Emily Brontë once described Heathcliff like this in her book Wuthering Heights.
The orphan Old Earnshaw had picked up from the streets of Liverpool wore tattered clothes, and his black hair was greasy and filthy.
He was a gloomy yet remarkably patient child. Perhaps the torment of life on the streets had numbed him; no matter how Hindley beat him, he never made a sound or shed a single tear.
When all the children caught measles, he was also the quietest and least troublesome one in the nursemaid's eyes.
Pomona had met Severus at Hogwarts. She had no idea what he had been like at a Muggle school before that.
He always wore his school uniform and wizarding robes, whether it was a holiday or not, whether he was at school or in Hogsmeade.
It was also through Petunia that she learned of the strange boy who wore his mother's shirts, lived on Spinner's End, and liked secretly opening other people's letters.
British playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that first love was a little clumsiness plus a great deal of curiosity.
As a half-blood magical creature, she was very curious about humans.
She envied Lily and Severus's friendship. It felt different from when she was with the Marauders.
Heathcliff's Catherine had once been like a wild little boy, which was why she could play with Heathcliff. Once she learned to dress herself and observe the manners of a lady, she gradually drifted farther and farther away from him.
She became aware of class, as well as the material conditions needed to sustain a "respectable" life. Those were things a Gypsy foundling living under another's roof at Wuthering Heights could never provide.
Elizabeth had actually been a very nice girl. If Heathcliff had cherished her instead of using her as