Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 148488

> >>Sydney:
> <snip> 
> Speaking of Unrequited Love, nasty as Snape is, I don't think he  
> would do this.  Not because it's wrong, but because IMO the LAST   
> thing a guy like that would want would be to ACTUALLY GET THE     
> GIRL.  I mean, then he'd have to, like, TALK TO HER.  Noooo...    
> nice mile-high pedestal, that's the safe place for girls Snape    
> likes.
> <snip>


Betsy Hp:
So there's no need to convince me that Snape/Lily is where it's at. 
<g>  (Carton from "A Tale of Two Cities"!! Never made the connection 
before and please let JKR's bucket of tears convince her to not do a 
similar thing to her own readers!)  And I totally agree that Snape 
would *never* use a love potion to get a girl, for a multitude of 
reasons, mainly boiling down to he's too noble.  But Snape never 
talking to Lily?  I suspect that not only did Snape talk to Lily (as 
one of Slughorn's two potions prodigies), I suspect he may have hung 
at her house a time or two.  Hence Petunia's "horrid boy" comment.

But I *do* agree that he'd have done his best to never let his more 
romantic feelings slip and Lily probably suspected nothing.  (Or if 
she did suspect I think she'd be too kind to let him know she knew. 
A sort of "we'll just ignore the elephant in the corner" sort of 
thing.)

Betsy Hp