[HPforGrownups] Biggest DH dissapointment

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 180373

leslie41 wrote:
> Did I miss something?  Did Dumbledore tell everyone never to say 
> anything about Snape and Lily?  And how could he have ever told 
> Sirius, who disappeared before he could have made any such promise?  
> 
> It's sort of freaking me out as I think back on the other books. 
> 
> Somebody help!  Maybe there's an easy answer I'm not seeing.  

	Here is what I gathered:

	1) The Gryffindors despised Snape, and the Slytherins despised Lily. 
Therefore, neither group really thought that Snape's and Lily's 
friendship could possibly be as deep as it was (I don't have it in front 
of me, but pay attention to the comments made by the Griffindors 
especially in the flashbacks; they seem to think that Lily was being 
charitable to an oddball, and that there was no real friendship. I 
suspect most people think of that with Harry and Luna, as well, not 
realizing that Luna was one of the few people on whom Harry could 
completely rely.
	
	2) They never had a romantic relationship, and they broke up when they 
were like 14 or 15.

	3) Because of #1, neither Snape nor Lily talked about it with their 
friends, who wouldn't have understood anyway.

	For these reasons, I suspect that, with the possible exception of 
Dumbledore, who swore to keep quiet, Voldemort, who didn't understand it 
anyway, and Petunia, who did not know that the information might be 
important, nobody really knew (or, if they could have known, believed) 
how close they really were.

	Bart