ACID POPS and Teenager Draco/ some LOLLIPOPS

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Neri wrote:
But what about its *potential* for Book 7? (you probably ask). So lets
look at the prospects of the Snape-Harry relationship for Book 7.
Suppose LOLLIPOPS comes true and Harry has his NOOOOOO! NOT MY
MOOOTHER! moment. Big yawn for us since we've been speculating about
it for at least 4 books, but Harry certainly would care. What then?
How does this revelation add to the development of Harry's character?
How does it develop his relationship with Snape?

Julie:
In this narrow, unimaginative version, it would be a yawn. But
I think we can agree JKR has never been constrained by a lack of
imagination ;-) For instance, what if it's a version of LOLLIPOPS
where Snape and Lily had a friendship? Snape *admired* Lily and
perhaps even had a mild crush on her, but he didn't harbor an
obsessive and still unrequited romantic love for her. It hurt
him that he lost her friendship and perhaps her respect. (And 
certainly whatever he felt for Lily he would have found her 
taste in husband material very lacking indeed, but that does
not have to be the main thrust behind Snape's feelings about
Lily. In fact, if this was the main thrust of Snape's feelings
for Lily--bitterness at losing her to James--then Snape would
likely hate her for it, and demean her to Harry as much as he
demeans James.)
 
Suppose Harry finds this out. Instead of "GROSS, THE GREASY GIT
LOVED MY MOTHER!" it is "HOW COULD MY MOTHER HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN
FRIENDS WITH THAT GREASY GIT??!" Yes, he's appalled at first, 
but he has to wonder what his mother saw in Snape that she had
*any* sort of positive relationship with him. This is certainly
enough to make him question his own view of Snape, at least 
enough to figure out how Snape got from someone his mother 
actually respected and perhaps even LIKED the man Harry hates
without reservation. Hmm, perhaps he missed something...

That's just one example of a revelation about the relationship
between Snape and Lily (and I do believe they had some sort of
relationship, not just some one-sided fixation) that would have
plenty of potential to change Harry's own relationship with 
Snape and to develop his character. I'm not even getting into
the concept of Snape having made some sort of promise to Lily
about Harry, or any of a dozen other wrinkles that could have
been present in a relationship between Snape and Lily. (For 
instance, was Snape that "horrid boy" Petunia refered to once.)
But there is plenty of opportunity for JKR to show Snape and
Lily's relationship to have been such that the revelation could
have a great deal of impact on Harry. However, there is really
no chance whatsoever for a relationship between Snape and 
Narcissa to have any impact on Harry.
 
Julie, who has more to add but must get back to work!
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