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

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Marika wrote:
>>> 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...<<<


Valerie says:

This is my first post, so I hope that I am following the rules here,
but I thought it would be interesting to chime in on this issue.
During the whole "Mudblood" incident with Snape, Lily and James were
not really friends at this point.  If anything, she thought James was a show off.  If this incident marks the end of Lily and Snape's
friendship, it is possible that James and the gang never really knew
how close Lily and Snape had been before Lily and James became involved in each other.  The guys all hated Snape already and it is possible that Lily just decided to stop defending him because he was well on this way to becoming a Death Eater.