Alan Rickman Deeply Related To Snape's 'Always' Secret, Says JK Rowling

Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape on the "Harry Potter" series once revealed that J.K. Rowling share a little piece of information about his character.

Following Alan Rickman's death last week at the age of 69, the best-selling author J.K. Rowling revealed what she said to Rickman in her Twitter account.

"Will you tell us the piece of information that you told Alan Rickman about Severus Snape? Or will that forever be a secret?" one commenter wrote.

Answering a question from a fan, she wrote on Twitter: "I told Alan what lies behind the word 'always.'" As far as fans know, "always" is linked to Snape's love for Harry Potter's mother, Lily Potter.

 In a previous interview with Hit Fix, Rickman, who played Snape through the course of "Harry Potter" saga, gushed how that information from Rowling shaped his complicated character. He said that it made him realize how to portray better the broody Potions professor as Snape and his relationship with Harry.

"[It] helped me think that he was more complicated and that the story was not going to be as straight down the line as everybody thought," Rickman said.

 "If you remember when I did the first film she'd only written three or four books, so nobody knew where it was really going except her. And its was important for her that I know something, but she only gave me a tiny piece of information which helped me think it was a more ambiguous route."

He added, "What I knew was he was a human being and not an automaton and I knew there was some sense of protection for Harry or I worked that out. It was enough to know, I didn't know he was a double agent."

J.K. Rowling remembered Alan Rickman, who starred in all eight movie adaptation of "Harry Potter" series, as a "magnificent" and "wonderful man."