Snape and Lily as friends- How could Harry not know?

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 172635

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "guzuguzu" <guzuguzu at ...> wrote:

With reference to DH, the Prince's Tale: Does anyone else find it
completely implausible that that Harry would not have known if Snape
and Lily were "best friends" for at least five years of their lives?
Especially since they both hated James? It could not have escaped the
Marauders who the Griffindor girls of their year hung around with,
especially if they were hanging around with "slimy git" Slytherns, yet
Sirius and Lupin never mention this fact to Harry, though they had
several good places to do it:
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So, I wonder what Rowling was thinking? Was it that Snape's erspective
led us and Harry)to believe that he and Lily were better friends than
they were? Lily actually agrees that they are "best friends", so that
doesn't seem right. Maybe they were meant to be secret friends?
However it's really not presented that way in Snape's memories at all.
I am truly inclined to think it was that Rowling did not decide the
exact nature of the Snape-Lily friendship through until she was in the
middle of writing DH, but I welcome any theories to explain this.

guzu


Marika:
I think you're absolutely right about them not being secret friends.
She told him that her friends did not understand why she was his
friend, and he also said he was going to sleep outside the Gryffindor
entrance if she did not talk to him.
I'm just as confused myself why Lupin never told Harry.(Black disliked
Snape so much that I doubt he would ever say anything "good" about
him.) The only thing I can come up with is that Snape told Lupin not
to tell (like he one had asked Dumbledore), and that Lupin agreed
because he thought that Harry didn't need to know...