[HPforGrownups]To the Extreme/Snape, Lily&Potions

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 164871

Magpie:
But Lily Potter's child doesn't look like Tom. He looks like James and Lily 
herself.

Snow:
In COS, Tom says "...We even look something alike..." pg, 317

Magpie:
Didn't rememer that. You got me there! So Tom refers to a vague similarity 
of looks between him and Harry that no other character remarks on (including 
Harry that I can remember). But why would Harry develop a physical 
resemblance to Tom because Merope gave her magic to Lily (who still hasn't 
been born for years after Merope dies)?

Alla:
But please tell me honestly did you at all expected DD death by Snape's hand 
before book 6?  Not while you were reading HBP, because I know some people 
figured it out since Spinner end, but after OOP, did you think of that at 
all?

What hints in the story showed to you **that** possibility, or probably what 
beats?

So, I am not sure that HBP connection with Harry is not a red herring, that 
is all.

Magpie:
Now you're making me totally want to see this Dark!Lily. She really is more 
interesting than the Sainted one--and Harry sure has overlooked her.

I didn't see Snape killing DD at all before HBP--didn't see that coming at 
all! I've no idea how the next book will go either. I guess the reason I 
feel like the Potions book can't be a red herring is that it was the 
solution to a mystery already. It's like saying that it turns out Faux!Moody 
wasn't really Barty Crouch when that was a mystery brought up and solved in 
GoF.

-m (who is refraining from responding to a post that was presumably meant 
off list just to say she did not "blow up" Hagrid's calling Filch a Squib 
into a racist remark but simply said, as the post itself did, that it was 
hurtful and based on prejudice...oops, I guess I'm not refraining!;-)