Snape's history (spoilers)

[naraht]

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From: naraht
Subject: Snape's history (spoilers)
Date: 7/19/00 11:40 am  (ET)

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My wife said something very interesting to me last night when we were
discussing HP. She says Harry is no longer the person in the books she
is most interested in reading more about is Severus Snape.

Why did he betray Lord Voldemort? My wife's opinion is that Severus Snape
was in love with Lily Potter while they were all at Hogwarts. (We know
from HP3 that James,Lily, Remus, Peter , Sirius, and Severus were all
in Hogwarts at the same time (James and Lily were Gryffindor, I don't
believe we have proof that Remus, Peter and Sirius were Gryffindor or
that Snape was Slytherin...)

I think the reason that he broke from Voldemort was that he tried to
convince VOldemort to spare Lily's life (maybe Voldemort promised her
to him after he killed James?) and when Voldemort killed Lily, Snape
went straight.

Notice that in book one, Dumbledore says that SNape can go back to hating
his father's memory in peace. NOT, *his parent's* memory...

Randy