Prank on Snape

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Casmir wrote:
> Has anyone thought that there was more to the prank played on Snape by 
> Sirius, regarding Remus at a full moon in the Shrieking shack; from 
> which James saved Snape?  
> 
> Theories anyone?  Perhaps one theory is that it may have had something 
> to do with Lily?  (I am open and undecided about the whole Snape/Lily 
> thing.)
> 
> I just get this feeling that JKR gave us that particular memory for a 
> reason beyond showing mutual malice between James & gang and Snape.


I think that Lily has *everything* to do with *everything*. As I
posted yesterday, I'm a bit surprised that everybody thinks it was
Snape who had a crush on Lily. Probably. But, does anybody else (apart
from me) think that Lily could have had a bad boy syndrome too? I'm
not stating that she had to be in love with him, or something. Maybe
she wanted to be friends with him. She seems to be the kind of girl
who takes pity on people like Snape and so, she could have tried to
know him better, to give him an opportunity. 

I also have the intuition that there's something of Lily in Snape's
book, maybe some of the annotations are the results of their working
together. Two excelent potion-makers in the same year? the Slug Club?
And the way that Slughorn describes Lily? She was an intuitive and
clever girl, qualities that Snape would appreciate without any doubt.
And the nickname Half-Blood Prince, that so proudly pronounces Snape
in front of Harry, don't you think it would be the kind of nickname,
that Lily would use to call Snape, half-jokingly, half-fondly?

And if the joke that Sirius played on Snape (and we don't know if they
spoke face to face or not) had an imaginary date with Lily in the
SS...? Or something like that? I think that there's usually more rage
and more remorse if you break with someone and then you think it was a
mistake than when the other person breaks with you. Add the fact that
Lily is dead, that she sacrified herself for Harry, and that Snape is
partially culpable for it... Don't you think it is a way of explaining
 his bitterness?

Silver (a non native English speaker, so sorry if this is a bit messy)