Severus as friend

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 183327

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"

  To me it seems he would have rebuffed Petunia and continued
> trying to drive her away from Lily even if Petunia had tried to be
> friendly with him. Once he was friends with Lily, would he have
> deigned to accept overtures of friendship from another wizarding 
child who was less beautiful and intelligent and magically powerful 
than Lily?

Potioncat:
You may be right about Petunia, but I could hardly blame him for not 
liking her. Do you think that if Lily had been more like Hermione, he 
would had dropped their friendship at Hogwarts? Because I don't think 
it's her appearance that captured his devotion.


> Catlady: 
> Once at Hogwarts, it seems to me that he had all the friends he
> needed: a couple of the more intelligent (altho' not more moral)
> Slytherin House mates and super-duper Lily. 

Potioncat:
Your questions made me re-think my answer. I thought about all of us 
who said, 'yes, we'd want to be Severus Snape's friend at Hogwarts.' 
Then I pictured little Sev, overwhelmed by overtures of friendship 
from all of us at once. He would think he'd died and gone to the 
great train station in the sky. That Evans girl would be quickly 
forgotten!

Erm, seriously:

Canon shows almost everyone travels in House packs. Ginny seemed to 
have friends from other houses; Hermione seemed to know students from 
other houses better than the boys did. Bur for the most part, 
friendships formed in the houses and it would be difficult to 
establish a friendship from a different house. Understanding that, I 
think if a Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff extended a friendly gesture, 
Severus wouldn't dismiss it.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd never be sorted into 
Slytherin. I don't have the slightest bit of ambition, and I don't 
think my blood is any better than anyone elses. (Although I am very 
proud of my Scot-Irish blood!)

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