Slytherins in love Was: Wasted potential in Pettigrew

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> Carol responds:
> I think you're seeing my position as more extreme than it is. I'm
not
> arguing for St. Severus, only that Snape does not come across as a
> stalker to me. Nor am I denying that his reason for wanting Lily to
> live while not caring about her husband and son is in any way
admirable.
<BIG SNIP>

The way I see it, Snape's love for Lily is love in its purest form.
Let me explain to those with the shocked faces.

It is clear that Snape loved Lily from a very young age.  Likewise,
it is clear that, because of some Snape's choice in friends and
the "Mudblood" incident, Lily will never be able to return that
love.  IMO, Snape accepts this, but continues to love her.  If this
were not the case, he would actively been pursuing her after
the "Mudblood" incident, which it isn't canon that he doesn't, but I
think we can assume. He doesn't want her to be spared from Voldemort
because he plans to pursue her.  Like I said, I believe he had
already accepted that because of his previous choices, it would
never happen for the two of them.   He asks that she be spared,
because he wants her to live and be happy, even if its not eith him.
The reason he only asks for her to be spared, IMO, is because asking
Voldemort to not kill Harry when he was intent on doing so would
have been as good as suicide.  Instead he asks DD to help protect
all three, even his most hated rival James, because they made Lily
happy.

IMO, pure love is a love that is shown when the happiness of the
loved is much more important to the lover than his/her own
happiness.  Snape shows this, from his fifth year on, that he
continues to love her, even though he knows he will have the
happiness that comes from being with her.  He even accepts that
James, the person he hates above all others aside from maybe Sirius,
makes her happy, and thus wishes to protect him as well.  I wouldn't
call this obsessive, as that has a negative connotation to it.  Is
it something that he thought about all the time?  I believe so, but
not to the point of being able to think of nothing else, which is
what I take obsessive to mean.

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