Why did Lily marry James ? / Snapes other worst memory

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Marianne wrote:

> 
> I wonder what more JKR will reveal about the twisted relationships 
of 
> MWPP/Snape.  She's spent a lot of time giving us a very one-sided 
> view of James.  Now, in OoP she shows a distinctly nasty side, 
which 
> also serves to illustrate Snape as victim.  I wouldn't be at all 
> surprised, that now that she's made James less of an ideal in 
Harry's 
> mind, and a much more realistic, flawed human, if she doesn't plan 
to 
> switch tracks again in the next book and disabuse us of the notion 
of 
> Snape as helpless victim.
> 

She has to have Harry realise his father was a human being with 
faults just like everyone else. Harry is growing up and it's part of 
the process to realise your parents' flaws and imperfections. It 
would all be too sugary if he didn't realise that.

What I would like is to know more - much more - about Lily. Whereas 
James is getting a lot of attention in the books, Lily hardly has a 
personality of her own at all. The pensieve scene is the first time 
we get to know she actually is a separate person from James - or 
Harry. So far she has been nothing but "Harry's dead mum, end of 
story".

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