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

[krista7]

No: HPFGUIDX 172680

--- 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? 

My guess is that most people wrote off the Lily/Snape relationship 
as Lily being kind to a social pariah, but nothing personal--
just her being the kind of girl a lot of people were in 
love with, to paraphrase one of JKR's interviews. They probably did 
not "hang out" with others present, just because their pools of 
friends (drawn from their Houses) were so different. So nobody
could say, "Hey, we all partied together back in the day!"

Also, I think the classmates that Harry knew (Sirius and Lupin) were
very blind about people and particularly focused on James. They never 
bring Lily up with Harry because they're too busy worshipping James. 
(And would Lily have likely spoken fondly of Snape in front of James'
Snape-hating buddies? She'd probably have kept that private.)

Krista