[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Lilly Potter

[The Sparrow]

No: HPFGUIDX 51949

--- "samnjodie <englishatjodie at hotmail.com>"
<englishatjodie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
 
I can't see Voldemort making bargains!  I don't know
about this whole Lily and Snape thing. I'm on a Snape
lovers group post and they're lapping it up! Lily
seems to think Voldemort wouldn't have wanted to kill
her because she sacrifices herself for Harry-meaning
she thought she wouldn't otherwise be killed. Why
would she think that Harry and James are in danger but
not her?  Maybe according to other theories I've seen,
is that she is related to Dumbledore somehow- they
both have Auburn/dark red hair-Voldermort fears
Dumbledore, possibly because he had defeated the
previous dark waizard Grindlewald-someone I'm keen to
find out about.  Even the lexicon doesn't have any
story on him. We must remember that Snape is loyal to
Dumbledore for reasons-some we know, some we assume,
some we don't begin to realise yet. 

> 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.
 
  Dumbledore might not be lying, but he might not be
telling the truth either. The pensieve is for his
thoughts, which are based on his *beliefs*, not solid
fact.  If Dumbledore believes Snape abandoned
Voldermort before killing the Potters, then that's how
it would appear in the pensieve. 
 
>(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?
  
I've heard this too. I don't know about him being a
vampire in every sense,but it is quite possible he is
an unregistered animagi. It has been suggested that
Dumbledore is animagi too, as he was Transfiguration
teacher befor McGonnagall. His mame has also been
reported to mean 'white bee'. If Rita Skeeter can
transfigure, surely Dumbledore can!

Sparrow
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