That no-good floozy...

[carolynwhite2]

>From Eric Oppen [28902], one of my very favourite posters - good to 
see he is still going strong ! He wrote an hilarious one somewhile 
back as to what he would do if, as a batchelor like Sirius, it 
suddenly looked like he had to take care of a 15-month old toddler.


Very interesting stuff about the possiblity of Snape being soured on 
life through an unrequited crush on Lily Evans. However, do we know 
that _as a teenage girl,_ Lily Evans was a nice person? Quite a few 
women I know who've turned out to be admirable people were, as 
teenagers, treacherous little cows whom I wouldn't have trusted with 
my back turned for one second. If Snape _had_ a Thing for Lily Evans, 
and she was a no-goodnick (nothing as evil as being a DE, but 
something rhyming with "witch," if you know what I mean) and she 
deliberately used him...as in, for instance, setting him up to
be the fall-guy for some scheme of hers or the Marauders'...it could 
have easily left a permanent sour taste in Snape's mouth about 
relationships in general, and Lily Evans (Potter) very much in 
particular. Snape and I, I fear, share a weakness, Corsican 
Alzheimer's. That's where you forget everything but the grudges. And 
Snape now has to deal with the fact that a lot of people know he was 
a DE once, no matter who vouches for him. That could put the kibosh 
on a lot of potential relationships.

Lily Evans' teachers' good opinion of her doesn't count for much,
necessarily. The women I referred to above, in many cases, were very 
good at presenting one face to those in authority and another to 
their classmates and age-mates.