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[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 168188

 
> Pippin:
> <snip>
> Lily didn't just drop in from the Planet Koozbain, after all.
> She'd been going to Hogwarts for five years. If Snape 
> had a habit of picking on other people, especially Muggleborns, 
> she'd know about it. She was a popular girl with a lot of friends,
> and she was certainly well up on James's interactions with other
> students.

Neri:
Well, Sirius does explain in OotP that even when Lily was actually
dating James, she didn't know all about his vendetta with Snape, and I
don't see why would Sirius lie about this. But I suspect Lily knows
enough about Severus's reputation in this scene and doesn't care.
There's no indication that Snape interests her at all here. She just
wants so much to pick an argument with James... 


> Pippin:
> Her blink shows she's taken aback by Snape's use of the 
> M word, so it can hardly be something Snape's in the habit
> of saying.

Neri:
Or she could blink because she expects him to have the brain of hold
on the M word for once while she's helping him out of trouble. And
that single blink is the only sign that Lily is surprised at all. In
the next sentence she answers "coolly" and changes tack with ease.
There's no surprised "I didn't think you're one of *those* Slytherins".


> Pippin:
> Lupin's statements about James's acquisition of the levicorpus
> spell sound particularly disingenous. If Snape knew that James
> had stolen the spell from him, how could Lupin not know? I
> can't see any reason for Snape to be lying about that in the
> midst of fleeing from Hogwarts, or for James to have concealed
> it from his friends. It's the sort of thing he'd have bragged about. 
> 

Neri:
One problem with this argument: Snape never actually blames James of
*stealing* his spell. He only blames him of "turning my inventions on
me", which James could have easily done without any knowledge that the
spell was originally Snape's invention. I can't remember a single clue
in canon that James indeed stole the spell directly from Snape. 


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