Snape as having been loved.

[greenfirespike]

No: HPFGUIDX 136419

Eggplant wrote:

> Question: "Has Snape ever been loved by anyone?"
>  
> JKR: "Yes, he has, which in some ways makes him more culpable even 
> than Voldemort, who never has".
> ===
> 
> If Rowling says Snape is more culpable than Voldemort in ANY sense
> then Snape most have done something pretty horrific, like murdering
> the wisest kindest character in the book. Some things are beyond
> redemption and that is one of them. I think the person who loved Snape
> was Lilly in her 6th year, she didn't start going with James until the
> 7th .  In the 6th they both would have been taking Advanced Potions
> and both were good at it. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Lilly
> didn't give him the playful nickname "The Half Blood Prince".
> 


Greenfirespike says:

Although I personally don't like the idea that Lilly and Snape were 
perhpas dating, that doesn't mean they didn't.  (as an aside, I didn't 
like the idea of DD dying either, but oh well!)  Lilly was also a half-
blood, and the idea of the two of them growing close together appears 
to have merit. It would also explain the strong hatred between James 
and Snape.  

Of course, of the little we know about Snape's mother, the Price 
herself, perhaps it is also likely that JRK meant that Snape and a 
loving mother or father.

Finally, from the quote I only get that Snape has been loved, not that 
he has ever loved anybody (not to knock the Snape/Lilly shipers).

Greenfirespike - who took a peek at Mugglenet's GrandPre's calendar and 
noticed in the "Cage of Light" that Lilly appears to be emerging out of 
the wand with James already standing there.  She must have drawn it 
based off of the first edition of GOF.