What is Lily's big revelation in Book 5??? Help!

[louieneira]

No: HPFGUIDX 78066

Could it be that Snape has a love/hate thing for Lily and has passed 
it on to Harry? He might have been infatuated with Lily at one point, 
but being unaccustomed to romance, might have said the wrong thing, 
or shown his jealousy of James once to often., or just realized she 
would never return his feelings in the way he would like.

Now, when he sees Harry, he's reminded of his rejection, but through 
Harry's green eyes, he also remembers the love he had for Lily, but 
the rest of Harry, especially his hair and favored status, reminds 
him of his hatred for James. No wonder he has so much interest in 
Malfoy geting the better of Harry. 



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:
> Mandy said:
> Is there another revelation that is hidden and I've just missed?  
> Please help.
> 
> 
> bboy_mn said
> Most people responded with a reference to 'Lily hated James', but I
> think the real key is that Lily defended Snape. I think a miserable
> persecuted isolated odd-ball like Snape, as much as he would never
> admit it, would take those acts of kindness in his defense to heart.
> There are many people that speculate that Snape loves Lily. I don't
> think that is quite true, but I think they are on the right track. I
> think Snape admires and appreciates Lily's, I beleive, more that one
> attempt to defend him.
> 
> As evil, spitefull, and sadistic as Snape is, I think Lily planted 
the
> seeds of compassion in him, and when he found out that Voldemort was
> going to kill the Potters, out of his new found sense of compassion
> for Lily, he couldn't allow that to happen, so he turned on 
Voldemort.
> 
> I think we will find, as many people already suspect, that Snape was
> the one who tried to save the Potters.
> 
> 
> Mandy again:
> You know I absolutely agree with you.  I have thought the same 
thing 
> myself about Lily defending Snape being important too.
> 
> I don't know why but I always thought her response to Snape after 
him 
> calling her a Mudblood was very harsh, especially coming from 
someone 
> risking herself to defend him.  To then snap back a nasty comment 
> about washing his clothes and calling him `Snivellus'.  Although I 
> know nothing about her, it seem almost below her in a way and the 
> sort of nasty, snippy answer you would get between two people who 
> have a relationship already that has gone sour.
> I'm just reading too much into it I expect.
> 
> Mandy