LOLLIPOPS responds to the attack on Snape/Lily!

[koinonia02]

No: HPFGUIDX 34960

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> 
> Koinonia (quoting me):
> >>As for Snape leaving Voldemort before James and Lily died and the 
> >reasons therefor (?), those of you who got to the end of my 
> >Unauthorised Biography of Severus Snape.... 
> 
> >Sorry, I don't read any fanfic :-)
> 
> Accckkk, it *wasn't* fanfic!! 

Maybe I will read it if I can find the time :-)


 > In a final billow of the LOLLIPOPS sails, look, I have some 
>sympathy for those who think any form of tragic romance sub-plot is 
>too eww to be treww, blaggh, spare us the smoochy stuff.  Once upon 
>a time, I would express similar sentiments and would sigh gustily 
>whenever the obligatory Love Interest violined her/his way onto 
>centre stage.  But that doesn't mean that (a) it's too yikky to be a 
>possibility, and (b) JKR couldn't do a tasteful job of it.  I'm sure 
>she can.  After all, she handled the Yule Ball with great style.  >>>
(Wangoballwime?)

Just where do I start?  I have been away for so long but I just 
couldn't resist getting in the middle of all this utter baloney of 
Snape loving Lily  ;--)  Also, there is no way I could read all the 
Snape/Lily theories so I am just going to give my take on this AGAIN.

First off I don't have any problem with Snape having a love 
interest.  I don't even mind a story with a tragic romance and I do 
like some smoochy stuff.  What I don't like is this picture of Snape 
being so in love with Lily that he turned into this DE who is now 
just a bitter man.  What a boring story IMHO.  How much more 
interesting if Snape did love or still loves someone other than 
Lily.  Someone had a nice short post about Snape and another love but 
I couldn't find it.

So let me see if I get this right.  Snape comes to school at the age 
of 11 and somewhere along the way he falls for Lily.  Now during this 
time Lily and James fall in love.  So just where is Snape?  Just 
sitting around watching James and Lily and dreaming of what will 
never be?  Snape is so in love with Lily that he joins the DE's, then 
realizes what a mistake that is, goes to Voldemort and begs him to 
spare Lily but doesn't give a darn if James and Harry dies, dreams of 
having Lily once James is out of the way, and so on.  Is this all 
that there is to Severus Snape?  Some pitiful guy in love with a 
woman that he never had but still dreams of having (I hate unrequited 
love stories).  Even after she marries and has a child?  Then Lily 
dies and Snape is so heartbroken over this woman he never had that he 
spends the next years of his life becoming bitter and mean.  Why in 
the world would Dumbledore hire a man like that to teach at Hogwarts? 
Would Dumbledore hire a man who had made a deal with Voldemort to 
spare Lily but kill James and Harry?  I just can't see that.  I just 
can't see Snape hating Harry so much because of his unrequited love 
for Lily.  C'mon.  The man is now in his 30's.  Is Snape going to 
spend the rest of his life wasting away over Lily?  What a loser and 
I don't believe Snape is that sort of person.  

How much more interesting if Snape had a love interest that died, 
remained a DE, or left him because of his becoming a DE.  I could 
think of other examples but that is enough.

I just don't like this Snape/Lily stuff at all UNLESS Lily truly 
loved Snape and not James. Sorry Tabouli....I will never join the 
LOLLY club.  Of course I will never join the 'Snape is part Dementor' 
club either but I won't get into that now.

Just some other rants concerning Snape:

I don't know why this guy gets blamed for everything.  He gets blamed 
for the Shrieking Shack, Fudge and the Dementor, etc.  It amazes me 
that there are those who believe there is no good in this man and 
refuse to look at things from his viewpoint or from how Harry and the 
other kids perceive him. Snape isn't just some ignorant, worthless 
teacher.  

I don't want to see Snape turn out to be nothing more than a man in 
love with Lily. There just has to be so much more to him.

Koinonia