Snape Loved or In-Love with Lily?

[Deb]

No: HPFGUIDX 148649

(Big snip)

 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!)

I think Snape may well have been at Godric's Hollow and the only canon 
I can point to for support of this is Harry's very first dream at 
Hogwart. (SS, chapter 7)
 "...He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to 
him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was 
his destiny. Harry told the turban  he didn't want to be in Slytherin; 
it got heavier and heavier; he tried to pull it off but it tightened 
painfully -- and there was Malfoy, laughing at him as he struggled 
with it -- then Malfoy turned into the **hook-nosed teacher, Snape**, 
whose laugh became high and cold -- there was a burst of green light 
and Harry woke up sweating and shaking". (emphasis added)
 While Harry had remembered flashes of green light previously and had 
thought they were from the "car crash" that killed his parents, he'd 
never previously associated them with a laugh or anything else. So why 
would his unconscious mind mix the light with the laugh plus 
the "hooked nose". It LV's laugh that is high and cold not Snape's. 
And LV does not have a hooked nose! Given that Harry was only 15 
months old when his parents were killed his memories of that night 
would be vague and incomplete as he would have not had enough 
vocabulary to describe what happened. Memories from very early child 
hood are often strictly sensory memories - remembering a scent or a 
color or the shape of something rather than any real understanding of 
what the memory might mean. But being exposed to that sense image 
later in life could very well trigger the emotions associated with it. 
At the time of this dream Harry does not know about LV being wrapped 
up in Quirrell's turban. And he does not know how truly dispicable 
Malfoy's father is (or Malfoy himself IMO). Nor has he experienced 
Snape's animosity towards him. But perhaps his unconscious, toddler 
memory does remember that hooked nose, the laugh, the green light.. 
and the fear that followed from that combination.  
 We have seen on other occasions that combining two spells can have 
unpredictable results... ie Harry and LV in the graveyard, and the 
scene on the train going home at the end of GOF where Malfoy ends up 
being hit with Jelly-Legs plus Furnunculus Curse and George 
remarks "Looks like those two shouldn't be mixed. He seems to have 
sprouted little tentacles all over his face". And AFAIK the only times 
we've seen buildings getting accidentally damaged from a spell was in 
CoS when Ron's wand backfired on Professor Lockhart and blasted down 
part of the tunnel leading to the CoS .... and in Godric's Hollow. So -
- what if DD knows Snape is loyal because he knows that Snape went to 
GH to try to thwart LV and that Snape shouted *Expelliarimus* or some 
other spell just as LV was yelling *AK* at Harry. And what if those 
two spells combined to create the explosion that destroyed Lily and 
James's house and were part of the reason LV got kicked out of his 
body. 
 As for how he could be there when he was at Hogwarts teaching... well 
Halloween in 1981 was on a Saturday... maybe he took the weekend off. 
As someone else said... a quick zip down to the gate, apparate to GH, 
follow LV and PP, and TA DA.... here comes Snape. 

Deb (aka djklaugh) who still wonders who Florence is and who she was 
snogging behind the greenhouse when Bertha was spying....