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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "brandy" <porcupine88 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
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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

I've often wondered if his reaction to Lily isn't what made that
memory Snape's *worst* (assuming that the chapter is objectively
titled by Jo, instead of according to Harry's assumtion, which it may
or may not have been, though it seems unlikely to have been Harry's
assumption because Harry doesn't ever really make that assumption in
the chapter) rather than what James did to him.  I sincerely believe
that he must have known he had no chance with her anyway, but I've
considered the possibility that he blames himself for saying what he
said to her that day for ruining the chance that he has, in hindsight,
created for himself.

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