Biggest DH dissapointment

[marion11111]

No: HPFGUIDX 180397


>dreamyclaire:
> As someone who was not very popular at school I can tell you
> that the popular kids, ie the Maruaders, never believed that
> the unpopular kids, ie Snape, had a life outside school so paid
> absolutly no attention to them and what was happening in their
> life!
> 
> Snape waiting outside the common room for Lily could be easily
> explained away by Lily if she so chose. If they where both in
> the same potions class by the sounds of it no one else would
> have been in the same league as them, and let's face it you
> would hardly want to broadcast the fact that you were close
> friends with a Slytherin in the Gryffindor common room or vice
> versa. Imagine the reaction of Lucius Malfoy, McNair or Theodore
> Nott if Snape was to tell anyone in Slytherin he was in love
> with a Gryffindor! It would have made his life even more
> unbearable.
> 

marion11111:

Yes, but Lily was popular.  JKR described her as a very popular girl.  In a school with only 
40 or so kids per grade.  That's the size of one classroom in many city high schools now. 
A greasy little nerd hanging around a popular girl would draw attention to himself as 
Snape obviously did.  The levicorpus/pantsing episode seemed to me to be more about 
tearing down someone who Lily might still pay attention to than just bullying a loner.  
Really, this is why it worked better for me when I thought that Snape had a secret crush 
and Lily had no idea who he was and that James picked on him because he (James) was a 
bully.  Once the lingering-childhood-friendship theory came out, it became harder to 
imagine.  

But even before DH, I was baffled by the lack of information given to Harry about Lily. 
Whatever happened to Lily's girlfriends?  No godmother for Harry?  I guess it had to be that 
way to make the story work, but it seemed odd.