(Title comes from Yoda’s popular line: Do or do not, there is no try.)

He’s like Severus Snape in a San Miguel jersey sans greasy hair. He’s dribbling the ball, getting booed, passing the ball, getting booed, shooting the ball, and yeah, you guessed right – getting booed. He’s running on the court, making play signals, hair flopping every way just like when Snape glides through the hallways of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But one stark similarity you can’t deny between Snape and this man is their Harry Potter, or in this guy’s case, his Harry Potters.

Snape is one of the most loathed anatgonist our era has ever had the displeasure of meeting. He’s hated by the Gryffindors, Ron and Hermione, and of course by the boy who lived. But if you’ve had read the last installment of the successful Harry Potter series, you’d know how he has been hurting since Lily Potter died, how brave he was as a spy for Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix, and how he gave up his life for the benefit of the light side.

The semifinal series between my favorite Brgy. Ginebra Kings and my hated San Miguel Beermen of the Philippine Basketball Association might not have reached the apex of a game seven showdown, unlike the seven part best-seller of J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potters - the hundreds of thousands of die hard Ginebra fans, met their very own version of Severus Snape in the form of one Alex Cabagnot.