J.K. Rowlingcan still devastate us with just a couple of sentences.

TheHarry Potterauthor tweeted a tribute to late Severus Snape actorAlan Rickmanon Tuesday.

As always, I’m NOT ready to say goodbye to Severus Snape.

ALAN RICKMAN as Severus Snape

Murray Close/Warner Bros.

Rickman, of course, played the nefarious-seeming potions professor across all eightHarry Potterfilms.

“We needed to have a conversation early on.

He was the only person who knew that for a long, long time.”

Rickmandied of pancreatic cancerin 2016.