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

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 111333

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

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I don't know...but, it very well could be a matter of Snape's pride, 
as you say.  He may have thought that Lily pitied him, and that made 
him angry.  It sounds like an angry, emotional outburst due to 
humiliation in front of someone he may have secretly liked rather 
than a deliberate attempt to malign her.  Just a thought.

Cindy