[HPforGrownups] Snape's turn to DEs (Re: The Prince interpreted)

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 173552


> Carol:
>> And James? We still don't know what turned him around. It must have
>> been Lily (who still, apparently, didn't want him to hex Severus,
>> who had once been her friend). And James, of course, would have had
>> to stop running with a werewolf and get serious about his
>> responsibilities once he married and fathered a child.
>
> Jen:  Love of Lily no doubt.  She couldn't change Snape so turned her
> sights on James. <g>  I'm kidding although without any information to
> go on it read that way.  Likely James had to clean up his act
> *before* Lily became interested in him, if her characterization is
> consistent.

Shelley
I have to wonder if Lily gave the same talk to James as she did Snape- "I 
don't like how you are acting, what you are like with your friends." The 
difference between Snape and James is that Snape didn't change for Lily, but 
I think James did. I think James could have put pressure on the other 
Marauders to keep a clean act in public so that Lilly would approve of 
him/them, and because of it, he won her love and ultimately her hand in 
marriage. I wonder if part of the vexation for James was only deepened in 
Snape because James did what he should have the first time.