Snape's love interest

[lady.indigo at gmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 139790

On 9/8/05, theadimail <theadimail at yahoo.co.in> wrote: 
> 
> There has been lot of speculation that Snape's love interest was Lily. 
> Though this looks unlikely after the pensieve scene in Book5, many 
> people have either taken it for granted or simply have not taken any 
> stand on the matter. It is one of the least argued points in the 
> cannon.
> I think however that Snape's love interest is Narcissa Malfoy. It is 
> his love for her that prompted Snape to make the Unbreakable Vow. I 
> also think that Narcissa is aware of the fact and that is why, she 
> turned to Snape for help in the first place. 
> How does the theory sound?
> Regards,
> Adi

 Your theory has been posed before, and there was a whole thread on it, 
though I'm not sure if you took part in that; I wasn't paying too much 
attention to it. 
 Just wanted to correct you here, though: Snape/Lily fans don't *discount* 
Book 5 when posing their theories, they in fact take it as a major piece of 
evidence. Why does Lily seem so surprised when Snape, a Slytherin who runs 
with a prejudiced pureblood crowd, calls her by that name? Why is this, of 
all things, Snape's worst memory? Why does Lily have such a huge role in the 
memory at all, really, if the memory is dealing with Snape and his 
relationship with the Marauders? Snape/Lily fans take all that into account 
as major pieces of evidence FOR our ship. (And yes, it's mine too.)
 I think there's a lot more to be said for Snape/Lily and the connections 
between their characters than Snape/Narcissa, which I can see the reasoning 
for but it doesn't 'fit' the same way for me. Just my opinion, of course. 
But I don't often look at a ship and feel very strongly that it's going in a 
canon direction. And I feel that way about Snape/Lily, even if it's just on 
an unrequited crush level.
 - Lady Indigo (who's still here, just busy)


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