Why did Lily marry James ? / Snapes other worst memory

[rowena_grunnionffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 66918

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:

> Any man would do that! Snape would have done that! That's 
> protecting "your own". You don't have to shed arrogance and bravado 
> to be "the type" that will try to save your own flesh and blood 
from 
> being murdered in front of you. The question is, would James have 
> tried to save...oh...say Severus' son if the situation had been 
> reversed?

   Maybe. Snape certainly does his snarling best to protect and 
rescue James' son. And James did save Snape's life you know.
 
> We don't know who said, "Lily it's him..etc." *I suspect* James was 
> already dead by then.

   Now what on earth makes you say that? Who else do you think was in 
the house that night? Everybody reports finding just two bodies - 
James and Lily's so did this third person survive somehow? But if so 
how did Voldemort get past him?
 
> not to mention having the guts to join the OotP in what 
> > must have been the Order's darkest days. 
> 
> 
> Psssst. Snape did that too... on the quiet, but he did it....

   Oh don't misunderstand me! I consider Snape quite the bravest man 
in the Wizarding World. The risks he's taken and is taking now spying 
on Voldemort and his DEs is appalling to think about. No wonder he's 
nasty and snappish living under that kind of tension!