Snape/Lily thought...

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No: HPFGUIDX 33235

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Eric Oppen" <oppen at c...> wrote:
> You know, I have been wondering:  A lot of people on here think 
that Snape
> was in love with Lily and resented James (and by extension Harry) 
because of
> that, but what if it was just the opposite?  We don't know what 
Lily was
> like at school other than that she was Head Girl. Head Girl does
> _not_ equal "nice," or "kind," or much of anything other than "good 
at her
> studies and in good with the faculty."
> 
> For all we know, Lily might have been extremely cruel to Young 
Severus, and
> deliberately humiliated him in front of his peers once, or more 
than once.
> Whether with or without James' assistance, a popular, lusted-after 
girl in a
> school can easily do this to an unpopular, overlooked boy, as in 
pretending
> interest to get his hopes up, only to yank the rug out from under 
him at the
> worst possible moment.
> 
> Snape, as I see him, is a proud person, and in this scenario, he 
might even
> have joined the DEs as a way to get back at the popular crowd, and 
at Lily
> in particular.  Having to be reminded of her and her boyfriend 
every day
> would be torture.
>


Of course, this scenario of Lily-the-evil-heartbreaker assumes that 
Snape is lonely, friendless, unpopular, put-upon, etc.  We have no 
canon evidence that this is so.  We do have evidence that Snape was 
part of a group of Slytherins, admittedly from the biased Sirius, but 
even so, this seems to indicate that Snape did not go through his 
Hogwarts days as a loner.  

There does seem to be a certain view of Snape that a possible reason 
for him being the disagreeable, nasty, snide adult that he seems to 
be is that he was picked on as a student by all those nasty 
Gryffindors.  Yes, I believe that there was definite enmity between 
Severus and Sirius.  I can't buy that the Marauders plus Lily devoted 
all their pranks towards showing Snape up.
For that matter, we have no evidence in canon that links Lily to any 
of the Marauders' actions.  We don't even know if she knew about the 
Animagus transformation.

Sure, it's possible that Lily was an ice queen who was cruel to 
Snape.  However, she might have been a shy, bright, quiet, late-
bloomer who was a target of unwanted attentions by Snape.  In this 
scenario James comes to her defence,  Lily falls in love with him, 
and Snape goes through the next decade or so twisted by his thwarted 
desires and joins the DEs because he can get revenge on those he 
thinks have slighted him.  Or perhaps he hopes to get Lily as a 
reward for his contributions to Voldemort's efforts.  There's no 
canon evidence for this scenario, either.

I think we really need more information from JKR to figure out the 
dynamics of the relationships of the Snape/MWPP+L era, and I will be 
really disappointed if we don't get more clues in the next book!!

Marianne