WINDOW SILLS

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 80755

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deirdre F Woodward" 
<dwoodward at t...> wrote:
> Canon shows us that Snapes *hates* Harry and has hated him since 
> Snape!he laid eyes on Harry!him.
> The two don't add up.  Why would Snape hate the child of the woman 
> he loves/-ed?  Can any of us imagine hating -- despising with the 
> blackest of hatred -- the child of the person we love?  Without 
> provocation?
> 
> Snape's feelings for Harry are predicated upon Snape's feelings 
> towards Harry's father -- total hatred because Snape totally hates 
> James.  
> 
> If Snape's transferring one of the two strongest of human emotions, 
> hatred, from father to son, it stands to reason that he'd transfer 
> the other of the two strongest of human emotions, love, from mother 
> to son.
> 
> If the Snape!Theories are to hold, since the child of his most 
> hated enemy and the child of his most treasured love are one and 
> the same, Snape should have two very conflicting emotions towards 
> Harry.  I haven't yet seen, in any of the books, a conflict of 
> feelings from Snape to Harry.
> 
> Even if Snape loved Lily once but no longer does, you'd think 
> there'd be at least a *nod* of recognition that Harry is the son of 
> Lily.
> 
> And there isn't. There's been no hint at all that Snape sees Harry 
> as anyone other than James's son.  No hint, other than the OoP 
> Pensive scene, that Snape even knows Lily.  

Oh, I looove your acronyms (*so* clever, and a thing I am not good 
at), but your assessment of Snape-loves-Lily-so-he-can't-not-love-her-
son, well...  Spend a few days watching the news if you don't already 
and pay particular attention to instances of felony child abuse by 
boyfriends in the house.  There appears actually (according to people 
who actually study this stuff) to be a substantial minority incidence 
of biological imperative on the part of the new male to eliminate his 
retroactive rival's issue.  There's one part that has to do with 
ridding the gene pool of that rival's DNA, but mostly it seems to 
have to do with relieving the female of the need to spend resources 
on children not his; the male is in that case all about getting his 
*own* children on the female.  (Granted, things obviously never went 
so far (shudder) in the case of Snape/Lily.) And, while I tend to be 
a sucker for LOLLIPOPS, I will not be very disappointed or surprised 
if it turns out false. But I am very convinced that Snape-loves-Lily-
and-hates-her-son-with-James is completely RW possible. Besides, with 
Lily dead, Harry could be a constant reminder of the children Severus 
can never have with her as well.

Sandy aka "msbeadsley"