Who was and who was not in love with Lily WAS:Lupin and The Marauders

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> Marianne:
> Sweet saints above, I hope not!  Everyone can't be secretly or not 
> so secretly smitten with Lily!  I disagree with JKR saying that 
> Remus loved her, in the sense that I don't think she meant the 
same 
> type of boy/girl love that grew to exist between Lily and James.  
I 
> think it's safe to say that Lily and Remus were vwey fond of each 
> other as friends. Although, in light of the recent Remus 
discussion, 
> I wonder what Lily's feelings were about Prefect!Remus.
> 
> I'm really against the idea that Sirius was in love with Lily, 
> especially as he knew full well that his best bud James was 
smitten 
> with her. Witness Snape's Worst Memory - it seems obvious to me 
from 
> the dialog between James and Sirius that James is still in the 
dark 
> as to why Lily doesn't like him, even though Sirius helpfully 
points 
> out that he thinks that Lily thinks James is a bit conceited. 
There 
> never seems to be any indication that Sirius is at all interested 
in 
> Lily in a romantic sense.  And, somehow, I can't buy that Sirius 
> would think he had to do away with Snape in order to clear the 
field 
> for James.  Lily doesn't seem remotely interested in Snape, either.
> 


Alla:

Heeee, yes, I sincerely hope that at least Sirius was not in love 
with Lily, I really really do. :)

But I do think that that interview I was talking about indicated 
that Remus had more than friendly feelings for Lily. I think JKR 
said that he was not running around competing for her with James, 
but I thought it was quite obvious that Remus ( at least) liked Lily 
for more than friend.

I also wrote earlier that yes, I am forced to grudgingly join DSnape 
loving Lily bandwagon ( Gah and gag again :-))  and no, I don't 
think Lily had romantic feelings for him, but Snape obsessing over 
Lily? Yeah, unfortunately me thinks it was soo. :)

As to how that can play into Snape/Sirius dynamics? Well, I hope it 
would not, but I can see something along the line that Sirius 
somehow learns that Snape likes Lily and thinks that James deserves 
her more or something like that OR ( I think I read this speculation 
on June Diamanti's LJ - I think, don't want to misrepresent) that 
Snape tried to drug Lily with Love Potion and Sirius learned about 
it somehow and proceed to execute revenge or something.

I hope that it is not so, or at least that Lily was not the only 
reason for Snape/marauders hatred, I really truly do.

JMO,

Alla, who apologises to Marianne for bringing Snape into this post. 
It seems to be a bad habit that she tries to get rid of but not 
always succesfully. :)