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Fantasy Literature

Matilda

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6. I was so interested to hear that Snape's buttons were his idea.

Reply to Myrina (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 10:09 PM

Jul 2012

Many actors find their character through something external - an item of clothing, a prop, particular makeup, and work inwards from there. Snape's buttons are so much of a part of him that if Rowling ever wrote a Snape-centred story, I think she'd have to include the buttons.

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