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

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 173554

> Jen: 
> > But it seems to me that Severus, unlike his "little Death Eater 
> > friends" who openly express their ambition to become DEs, is torn 
> > between Lily and the DEs. IMO, He's teetering on the edge like 
> > Draco in HBP trying to choose between killing and not killing DD 
> > and. like Draco, is unable to choose. Yes, *she* says that he has
> >  made his choice, but that's her interpretation based on his
> > friends and his use of the word "Mudblood." 

zgirnius:
It is probably the romantic in me rearing her sappy head, but I think 
the reason Snape says so darned little in that post-SWM scene is that 
he has reached a point where he is desperate enough to confess his 
feelings to Lily in the hope this will make a diference to her. But 
is so insecure/lacking in social polish that he can't find a way to 
bring it up. Her parting shot, "Why should I be any different?" 
caused him to 'strugle on the verge of speech' (it was probably the 
best lead-in she gave him, if I am right...) But that was when she 
spun around and went back inside the Common Room.


> Jen:  I got the sense Lily had already given him a second chance 
when 
> she continued their friendship despite her friend's objections, 
> despite what Snape's friends had done to Mary, a fellow Gryffindor 
> (whatever it was).  

zgirnius:
Not necessarily even second chance. We got just the one chapter, so 
every scene had to count. I think the first scene is there to 
establish that there was a pattern or trend in the relationship 
before its end, not necessarily to suggest that he got exactly two 
chances.

Harry sees that Snape pays no attention to her comments about his 
friends in that scene, after he is reassured on the point that Lily 
still sees James as a 'toerag'. I wonder if she noticed that 
inattention, and ascribed it to the wrong reason.