[HPforGrownups] Re: Why down on all the characters?

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 179330

julie wrote:
> This wasn't my favorite development, but it would have
> been worse if Snape had harbored some faraway love for
> her, rather than this love having grown from them being
> actual childhood friends. The latter fact saved Snape's
> love from being truly pathetic, IMO. 

	I don't think that Snape was IN love with Lily; to me that was key. 
Snape's love was deeper than a romantic love; there may or may not have 
been a sexual component, but if there was, it was irrelevant. Morty, 
unable to understand love, assumed that there was ONLY a sexual 
component, which is why he didn't question Snape's continued loyalty, at 
least not too much (I'm pretty sure that Morty could even envision an 
occlumens good enough to fool him).

	Bart