[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily/Snape ::bleh::

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 42137

Jackie:
>In my humble opinion, if a DE being in love with Lily was what was
>driving Voldemort to spare her (and I don't really think it was, he
>hasn't been too sympathetic to his sycophants so far) it would be
>Peter.

OOOOooo...I like it!!

I really, really like it!! Imagine Peter going to Voldemort -- prepared to break the Fidelius Charm, but with one condition...that Lily be spared.  "She's not a Potter," says Wormtail -- "She doesn't *have* to die...and she's always been nice to me."

And Voldemort, being the gracious baddie that his is, says, "Okay." And really *does* intend to leave Lily alive, but then she gets in his way and is very annoying, so he AK's her anyway -- too bad for Wormtail.

Jackie:
>It makes far more sense that he would be the one with unrequited
>love for her - I imagine that she acted as sort of a protector for him
>when Sirius and James got to teasing him, and maybe even helped him
>fight back against students from other houses (*cough* Snape *cough*)
>if he was picked on. Perhaps it's because I write too much MWPP fic,
>but I've definitely got Lily pegged as the kind of girl who would be
>both clever and kind enough to do that. He probably hero-worshipped her
>in much the same way that he did James and Sirius, but since she's of
>the female sex, that could quickly turn into adulation and outright
>"love". I don't think that Lily would ever have been aware of it,
>though... anyway. I have a lot of theories about Peter, but this is one
>of them. :)

Hmmm...sounds a lot like Hermione and Neville's relationship, doesn't it?  We know Neville looks up to the Trio...comes to them when he needs help, etc.  And Hermione helps him with homework and bullies, notices when he's distressed (when Mad Eye casts Crucio on the spider), and there is even evidence that he's transferred some of his admiration and gratitude towards her into a sort of crush (he *did* invite her to the Yule Ball).

Actually, if you replace Hermione for Lily, Neville for Peter, and Harry and Ron for Sirius and James, the paragraph you wrote still makes complete sense.

Plus, there's the fact that Harry's Dream-Peter looked like Neville -- I, for one, find that significant.  (I don't, however, believe that it necessarily means that Neville will go EverSoEvil.)

Ah, history repeats itself again and again.

laura



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