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

[leb2323]

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> --- ghinghapuss <rredordead at a...> wrote:
> > What is the `something' we find out about Lily in book 5?  Her 
hating James Potter?  

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, An'nai Jiriki <xmezumiiru at y...> 
wrote:
> I like the forced marriage theme. 
> Chris


I know I have snipped a lot here -- possibly too much -- but I mainly 
want to touch on the forced marriage bit in this thread.  

What we see in the pensieve scene is a picture of animosity between 
two teenagers of the opposite sex.  James is being a stupid git bully 
and Lily has the guts to stand up to him (even though she is
obviously not fond of Snape either).  This could be our important bit 
of info from book 5 -- the fact that her beliefs are strong enough
for her to put aside personal feelings that may contradict them, the 
mark of a strong and moral person indeed.  But I digress.  

The fact that Lily and James have an antagonistic relationship at
this point in their lives does not preclude them forming a meaningful 
relationship later on.  In fact, who's to say that throwing jinxes 
and hexes in the hallways is not the WW equivalent of pulling 
someone's pigtails or some other such childish nonsense just to get 
noticed.  

I think the notion of an arranged marriage or a marriage for any 
reason other than love defeats the theme of "Love" in the book.  The 
locked room in the department of mysteries is assumed to contain
love.  In the 1st book LV couldn't touch Harry because his mother's 
love was in his veins.  DD has hinted that it is Harry's capacity to 
love that will be his edge up over LV.  Having Harry be the product
of a marriage borne not of love but necessity detracts from and 
lessens this theme.

This doesn't quite seem as well formed or thought out on paper as it 
does in my head but it will have to do.

leb -- who has been very happily married for many years to her 
soulmate who she hated passionately at age 19 (many, many years ago!)