Snape and Lilly Potter

[samnjodie <englishatjodie@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51897

I really really like the theory that Snape was in love with Lily.  
I'm totally rooting for it.  However; it occured to me while re-
reading GoF; one of the theory's presented here is that the reason 
Voldemort initially told Lilly to step aside was because he had made 
a deal with Snape, for favors rendered, that he wouldn't touch Lilly 
when he attacked the Potters - but Voldemort did kill Lilly, and so 
the theory goes, this is why Snape abandoned Voldemort and came over 
to Dumbledore.

But; when Harry was in the pensieve he witnessed Dumbledore telling a 
courtroom that Snape had come over to their side before Voldemort's 
downfall and thus before the attack on the Potter's.

If this is true (and it is, of course, possible that Dumblodore is 
lying, but assuming that he isn't) then at least part of the 
Snape/Lilly theory can't be true.

This isn't a big snag in the theory, but a snag nonetheless.

And one more thing (for the theory that Snape is a vampire).  In GoF, 
Ron asks if it's possible that Snape arrived where Crouch had crawled 
onto the grounds before Harry and Dumbledore had managed to get 
there - and Harry says "Not unless he can turn into a bat, or 
something"

Do you think maybe J.K. threw that in as a bit of foreshadowing to 
facts she intends to bring to light in later books?

Hmmmm....