The picture of Lily and Harry

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 175032

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Katie" <anigrrrl2 at ...> wrote:
> ***Katie:
> 
> Now, here's one of those circumstances where I think JKR intended 
one  meaning, but I hope for another. I think JKR meant for us to 
think that Snape looking into Harry's eyes was supposed to be him 
wanting  to look into Lily's eyes one last time. I prefer to believe 
that  Snape *was* trying to look into Harry's, not Lily's, eyes, and 
tell  Harry that he, Snape, was a good man. Of course, there is 
nothing in  canon to support this, but I choose to believe that 
interpretation. 
> 
> I would be so disappointed in Snape if his dying moment was spent 
> trying to do something as selfish as see Lily's eyes one more 
time, after all his selfless behavior...it would just be odd. Also, 
they weren't Lily's eyes - they were the eyes of a 17 year old boy 
whom Snape had loathed and tormented for 6 years. I would find that 
more than a little bit creepy. And since I do not usually find Snape 
> creepy - I wouldn't like that. 

Tonks:
I think that Snape projected his hatred for James onto Harry because 
Harry looks just like James, except for his eyes. Maybe Snape came 
to know Harry for Harry, I don't know. DD didn't seem to think that 
Snape ever got over his hatred for James enough to see Harry for who 
Harry was. The whole eye thing now explains why when Snape was 
teaching Harry Occlumency Snape used the pensive. Snape had to take 
the memory of Lily out of his mind so that when he looked into 
Harry’s eyes he would not be ‘wearing his heart on his sleeve’ by 
remembering her. 

If Lily loved her son so much as to die for him, Snape was going to 
protect Harry for Lily’s sake. And that was his motive throughout. 

At the last, I thought that he was looking into Harry’s eyes to 
remind himself what he was dying for. For the love of Lily. Such a 
tragic scene. I don’t see it as creepy. It is just the tragic 
dramatic moment that we would expect from such a tragic character as 
Snape. He was misunderstood. Even in his greatest moment when he 
killed DD, even then Harry thought Snape a coward. He was the 
bravest of them all. And Harry realized that in the end.

Tonks_op