Lily (was Complimenting a character WAS: Re: HBP CHAPTERS 7-9 POST DH LOOK

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 184423

> Montevilla:
> 
> I'm sure that's all just because JKR is trying to hide the secret from
> us, but it makes Lily look like a hypocrite and a terrible friend. Imagine
> if it were Hermione and Harry, and Hermione pretended not to be
> friends with Harry and instead flirted with Malfoy while Harry was
> being hung upside-down and pantsed.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> Does it? Lily "puts up with" listening to Snape insult every other
> muggle-born witch/wizard than her. 


Montavilla47:
Really?  Show me one other muggle-born witch or wizard that Snape 
insults by calling them a "mudblood," because I don't remember a 
single one.

I agree with Magpie.  The two characters we see in the Prince's Tale—
that Lily would have certainly told Snape off had he used the word
in her presence as soon as he did it.  The Snape we saw would have
taken her words to heart.

I don't see in any chapter of any book the Snape JKR describes in
interviews as thinking that Lily would have been impressed by 
his becoming a big, bad, DE.  He must be there, but I just don't 
see him.



Lynda:
> She turns her back on the trio for years,
> simply due to her friendship with Snape. 

Montavilla47:
Or else she simply disliked them until her hormones kicked in
and she became sexually attracted to James.  After all, don't we
see the same thing with Lavender and Ron?  Although they are in
the same year and house, they barely talk to each other until 
sixth year, when suddenly they're making out in the common 
room.  

Lynda:
> She only turns from him when he publically
> insults her.

Montavilla47:
True.  But if you read that scene in SWM, she acts during her 
her feisty scolding as if Snape were some random student 
that James is picking on—rather than her best friend.  It's 
quite possible to read it—as most readers did—thinking that
she's no more acquainted with Snape than Harry is with, say
Terry Boot or Daphne Greengrass.  

Which is wonderfully misleading for the reader.  But someone
who was watching her best friend being treated like that would
act very differently.  Unless she was deliberately trying to 
distance herself from him.  Which I could see, since in their 
previous interaction, she was already pushing him away.

Okay, fine.  But if you're going to break up with someone,
break up with them.  Don't string them along and then
use their public humiliation as an opportunity to show the
alpha male how feisty you are.