Biggest DH dissapointment - Lily and Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180443


> zanooda2:
> 
> > 2. Another thing: I don't think that many people at school knew 
> > that Snape was in love with Lily. It's not like he sang serenades 
> > under her window :-). I believe he was very discrete about his true 
> > feelings. 
> 
> Leslie41: 
> 
> No, truthfully he wasn't discrete at all.  After he called her a 
> mudblood he literally planted himself at the entrance to Gryffindor 
> tower until Lily came out.  
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>
> How would you interpret those actions? 

Pippin:
As a sixteen year old being over the top and emotional about losing
his best friend.  People must have  wondered, but both of them would 
have denied a romance  as thoroughly as Harry always denied having 
any romantic feelings for Hermione. In Snape's case he would have been 
lying, but he was good at that. Certainly he gave no sign of his feelings
for her in the Pensieve scene. 

 Lily had been having to defend her friendship with
Snape for a while. No one could understand what she saw in him,
and I'm sure that's the way Sirius and Lupin felt till the day they
died. Why would they bring it up with Harry? To tell him what poor
taste his mother had in friends?

Harry shies away from discussing his parents with others. He
never wants to know what the history books say about him,
not even filtered through Hermione. The Dursleys did a very good 
job on him. But in any case, a lot of the people who knew Lily 
well died in the war, as Mad-eye's photograph shows. Mary might 
have been one of them. 

Rowling hinted as early as 1999 that there was something about
Snape being in love that we would find out in Book Seven. I
think that plotline was settled very early in the series. Of course
Harry has to be amazingly ignorant and uncurious about his
past for any of the plot to work at all.  

Pippin