their introduction.
As hardcore fans will know, they first met when Harry arrived at his Potions class, back in the first book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
Snape lands the poor lad in with a seriously tough question, asking him:
“Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?”
Spotted on Bustle, someone has actually figured out an alternative meaning to the seemingly standard textbook Potions query.
Tumblr user, tomhiddles, think he has the answer and it’s a revelation, albeit a heartbreaking one.
In a post featured on the blog, he explained that ‘asphodel’ is a type of flower, a lily to be exact.
An excerpt from the post entitled “you’ll never have my heart” reads:
“According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning ‘My regrets follow you to the grave’ and wormwood means ‘absence’ and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow.
“If you combined that, it meant ‘I bitterly regret Lily’s death’”.
So basically, Snape addressed Harry’s mother Lily, and his sadness at her death, the very first time they met even if he did give Harry a seriously tough time for a while.
Another strange connection is the fact that asphodel was once used as a treatment for snake bites and as Harry Potter fans know, Lily died while trying to save her son from Voldemort, a wizard who had a link with snakes.
Of course, it might just be a coincidence BUT then again, J.K Rowling often included random coincidences and hidden meaning in the HP series.
MAD.
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