[HPforGrownups] Re: But DID James listen? (was LID!Snape rides again )

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 150052

Betsy Hp:
I agree that Lily was fully involved in the effort to protect Harry.
However, what she doesn't know about, she cannot protest.  
And we do have canon that James *did* keep Lily out of his private war with
Snape.  Lupin tells us that James did not stop hexing Snape and that he kept
that fact from Lily.

So I can totally see Snape trying to talk to Lily, pass on his information
to someone *he* trusts, and being stopped by James.  
Lily need never have known.  In fact, if Snape was expressing distrust of
Sirius, I expect James would have done his best to make sure Lily never
heard of it.




Sherry now:
But James and Lily were several years older when this would have happened.
I doubt James is still hexing Snapey.  Also, nobody but Snape ever says a
bad thing about James.  It's always about what a great man he was.  I know
it's 100 percent possible for someone who was a rotten brat in teenage years
to grow up to be a good honorable man.  I'm not convinced that James would
have kept poor sainted Lily out of the loop.  oh, how I hope to hear
something negative about perfect Lily in the last book!

Sherry