Best yet! Plus Harry the horcrux, and who does Snape love?

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 134146

psyche wrote:
> My overal thoughts on HBP - I think it's the best yet by far

zgirnius: Couldn't agree with you more there!

psyche:
> What I'm currently very interested in is the question of who Snape 
> loves (Jo has said we'll learn more about this in book 7, soit must 
> be significant). My own theory is that this is key to his 
motivation. 
> There is good reason, I think, to believe that he was in love with 
> Lily. 

<snip excellent summary of evidence for Snape love of Lily theory>

psyche again: 

>I felt that he agreed because he couldn't 
> bear to see her cry. On pg 38, "Snape said nothing. He looked away 
> from the sight of her tears as though they were indecent, but he 
> couldn't not pretend not to hear her." I now think I was barking up 
> the wrong tree, though. Perhaps it was affection for Draco that 
> changed his mind.

zgirnius again:
You know, I'm really glad you put both the Narcissa and Lily theories 
in the same post. I've been reading the other Lily/Snape posts, but 
was personally very surprised/moved by Snape's reaction to Narcissa 
in Chapter 2 as well. Reading the two side-by-side I have just been 
struck by an idea about why Snape has a strong reaction to Cissy. 
Obviously they have probably been friendly to some extent. Sytherins, 
part of the same gang, etc. But maybe what really gets under Snape's 
skin is the similarity of Narcissa's situation to Lily's? He's 
watching a distraught mother pleading for the life of her only 
son...hmmm. Has he seen a similar scene play out in the past? Is he 
imagining how it might have?