Lily and Snape

[Auria]

No: HPFGUIDX 140412

> Magpie wrote:
> 
> Lily could certainly be good at Potions.  My own suggestion (that 
maybe Lily was like Harry in that Slughorn thought Lily was better 
> at Potions than she was) came into my head only because we're 
> hearing about Lily's great gift at Potions the same time we're 
> hearing about Harry's gift for it.  But I've got no real reason 
> at this point to believe that Lily couldn't be just as good at 
> Potions as Slughorn says she was.(snipped)
> Not that I think the conversation is pointless at all.  With all 
> the emphasis put on Lily being good at Potions it does seem like 
> it's going to go *somewhere*, and a friendship or partnership 
> between Lily and Snape makes sense.  

Auria responds:
There is a good debate going on in these posts as to whether we 
beleive that Lily was good at potions or whether Slughorn was over-
praising her for whatever reason.  One bit of canon evidence that has 
not yet been given previously is the quote from PoA by Lupin.  He did 
tell Harry that Lily was a 'singularly gifted witch'.  That would 
suggest that Slughorn's appraisal of her is accurate.