[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape, James and Harry WAS Snape and Lily- I just can...

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48114

WARNING: LOLLIPOPS mentioned (not an expert on LOLLIPOPS, so bear with me 
please!)

In a message dated 12/10/02 7:56:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk writes:

> In PoA, Ch.19, Snape screams at Harry "You'd have died like your 
> father, too arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black." [p. 
> 265 ]. Earlier, in Ch. 14, he tells Harry his version of James 
> saving his life, which is extremely unflattering to James.
> 
> But he has never, ever used against Harry what he must quite surely 
> realise - that the father whose memory Harry idolises is the man 
> whose faulty judgement killed himself and Lily, and nearly killed 
> Harry himself.
> 
> In a sense, Harry is an orphan because James Potter *was* too 
> arrogant to believe his friends would betray him. Dumbledore offered 
> to be his Secret Keeper. James was warned that one of his friends 
> was a traitor. [Ch. 10 of PoA]. But he preferred not to believe it.
> 
> But Snape has never said 'your father nearly got you killed', or 'if 
> it wasn't for your father, you wouldn't be an orphan'. That has been 
> left for Harry to work out. 
> 
> What Snape *has* said is that James wasn't a hero, wasn't a saint, 
> and struck Snape, at least, as arrogant.

Ooohh....I really like that.  James didn't let Dumbledore be the Secret 
Keeper....wonder why.  I suppose it's one of those eternal mysteries.  Well, 
that, and if he would've been, I'm quite certain we wouldn't have a series. ; 
)  
But why would James believe one of his friends was the traitor?  In PoA, it's 
said that James and Sirius were like brothers, so out goes suspicions of 
Sirius.  Lupin just seems like too nice a guy to be a traitor.  Peter 
might've been perceived as weak (and rightfully so IMHO, but that's another 
story).
Is could this be a LOLLIPOPS connection?  Severus hates James because he 
thinks James got Lily killed with his arrogance?  (I hope that that 
connection makes sense to *someone*)

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~


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