Snape still gives off that stalker vibe to me

[dumbledore11214]

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> Leslie41:
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> Snape's not a stalker.  When he meets Lily he's a child, a lonely, 
> unhappy child, excited that he's noticed someone that seems to 
have 
> something in common with him.  More excited, no doubt, that she's 
a 
> pretty girl.  He's not some old man in a raincoat. He's effing 
*ten*, 
> and so is she. 

Alla:

True, he is ten and he is not a stalker at that time, but we already 
hear the word watches **greedily**, that gives me stalkering vibe.


Leslie41: 
> And he and Lily develop a friendship.  They become best friends, 
in 
> fact.  It's not a "crush".  No one carries a "crush" from 17 to 
37.  
> Snape loves her.  As a woman, yes, but first and foremost as a 
> friend. 


Alla:

And he searches Sirius' room and tears apart a letter that was 
**not** adressed to him and cries over and takes it with him AND he 
tears apart the photograph. It reminds me when police comes to 
search the room and sees many photographs of the woman or man 
stalker wanted. NOT the same but same vibe to me.


 
> His love for her, his anguish at losing her, and his redemption, 
are 
> all dependent on the fact that his emotions are real and true, as 
> true as James' for Lily, or Sirius' for James, or Hermione's for 
> Harry.
>


Alla:

You are likely to be correct, but I most definitely see lots of 
ambiguity in those emotions. They can be read differently and I read 
them that way.