CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 184860

> > Leah: She's actually given up on the friendship in her own mind 
> > before the 
> > werewolf prank.  If you knew that your friend, let alone your best 
> > friend, had been saved from some serious danger, you might make 
> some 
> > attempt to talk to them about it. Lily clearly hasn't. Her comment 
> > in the 'apology' scene, 'my friends wonder...', not 'my other 
> > friends' is another indicator.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> We do not know what is on her mind. I completely disagree that she 
> gave up on friendship before that. She knows that Snape is her 
> friend, I think it would be just awkward prose to say my other 
> friends, IMO of course.

Montavilla47:
I agree that "my other friends" is an awkward construction," but she 
wasn't limited to that.  She could have said, "My girlfriends" since at 
this time she's presumably not friends with James "Toerag" Potter and
his gang.  Which pretty much leaves her just the girls in Gryffindor to
be her big friends.

Unless Snape is such a loser that even the people in Ravenclaw and
Hufflepuff wonder why she tolerates him.