Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[exodusts]

No: HPFGUIDX 148626

Carol:
> Carol, once again asking 1) what purpose is served by having Snape at
> Godric's Hollow, 2) how he could have been there when we know he was
> teaching at Hogwarts at the time, 3) how and why PP would have
> revealed the secret to him, and 4) what canon evidence can be shown to
> indicate that he was there. (And, yes, I've read the post that Alla
> linked me to. I read it when it was first posted and reread it
> yesterday, and I remain unconvinced. Canon and logic, please!)

Exodusts:
1) It cranks up the tension on Snape. It makes his guilt, shame and 
horror feel all the greater, because he was right there. It makes him 
hate Voldemort even more, because he saw him kill his beloved. It 
provides another secret revelation to present to Harry near the climax.

2) A quick run down to the gates and Apparition?

3) In a note like the one DD used for 12 GOP. Suppose Peter wrote the 
address down. Then everyone who sees that note can get there. Maybe 
Peter the traitor was first approached by Snape. Maybe it was via Snape 
that he became corrupted. When he is later made Secret Keeper, he sends 
the address to Snape via an owl, with instructions to pass the note on 
to Voldemort. Snape has two choices. He can destroy the note to protect 
Lily and James, but then he'll have to go on the run from LV, and Peter 
might still pass the info on another time. OR he can avoid having to 
become a fugitive and take a risk, by passing the note on to LV, and 
trying to engineer the situtation to his own advantage by asking LV to 
spare Lily.

4) There is evidence from JKR's sinister refusal to comment that 
*someone* was there.