Lily. Was: Prank revisited.

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 99256

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

Renee
>Of course, it would take a saint to ignore Snape's reaction 
> > altogether; that Lily pays him back in kind shows she's no saint 
or 
> > angel but a normal human being. It's what she does next that I 
find 
> > so disappointing. 

<snip>

>she leaves, practically begging James to continue his torment 
> > of Snape. After all, how else is he to remain cool in the eyes  
> > of the general public? 

> > Would James have turned Snape upside down again if Lily had 
stayed, 
> > without defending Snape verbally, yet showing she wasn't going 
to 
> > abandon her responsibility as a prefect? I don't think so. > 
> 

Ally: 

> The question I want to ask - does it really matter? For whatever 
> reasons she wanted to help. She interfered. Snape called her the 
most 
> degrating word possible in the WW as a gratitude. I perfectly 
> understand why she walked away.
> 

Renee:

Oh, I do understand why she walked away. I'm just not inclined to 
excuse it. My problem - and maybe I didn't make myself clear in my 
previous post - is that she's not just Lily Evans in this scene. 
She's a prefect. If she really thinks what James does is wrong, it's 
her duty as a prefect to put an end to his treatment of Snape. By 
walking away, she pracically made sure James would go on. 

Lily may have been right to leave (though she'd already put Snape in 
place verbally). My question is: was *Prefect Evans* right to leave? 
Isn't this another instance of right vs. easy? 

Unless her reason for intervening was drawing James's attention, but 
that would actually make it worse. It would mean she's merely using 
Snape's predicament as a pretext. So yes, to me it does matter why 
she did it.

Renee