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

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 172663

--- 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? 

Dungrollin:
It's worse than that; in the Hospital wing at the end of HBP:

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'Snape passed Voldemort the information that made Voldemort hunt down 
my mum and dad. Then Snape told Dumbledore he hadn't realized what he 
was doing, he was really sorry he'd done it, sorry that they were 
dead.' 
They all stared at him. 
'And Dumbledore believed that?' said Lupin incredulously. 'Dumbledore 
believed Snape was sorry James was dead? Snape hated James'" 
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Dungrollin:
Right. It doesn't occur to Lupin or McGonagall or Slughorn (who were 
all at Hogwarts at the same time and *all* knew them both) that Snape 
might have been sorry that *Lily* died?

Honestly, there are millions of inconsistencies. I no longer believe 
that she had it all planned out from the start. In the 
Leaky/Mugglenet interview after HBP's publication she told us that 
Grindelwald was dead, and that he died in 1945. All that Elder Wand 
loyalty stuff was glued on afterwards.

Though I enjoyed the read, I hate the last five chapters, and on 
further reflection am feeling more and more let down. I don't even 
have the heart to gloat about the stuff I got right.

Dung