Severus Snape: The grudge and the very long LOLLIPOPS biography...

[Emily Anne Rude]

No: HPFGUIDX 111260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
  "JKR herself has hinted that there's more to it than that through
Hagrid, we just don't know what the other factor or factors are."

I'd be interested to know what people think those other factors might
be.  As riveting as romance is, even a mangled one like that proposed
here, I hate to think that every big decision Snape has made was based
on a crush.  Yikes.


> 
> "At this point, Harry hasn't done *anything* to Snape."   


He's the son of the man who (in Snape's mind) ruined Snape's life. 
It's as if the guy who stole everything from you, that you believe you
should have had, had a son who turned out to be even more loved and
esteemed than your original nemesis without even trying.  Meanhile,
you are still risking your life and happiness (for reasons unknown)
for his well being, and he doesn't even know about it.  No one gives
*you* any credit for that, while your worst enemy's son gets to be
everyone's savior just by being alive.  How's that for starters.



> "There even a tiny hint from JKR in a chat I once read (no, no idea
which one, though no doubt someone will be able to say).  I think she
was was asking for questions from an audience and someone asked if
Snape would fall in love.  JKR laughed and asked what made him/her
think of that, and said it was an interesting idea and s/he would find
out why later.  Or something like that which suggested there might in
fact be something in it."  


Oh *no*... Pink Flamingo, anyone?



>  "Severus can't help noticing one of James' greatest fans is a young
redhead called Lily Evans, who has often vied with him for top student
in Charms.  ...treats him with far more respect and reason than her
fellow Gryffindors..."   


Yeah, except that Lily loathed James in OOTP, remember?  Greatest fan,
huh?  I'd like to see from where you got that idea.


 "...but as Lily is always around, he dares not be anything but polite
to him."


Uhhh, really?

  "...his unconvincing attempts to be suave and fawning around her..."


Yes, I'd say calling her a filty mudblood would be pretty darn
unconvincing.


 
> "Though his initial reaction is a terrible glee, as Severus
Apparates to Godric's Hollow, three thoughts simultaneously occur to
him.  The first is that if he kills James, Lily will be single again,
and he might, just might, be able to claim her at last.  The second is
that however much he hates James, he owes him his life.  The third,
and most frightening thought of all, is that even if he did manage to
kill James and claim Lily, his joy would be very brief.  Lily is
Muggle-born, and his next task could well be to kill her himself."


I could really see Snape gnashing his teeth at this paragraph, true or
no.  Oh dear...


> "Suddenly, the rage which has blinded Severus for so many years
begins to evaporate.  Why had he killed those innocent people he had
killed and tortured for Voldemort?  Was it loyalty to Voldemort,
hatred for them, or hatred for am unjust world which always seem to
give most to those who deserved it least?  As the last of the rage
dissipates, it is replaced by a terrible feeling of shame and
self-loathing.  If Lily knew what he has done she would hate him as
much as he hates her husband.  The truth of it hits him like an
iceberg, and he starts to shake all over at the thought of what he has
become.  He knows there is only one thing left that can redeem him. 
He Apparates to the Hogwarts gates, goes straight to Dumbledore and
breaks down completely."


Ah, pulling a Javert on us, is he?  Nnnooo, I *don't* think so. The
last time I heard about something like this happening was in Les
Miserables, and the poor confused inspector ended up drowning himself
rather than reconcile his past.  No matter what anyone says about
Snape's ability to hide his emotions, (which, I must say, sometimes
isn't that evident) I think that if he had an epiphany of that degree
we would be dealing with a whole different character.  ...But maybe
that's just me.