Lily shutting the door WAS: Re: Dumbledore Disgusted

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No: HPFGUIDX 175909

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> > > Alla:
> > > 
> > > Sure if Lily had something to answer for, I would agree that 
> > > characters in Potterverse at sixteen are held to it. But Lily 
is 
> > > culpable? I find it truly mind boggling.

Mim:

I see all this talk about Lily not forgiving Snape and she doesn't 
really have to answer for that in my book. I'd like her to answer as 
to why she didn't truly interfere in the worst memory. Because we 
have her wandless friend, who has not yet called her a mudblood, 
choking on soap bubbles on the ground and Lily doesn't bother to 
lift the spell. Then her friend who has not yet called her a 
mudblood, is turned upside down and she's amused. She's too busy 
doing her little mating dance with James to truly do much. And after 
her friend does call her a mudblood she insults him in turn and then 
leaves him to his fate, namely James removing his pants. She doesn't 
interfere magically and she doesn't, from what we can tell, alert a 
teacher. All in good fun.

Then Snape begs her forgiveness but she's already made her choice. 
And it looks like she had made her choice before, anyway. She's sick 
of making excuses (to her friends, I presume who can't see why she 
would hang out with someone slimy, unpopular and bigoted). Lily 
isn't a saint and the mudblood incident is a perfect chance to end 
the friendship while on the moral high ground.

I wonder what she would have done if Snape had said he wouldn't join 
the Death Eaters. According to  JKR she could love him back if he 
hadn't chosen the DE over her but I somehow don't really see it from 
what we've seen on the text. The popular and pretty girl had to end 
up with the rich and handsome jock, not the poor goth weirdo :)
 
Mim