[HPforGrownups] Re: HPB writing/ Snape Timeline/ poor Lupin, and some other replies

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 134370

Kathy wrote:
This all confuses me as well. Dumbledore said that Snape had been
spying prior to the fall of Voldemort. Sibyll's prophecy was prior to
Harry's birth. How much prior we don't know. We now know that Snape
told Voldemort and it probably wasn't a big deal to a 22 year old 
that I tend to picture much like a nasty Percy. When he found out 
that it was the Longbottoms and Potters, he panicked. These were 
people that he new, and at least one of them, he liked. 

vmonte responds:
Who did Snape like? I must have missed that in the books. To me Snape 
seems to have really hated the Potter parents and by the way he 
treats Neville in school, he probably hated his parents too. Snape 
seems to hate anyone that is more popular and talented than he is. 



Sherry now:

Adding to what was said above:  it seems that so many in fandom have come to
believe that Snape must have liked or loved Lily, that it has come to seem
almost like canon.  However, there is actually no canon support for that.
In fact, in the one scene in which we see Snape and Lily interact, he calls
her a dirty name, even though she was trying to defend him from a pack of
bullies.  (not that I think we've seen all that really happened in that
scene of course.)  i haven't received my braille copy of the book yet, so
just trying to remember the audio, doesn't Snape refer to Lily as a mudblood
again, in the fight with Harry at the end, after he murdered Dumbledore?  I
have serious doubts the Snape liked any of the Potters or Longbottoms.  He
must have been dancing with joy when he knew that James was finally dead.


Sherry