Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 148492


> houyhnhnm:

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>  "Potter!" said Snape suddenly. "What would I get if I added powdered
> root of *asphodel* to an infusion of *wormwood*?" 
>  [...]

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> In the language of flowers:
> My regrets follow you to the grave. I am infused with your absence. 
> Find me an antidote for my misanthropy.

Ooh, yes-- I love that.  I can't remember when I first heard someone
point out the meaning of asphodel-- a memeber of the lily family, by
the way!  It is meant to grow in Hades where the virtuous dead are.

Wormwood of course, is also 'bitterness'.  I think the answer to what
you get when you mix asphodel and wormwood, is Harry himself-- Lily +
James.  What you actually get is the draught of sleeping death IIRC...
perhaps that's how Snape sees himself since Harry, by being born,
sealed Snape's fate as the betrayer of Lily (see?  Isn't Snape/Lily
just such gloriously over-the-top melodrama?  I LOVE it!)?  Anyways, I
think Snape was half talking to himself when he asked that question.

Betsy HP:
>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.

Oh, the 'horrid boy' was SO Snape-- so, actually, you're right-- I
should scale it back to Snape not talking to Lily about anything he
might have felt.. although, given that he was 15 at the time of the
'mudblood' incident, I'm having a hard time working out a timeline
where he would have gone to Lily's house before she married James. 
And why would they be having a conversation about Azkabahn?  Write
faster, Jo!

--Sydney