Greatest creation

[ronnie]

No: HPFGUIDX 173428

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowena_grunnionffitch" 
<G3_Princess at ...> wrote:
> Could her point have been that if Snape hadn't loved Lily he would
> have stayed a Death Eater?
> 
> rowena_grunnioffitch
>

expectopatronnie:

I believe that JK's point is NOTthat Snape is good becuase he love 
LILY POTTER, but that someone still capable of love, cannot be ESE. 
Snape has loved Lily ever since he was a small child, even though he 
had terrible parantage, not at all supporting and loving (as Lennon 
puts it: "How can I find love when love is something that I have 
never had?"). Snape is exceptional, because he could! 
And even though his love is obsessional, limited to only one person 
at the beginning, and although strong - his love is very immature, 
adolecsentic and narrow-scoped, he still IS able to love (unlike LV). 
I stated in an earlier post, how ambivalent I think he must feel 
towards Harry: How do you think Ron would have felt towards a 
potential child or Harry and Hermione? Or worse: How would Harry feel 
towards Draco and Ginny's son (with his white blond hair and his 
knack to snigger, behind those honey-brown eyes)? 
The capacity to love and be empathic, is what makes a healthy (good?) 
person as opposed to an antisocial personality. Snape is neither here 
nor there: He is a complex character, able to deal with a small range 
of feelings to others, but not to all. I totally agree that his 
ability to love has evolved during the 16 years since Lily was 
murdered, and while his compassion was limited to Lily only at the 
age of 21, at his deathbed it is much more developed (I give DD the 
full credit for creating a surrounding where this was possible). 
Still, the scars of his youth, including the terrible fate of being 
the rejected, ridiculed teenager, still show to the very end. 
BTW, I think it is pretty obvious now why James chose to lead the 
torment of Sev, Lily's best freind and a possible competition for her 
love.Someone wrote she found the nickname "Sev" hard to digest, but 
at least, she wrote, it was not "Sevie". Well, it was Sev and not 
Sevie, exactly because Lily potter's feelings to Snape were very 
friendly, but not Romantic. 

ronnie, 
who is growing fonder and fonder of Snake-killed-Snape by the moment, 
as limited and complex as he may be.