Snape and Harry/ Snape and Lily WAS:Re: My Take on the Whole Snapes

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> 
> Marion:
> <SNIP>
>> Lily rages on and on about *James*. About how AWFUL he is. About 
how much of a showoff he is. About the way he wears his hair and the 
way he wears his clothes and the way he acts. 
> "Oh James Potter, you are just too AWFUL and I haven't been 
watching you like a hawk at all because how else would I know about 
your Quidditch prowess/hairstyle/etc.etc".
> 
> They are *flirting*! Lily and James are *flirting*!
> <SNIP>
>

Alla:

LOLOL. This is quite well known after JKR's post HBP interview that 
Lily indeed was already interested in James at the time of Pensieve 
scene, so really not a big suprise.

Her being interested in James and genuinely despising what he did are 
not IMO mutually exclusive things.

I read her as genuinely wanting to help Snape and James to stop.

Till Snape insults her of course.

No matter how interested Lily may have been, she did not go with 
James till year seven, it tells me that she while may have been 
attracted, also wanted him to change his behaviour.

IMO of course.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sandra Bejster <sbejster at ...> 
wrote:
>
> ... and some not so halfbrained.
> 
> There has recently been discussion as to why Harry
> didn't figure out when he was running away from the
> Dursleys that he could easily transfer his wizard
> money into muggle money.  Well, for one thing he might
> have been afraid that he couldn't go back into the
> wizarding world because of what he did to Aunt Marge. 
> More likely to me is that he is simply an idiot
> teenage boy that doesn't think before he acts.  There
> are many examples of this.  One is that he never
> thinks that Snape HAS to keep acting contemptuous to
> him no matter what because he not only has to keep
> Harry's mind clear of anything incriminating, but his
> own mind as well.  Voldemort can see both into Harry's
> minds and Snapes (Snape HAS to let him or he will look
> suspicious).
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Alla:

Welcome to the list :)

I don't know. There are certainly many examples of Harry thinking 
before he acts, this I would not call one of them.

This argument of Snape **have to** act as a jerk towards Harry, 
because Voldemort will learn and punish Snape dear if he does noy 
always makes me confused.

If Snape is true DE, wouldn't Voldemort **prefer** that Snape has to 
fool Dumbledore as being faithful to their side?

So, what is the best way to do so? Be **nice** to the boy, who is 
supposed to the Dumbledore's **golden boy**, etc?

Yeah, so I do not think that Snape has to act as he acts to fool 
Voldemort at all. Because I do not understand why Snape would need to 
fool Voldemort in that way. Seems quite the opposite to me.