Lily and Snape

[antonia31h]

No: HPFGUIDX 188668

> > Bart:
> >     And how, pray tell, could his death have accomplished more to save
> > Lily than what he did?
> >
>
> Pippin:
> If failing to save Lily proves that Snape didn't love her, then  James couldn't have loved her either. But I don't think that's the case.
>
> Just being willing to die wasn't enough. It was having a choice that allowed Lily to save Harry. Ironically, if  Snape had died in the course of spying for Dumbledore "at great personal risk", then not only would Lily not have been saved, Harry wouldn't have been saved either. With Snape dead, Voldemort would no longer have had a reason to offer LIly any chance to live.
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antonia31h:
I think a gesture from Snape, while Lily was alive could have mattered to her and make her realise that he was an honorable and trustworthy friend after all. Yes, after her death he tried his best to protect her son (in his own manner) and to repay the debt that he felt he had towards her. But why not try to talk to her, to prove to her all this while she was still alive? If the "mudblood" gesture made her turn away, couldn't have been any other act of his that might have made her forgive him? If I would have been in Snape's situation and considering that the person I loved was in danger and could be gone forever at any moment, I would have wanted not to let her go without explaining myself. I would have wanted to see a scene from his memories where he at least tries as an adult to talk to Lily and to make her forgive him.

antonia31h.