JK Rowling has recently opened up about sharing details of Snape character in Harry Potter to late actor Alan Rickman.
In a new interview with Times of London, Rowling confessed she spilled the secret about Snape character to Rickman because he was confused.
"He rang me up and said, ‘Look, I’m spinning plates here. I really need to understand what Snape’s up to? Am I a pure baddie?’ He was the only person I told: ‘You were in love with Harry’s mother,'" revealed the author.
Rowling mentioned, "I talked him through it: ‘You are a double agent. But you do dislike Harry. You can’t overcome your quite visceral dislike of this boy who looks just like your arch enemy.'"
"So, I told Alan Rickman what was coming, way before it came in the movies," she added.
Rickman, who died in 2016, played Snape in all eight of the movies of the bestselling book series.
Rowling expressed her sadness at having to do away with characters like Snape in the book she had created.
"I don’t like killing off characters, but it’s part of life, isn’t it? Killing Snape was awful. I always knew he was going to go," she noted.
The writer pointed out, "I couldn’t bear killing Lupin and Tonks [Harry’s teacher and his wife], that was so sad. Oh and Fred [Weasley]."
Meanwhile, Rowling informed she is currently writing two books in her hit detective Cormoran Strike series, and six books in her head in total.