Snape/Lily love or obsession

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No: HPFGUIDX 172874

> 
> Julie:
> What obsessive side? The obsessive side where he stalked her around
> town, where he begged her over and over to take him back, where 
he  left
> dead bunnies at her doorstep? Seriously though...
>  <SNIP>
>> The most repeated piece of evidence is Snape as a TEN YEAR OLD  
CHILD
> watching Lily "greedily." Greedy is not a pretty word in general, 
but it  has
> several meanings, and here it's connotation--"longingly" is 
innocuous.  Snape
> is watching something that he wants for himself, or wants to be a  
part of.
> But which is it, because a "stalker" wants that *person* for 
himself,  almost
> always for some sort of romantic/sexual gratification. So Snape is 
a  child
> stalker, a miniature pervert?
<SNIP>


Alla:

No, I find the word used just the possible sign for future 
developments, not a pretty one, no, but if used alone of course I 
won't accuse ten year old of stalking.

The strongest evidence to me of obsession is Snape searching Sirius 
room, taking a **private** letter from one friend to another, 
tearing apart that letter, taking with him the part where Lily 
signature was AND in addition to this, doing something so much 
creepier - tearing apart the photograph that does not belong to him 
either and **KEEPING** it.

I am half expecting as I mentioned  before to see the police finding 
many pictures of Lily in his room

 


Julie:
<SNIP>
> So, love or obsession, you ask. Both, I say. First love, and 
later, on  top 
> of that
> love, obsession with his chosen path to redemption.


Alla:

Both, maybe. But I disagree that creepy signs are not there.


> Lisa:
<BIG SNIP>
>  But what did he do, when faced presented with the 
> opportunity to harm someone he found annoying?  He attempted 
murder-
> by-Lupin.  
<HUGE SNIP>


Alla:

Attempted murder is not in canon and judging by Lily's reaction, I 
would really say it was not that IMO.