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Is Snape sallow or does he just have the wrong skin tone to wear almost unrelieved black?

I can only think of Harriet Vane, who thought of herself as sallow while Wimsey described her skin as honey-colored. And of the comment from her dressmaker when she needed black for mourning the king’s death (Thrones, Dominations):

“It’ll be alright if we keep it off the face.”

Snape’s wardrobe, as described, would certainly be a trial for anyone with an inclination to sallowness.