Yet another Snape Theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 2133

For a long time it's been obvious to Dumbledore and most of the 
faculty at Hogwarts that an educated and trained Harry Potter was the 
only real hope of defeating Voldamore, and it was equally obvious 
that the chance of Harry surviving such a confrontation was almost 
zero. That's why the mixture of triumph and despair (or was it 
guilt?) flashed over Dumbledore's face at the end of book 4. Most 
thought of this as a necessary evil but not Snape for Snape was a 
moral man. I don't mean he's a nice cuddly person or anything, he's 
cold, calculating, ambitious and perfectly willing to take advantage 
of the weakness in others to get his way, I just mean that for Snape 
morality is something you have to take very seriously. Snape felt 
that training a child to go on a kamikaze mission without even 
telling him what was going on was morally wrong, even if he didn't 
happen to like the child involved, and he certainly didn't like 
Harry. Snape wanted to get Harry expelled, he enjoyed making him 
miserable hoping he'll quite, but never did he do anything to put him 
in physical danger, in fact he protected him.   

When Snape was a kid he was a cheerful boy who's driving ambition was 
to learn all the magic there was to learn. His first course at 
Hogwarts was "charms", they were learning love potions. The students 
teamed up to give charms to each other, by pure chance Snape's 
partner was Lilly Riddle, Harry's future mother. Normally this is 
harmless, the sort of charm a kid could make would only last a few 
minutes at best, and even the charm made by a adult wizard could be 
reversed without much difficulty. However Lilly was a magical genius, 
an absolute powerhouse especially in the area of charms, at the time 
nobody understood this, least of all Lilly. The charm caused Snape to 
fall madly in love with Lilly and the effect was permanent and 
irreversible. Lilly always felt very guilty about this, after they 
graduated Lilly even offered to marry Snape but he knew she did not 
love him and so would be unhappy, Snape could not stand the thought 
of her being unhappy. Lilly married James Potter instead.

Snape couldn't hate Lilly but he could hate James, Harry looks like 
his father so Snape hates him too. Snape finds that the charm makes 
him incapable of loving anybody else and is embittered, he becomes a 
death eater. Lilly has developed a charm that she thinks will counter 
Voldamore's Avadra Kedavra death curse, that's why he wants to kill 
her. So far she's only made enough for one person so she gives it to 
Harry. When Snape finds out that Voldemore is trying to kill Lilly he 
switches sides and becomes a spy for Dumbledore, that's why he trusts 
him so much, Snape hates Voldemore as much as harry does. Snape 
fought courageously to save Lilly but failed. By the end of book 6 
Harry and Snape don't become friends exactly but at least learn to 
respect each other, after all, Harry has his mother's eyes.