Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 148553

Sydney:

> 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 

houyhnhnm:

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that.  I just saw it as one of the two
times when Snape was speaking from the heart. The other being the
tirade against fools who wear their hearts on their sleeves.  I'm
undecided as to whether Snape was conscious of the import of his words
in the first instance.  Was he trying to tell Harry something? Does it
tell us anything? 

I have learned that a variety of narcissus was once called asphodel.
And monkshood, in the late Victorian era, came to stand for treachery,
as well as misanthropy.

So is Snape warning Harry to find himself an antidote to Snape's
treachery or is it a pleading to be delivered from his own misanthropy.

I guess some of us think one way and some think the other and Snape's
self-revealing riddle (if that's what it is) really isn't going to
resolve anything.