Lily/Snape

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 150524

Joe wrote:

You know I think there might be a bit of one sided Snape love for 
Lily come out but is there really much canon for it beyond the fact 
that she didn't care for James hexing him?

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Steven1965aaa:

I think there is something to support it, the title "Snape's Worst 
Memory".  I don't think getting taunted and hexed by James would 
have been his "worst memory" because that probably happened all the 
time.  Even though this was a very embarrassing incident, getting "de-
pantsed" in front of all those people, my guess is that this type of 
humiliation at the hands (wands) of James/Sirius happened to Snape a 
lot, especially since he was so ready with his wand as James 
approached.  IMO Snape's "worst memory" was calling Lily a mudblood. 
If he felt unrequited love for her, that was the moment whan he blew 
any chance which he ever may have thought he had.  Even if it was 
just a matter of Lily being someone who was kind to him, that would 
also be a particularly bad memory for him, the moment when he said 
something so hurtful to her that it ended the "friendship".