The Harry Potter Character You Didn't Notice Never Changes Their Costume

From wizarding robes to Quidditch uniforms to formal (and occasionally silly) Yule Ball attire, the various costumes each character wears in the Harry Potter films help distinguish their personalities. But sometimes all a character needs is one singular black costume to fit their disposition. 

If you look back at each Harry Potter film in the franchise you'll notice that Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) always sports the same all-black ensemble. From his black shoes to his black robes up to his long jet black hair, Snape never lets us see him in any other outfit. And the look is perfectly fitting with the character's personality: he even wore the same attire when aligned with Lord Voldemort as a Death Eater. It also helps him more easily sneak up on students in the darkness. 

But why, in the films, does Snape's outfit never change, while we see every other character don different attire? 

Costume designer Jany Temime worked on six of the eight Harry Potter, and said she purposefully never altered Snape's costume.

"I never changed Professor Snape," Temime told HelloGiggles. "I used the Professor Snape costume and I remade it. I made another cape. I always kept Professor Snape [as he was], because I thought it was a great costume."

Temime had, in contrast, altered several costume designs from the first two films when she came aboard for The Prisoner of Azkaban. According to Fashionista, since the third film was the first "dark" one of the franchise, she wanted the movie's costumes to reflect that. She placed a hood and collar on the Hogwarts robes, and gave the Quidditch uniforms a much more rugby feel to them. But when it came to Snape's outfit, she elaborated, "It was perfect," Temime said. "When something is perfect you cannot change it. Why should you change it? It was him. And he never changes, Professor Snape. He's the sort of guy who goes to bed in his costume. Bless him, Alan Rickman."

Rickman himself made sure the costume fit the character, telling the New York Times he was very involved in the look and that he was "very specific about it. I said the sleeves should be really tight and there should be a lot of buttons." And the late actor was no stranger to donning all kinds of outfits, from a suited Hans Gruber in Die Hard to a cloaked, Crusades-era Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But Rickman said, according to Uproxx, that when he put on Snape's costume, "something weird took over. It's the only character and I suppose by my own [insistence] really, never changed his costume over 10 years. Everybody else grew up or had different kinds of outfits. Never Snape and you sort of got the feeling that's the only thing he's got hanging in his wardrobe."