[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Lily's point of view: WAS Snape/Lily, life debt

[Anita Hillin]

No: HPFGUIDX 65398

darrin said:

Lily was a compassionate, gentle person, and I have no doubt that if
Snape ever worked up the courage to ask her out, she'd have been
gentle with him, and given that Sirius and Lupin never bring any
Snape-Lily thing up, she likely kept any Snape interest in her from
James, who would have told those guys. (Or, she threatened James with
dire punishment, including no nookie, if he ever told.)

[Anita Hillin] This is a little OT, but it's been brewing in my feverish
brain since reading OOP last weekend.   I was struck that Harry was much
more likely to react like Lily in that scenario than he would have acted
like James.  The remarks "you have Lily's eyes" I've always presumed to mean
she has some special skill (Seer?) that Harry's inherited, but it occurred
to me after that scene that he may share her point of view, rather than her
magical skill.  It could be both, of course.  Now, in an effort to tie this
to the earlier post, Snape should be able to see that Harry has more of
Lily's personality than James's, but he's blinded by his own prejudice and
Harry's striking physical resemblence to his dad.  There, how's that?

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