Lily WAS: First lesson

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> Montavilla47:
> I'm not talking about any accident.  (Or did you mean *incident*?)

Alla:

LOL, sorry, yes of course, I meant incident.

Montavilla47:
> I'm talking about the memory where Lily scolds Snape for being
> friends with people who did... something unspecified to her 
> friend Mary.
> 
> I think you're right that she's concerned about her friend--but I 
> think that she's also concerned that Snape's association with 
> Slytherin bad boys is costing her points with her friends.  The reason
> I think this is because she says that she's been making excuses to
> those friends for him for years.  She sounds fed up about that.
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Alla:

Ah, I see where we differ and yes, we are talking about the same 
situation. I do not associate friends warning you about the guy 
necessarily with them saying that if you do not stop associating with 
him, you will not be our friend anymore, or less cool friend or 
something.

For example, if my friends are telling me that the guy I am seeing is 
bad for me, that does not translate into them telling me that if I do 
not stop seeing him pronto, they will not be my friends anymore. They 
are just concerned about me.

Yes, Lily was a popular girl, but I just do not see that she cared much 
about her popularity. Of course it could be that she did, I just do not 
see it.

Like with Ginny, we also see that she is popular, but do we see that 
she cares about popularity per se?

She wants her brother to leave her alone when she is dating (as any 
younger sister IMO would feel), she likes Quidditch, but I do not 
remember her caring about being popular.

JMO,

Alla