Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 148613


> houyhnhnm:

> 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.

houyhnhnm-I-often-quote-myself-It-adds-spice-to-my-conversation:

I've been thinking: What if Snape *was* trying to warn Harry against
treachery in the WW (not *his* treachery but someone else's).  He is
good at riddles. He is an expert on 1000 magical herbs and fungi,
probably knows their symbolic meanings, too.

And poor Harry.  He didn't have a clue about the literal answers, let
alone the subtext.  No wonder Snape was disgusted with him.  But then
again, he was expecting an awful lot of an 11 year old boy.