The Unloved Son (was Re: Could I be wrong about Snape being evil?)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156676

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
>
> 
>  > That I think is what's happening on the overt narrative level.  
On the
> level of what the heck is going on that makes Snape so crazy, I 
think
> that's SO about Lily.  Snape's attitude Harry just SCREAMS guilt to
> me, guilt that he's displaced onto James in exactly the same way 
that
> Harry's displaced his guilt over Sirius onto Snape.  That's called 
Irony.
> 

colebiancardi:  Why is it guilt over Lily?  I am one of those people 
that is not following that cookie <grin>.  Sure enough, Snape doesn't 
mention Lily to Harry like he does his father - maybe James ASKED 
Snape to protect Lily at one time and Snape failed?  That would mean 
that Sirius never knew that side of James & Snape's relationship.

I dunno.   I never jumped on the Snape loves Lily theory, but I could 
see James, if he was aware that Snape was a spy for DD, cashing in on 
the life debt that Snape owed him and turn it over to Lily.  Snape 
fails with Lily, the debt is still owed, which transfers to Harry.  
According to DD, Snape just wishes he could fulfill that life debt, 
so he could nurse his hatred over a glass of firewhiskey(or something 
like that - it is that quote from PS, which I don't have in front of 
me....)


colebiancardi
(guilt over not fulfulling the life debt could be it)