Snape's DE past

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No: HPFGUIDX 111280

 Kneasy wrote:
> I did attempt to put the record straight last year with my AGGIE 
post
> (77800)  wherein I pointed out that there was an equal likelihood
> that it was Lily who had the hots for Sevvy but was spurned as 
Snape
> dedicated his life to a fulfilling career torturing Muggles. 
> In fact the evidence in canon, though indirect, tends to be more
> supportive of AGGIE than LOLLIPOPS. 


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Man your cannons...erm, canon.  Here it is, JKR's endorsement of 
AGGIE:

>From the Edinburgh Festival 
> "I hesitate to say that I love him. [Audience member: I do]. You 
do? 
> This is a very worrying thing." ...
" Girls, stop going for the bad guy. Go for a nice man 
> in the first place. It took me 35 years to learn that, but I am 
> giving you that nugget free, right now, at the beginning of your 
> love lives."

JKR wasn't talking to the fans, she was talking to Lily!  Give up 
Sevvy, go out with Jimmy....

OK, maybe not.

The biggest drawback to Severus loves Lily is that if he loved Lily, 
would he join the DEs in the first place? If he carried a torch 
for Lily how could he treat her son so badly?

Now, if she rejected him in a cruel manner and he was out to get 
revenge on both James and Lily, then that wouldn't explain why he 
left LV.

But I think there may be a Lily-Severus connection which I will 
hopefully put some thought into before I post.

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