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Alan Rickman's diary details why he continued to film Harry Potter despite cancer battle
Harry Potter, who loved the actor portraying harsh-faced Severus Snape. Now in extracts of his journals, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, fans are let into the decisions the actor made concerning his part on the fantasy series of films, how he was able to get into character and his first reaction to reading of Snape’s death within the Potter world.After reading the final Harry Potter book, Deathly Hallows, he shared his thoughts in an entry from July 27, 2007.Obtained by The Guardian, the entry reads: “ … I have finished reading the last Harry Potter book.Snape dies heroically, Potter describes him to his children as one of the bravest men he ever knew and calls his son Albus Severus.“This was a genuine rite of passage.