Love & Snape (was love between Snape & Harry)

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 98351

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> SSSusan replies:
> LOL!  I don't recall if Kneasy suggested that Snape had a family 
> which Voldy killed or not, but I can feel fairly confident that if 
he 
> did, his theory didn't include any kind of "loving situation" for 
> Snape--past, present or future!  
> 
>
I remember that theory, though I don't know who first proposed it.  
I think it was suggested that Snape might have fallen in love with 
someone like Lily - an opponent of LV who became too dangerous and 
was taken care of.  I don't know why, but this seems less likely to 
me.  LV is a ruthless killer, but he also knows how to hold his 
supporters.  As he says to Pettigrew, "Lord Voldemort rewards his 
helpers."  I don't think he'd deliberately do something to turn a 
useful servant against him; he seems to me to be more likely to 
say, "You want her?  She's yours!  When we rule the world, you can 
have any woman you want!"  I mean, he must be offering his followers 
SOMETHING, and that would be a pretty standard way of rewarding 
followers.  

Wanda