[HPforGrownups] Sevvy and Mudblood Lil (can't remember the original title, sorry...)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 98731

JCS wrote:
>I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of this, but perhaps
>Snape had a crush on Lily. We know James and Severus hated each other

There is a very longstanding theory (started long before I joined the list)
about Snape and Lily but my own version is very close to yours - he had a
crush on her but it wasn't reciprocated.

>while they were in school.  We also know SS became an acolyte of LV,
>but what we don't know is why he left LV in the first place.  Could
>it be that maybe he couldn't stomach the idea of killing wizards who
>weren't purebloods, as in, Lily's not a pureblood!  And IIRC, didn't
>that whole episode that HP saw in the penseive happen right in front
>of Lily?!  How humiliating!  That would certainly help explain why he
>didn't want her sticking up for him!

Just to introduce another possibility: I wonder if, when Sevvy finally got
away from the Marauders' clutches and limped back to the dungeon to lick his
wounds and plot, he fell to thinking about Lily.

We seem to get the impression that the young Snape wasn't too much of a
ladies' man, the image of the "broomstick girl", apparently laughing at him
being one example. In his circle of associates there's only one girl, Bella,
who I suspect treated _everyone_ like something she'd scraped off her shoe.
And then along comes Mudblood Lil (his phrase, not mine) and stands up for
him in front of his enemies. Raging teenage hormones being what they are, he
ends up developing a huge crush on her.

>Why would a highly intelligent man whose worst childhood enemy is more than
a
>decade dead, feel it necessary to mistreat that enemy's son?  Maybe because
>he sees Lily's eyes looking back at him from James' face every day in
class,
>reminding him inescapably of the green-eyed children he will never have.
Why
>did he turn from Voldemort?  Maybe because Voldemort threatened Lily--if
not her
>life, then all the things that she held dear.  Why go to Dumbledore,
instead
>of just Apparating to the furthest possible locale and disappearing?  Maybe
>because Dumbledore was the most likely person to find a way to protect
Lily.
>Why did Voldemort tell Lily to stand aside first, instead of killing her
out of
>hand?  Maybe because a favored servant requested it of him.
>
>For me, it also puts a slightly different spin on the whole Pensieve scene
>and the question "Been enjoying yourself, Potter?"

Because of course his message to Dumbledore _failed_ and Lily ended up dead
and Harry ended up alive. And Snape's been incubating that for 10 years.

"Why are you alive, Potter, when your mother's dead?"

Cheers

Ffred

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