[HPforGrownups] Lily (was Complimenting a character )

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 184422

Carol:
I'm no fan of Lily, but I certainly understand why she wanted nothing
to do with MWPP for her first five years (and perhaps even her sixth)
at Hogwarts. The mystery is why she ever married James at all. Surely,
the absence of prejudice against Muggle-borns was not sufficient
reason to fall in love with him.

Carol, wondering what Lily thought when she found out (no doubt
post-Hogwarts) about her future husband's midnight adventures with a
werewolf

Lynda:
I'm neither a fan nor a hater of Lily As for friendships with former
schoolmates after graduation, however, what I have found personally is that
people change after school we ourselves as well as others. My closest female
friend and I knew each other all through school and until after she left
school and went to work (she did not graduate--health problems) we barely
spoke to one another. We did not become friends until six years ago or so.
My other close friend from school and I knew each other only from shared
classes. We never spoke a word to one another until we graduated and only
met once again recently when I had the chance to finally offer my
condolences to him on the loss of his partner.

James must have really turned on the charm, and I have a feeling that
although we are not privy to the insults and such offered by Snape on behalf
of all muggle borns must have gotten to Lily finally and the bit that we do
see through the pensieve be only the last straw. Does that make Lily
less than what she was before? Perhaps. It is certainly a very human trait
that she shows in walking away from what she percieves as a relationship
that is going nowhere.

Lynda


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