HP and Les Miserables, Phantom and SHIP Lily/Snape

[jotwo2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 56175

If you subscribe to LOLLIPOPS and if you think that Snape's love was 
unrequited, then his Les Mis character could be Eponine.  Eponine, 
the once pampered but now poor and neglected daughter of the 
Thénardiers, is in love with Marius, the radical student, 
(paralleling Lily in this scenario) who is in love with Cosette, (who 
takes the role of James).  With a switch of gender in the lyrics, I 
can imagine Snape singing Eponine's solo, On My Own, and her part of 
the One Day More number.

Another character from musicals that Snape gets compared to as well 
is the Phantom of the Opera.  In this triangle Lily is Christine and 
James is Raoul.  My versions of this story which I a most familiar 
with are the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and a book called Phantom by 
Susan Kay.  The parallels are even more obvious in this. The anti-
hero obsessively loves the heroine and is violently jealous of the 
rival suitor, who is much more eligible.  However, a lot of women, 
including me, wish the heroine could be with the man who has less 
going for him.  It's not because I dislike Raoul but I just feel that 
the Phantom loves Christine more, needs her more.  Similarly, it's 
obvious that James was a nice guy but somehow I see Snape's love as 
being more intense.  And in both stories that fact that it is a Love 
That Can Never Be makes it all the more powerful and tragic.

To test my theory, how many people like the Phantom story, and are 
also Snape/Lily shippers?  

Jo