[HPforGrownups] Snape and Lily

[Carol Bainbridge]

No: HPFGUIDX 48071

Sixhoursahead wrote:

>We all know that Snape
>never mentiones Lily.  But I think we have to look at what he DOES
>NOT say about her.  Both Draco and Lucius Malfoy make comments to
>Harry, that he will meet the same end as his parents.  And they make
>these comments in response to Harry's behavior.  When Snape responds
>to the same type of behavior in the same fashion he says that Harry
>will end up like his father.

I think one reason that Lucius mentions both the Potters may have something 
to do with the fact that he and Narcissa were Death Eaters (don't have the 
reference handy, but at some point, there is a reference to both of them) 
and James and Lily were on the opposing side, interfering with LV attempt 
at world domination.  The Potters both "meddled" and that's what led to 
their "sticky" end.  Snape, OTOH, has a personal animosity toward James, so 
it makes perfect sense that Snape would refer only to James.  He also 
doesn't necessarily mean that Harry will die the same way, as Lucius seems 
to indicate, but that Harry will turn out to be just like his father, a 
person Snape clearly does not respect or like at all.


Carol