There are many instances in the series where it is Severus Snape himself who stands out as the best character.

Snape may have ended his relationship with Lily Evans by calling her an offensive name. "Half-Blood Prince" also gave fans a glimpse at the relationship between Severus and Lily through memories ...

You have your mother’s eyes,” a dying Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) tells Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in 2011’s Harry ...