First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[jkoney65]

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> Montavilla47:
> No.  I'm inferring it from the way that we're told (it's almost the 
> first thing we know about Lily) that she was the star in her
> parent's eyes, and that she was very popular both in school and 
> throughout the Wizarding world.  Adding to that her upset at 
> Snape costing her cool points with her friends and it seems to 
> me that popularity was important to Lily.
> 
> JMO.
>
jkoney:
We find out that Lilly was a star in her parents eyes from Petunia. 
Someone we find out was very jealous of Lilly and her abilities. 
After she found out she couldn't attend the school, it seems she went 
to bitterness and anger about the situation.

Being popular could just mean that she was friendly, helpful, etc. 
Not that she was trying to get people to worship her.

As for "cool points" with her friends, it sounded as if she was 
making excuses for Snape because she was his friend and didn't want 
others to think badly of him. She knew him (or at least she thought 
she did) and thought he was a good person. That's why she was upset 
that he was hanging around with people who were junior death eaters 
in training. She didn't want him drawn into that.
jmo
jkoney