The first Harry Potter movie introduces Severus Snape at the Sorting Ceremony, seated at the High Table talking to the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Quirinus Quirrell. The first book in the Harry Potter series - The Sorcerer's Stone describes Snape as "...a teacher with greasy black hair, a hooked nose and sallow skin." He is part of a brief but perplexing scene that involves him, Harry, and Quirrell. Snape looks past Quirrell's turban, straight into Harry's eyes who experiences a sharp pain across the scar on his forehead. Moments later, at the start-of-term banquet, Ron's brother, Percy Weasley informs Harry that the professor talking to Quirrell is the head of Slytherin House and is named Snape.