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

[brandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 111303

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> As captain of LOLLIPOPS I have to step in here.  
*snipping big long thing obviously written before OoP*

Personally, I am a fan of thinking that Snape had a big thing for Lily, though I'm not 
sure how much it had to do with his going over to/coming back from the dark side. I 
do think that it is a big factor in his hatred of Harry, though.

As someone else pointed out, Lily didn't like James much til seventh year. The other 
thing that bothers me is Snape's reaction to Lily chewing out James. He doesn't just 
say he doesn't need her help, he doesn't just snap at her, he flat-out calls her a 
mudblood.  I know that Snape is no master of social graces, but I just can't fathom 
why he goes so far to offend her after she helps him.  I know his pride has been 
wounded, but it seems like he should have just snapped at her and stalked off, then 
maybe after he thought better of it apologized in private. But instead he flips out and 
calls her the dirtiest name in the WW.  How can we reconcile that with the idea of him 
having a crush on her? Or maybe the crush didn't start until after this event, when he 
realized that she was the only person being nice to him?

-Brandy