Lily WAS: First lesson

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 185709

Alla:
> She does speak with contempt, but to me it feels that it should be
> addressed with contempt and maybe people will not be as scared to
> fight them. IMO of course.

Montavilla47:
Right. But it they are actually scary and she thinks Snape is going
to join them, then they *are* scary. I'm sure this is supposed to
show how incredibly brave Lily is. But it makes the Death Eaters
seem like--well, roughly on a par with the Marauders in terms of
a threat.

But maybe I'm over thinking it. After all, it's not a lot different
than Fred and George's U-No-Poo. And I'm sure that at Hogwarts,
the students were sheltered from the worst of the war.


Alla:

I took it exactly as you said - to show how brave Lily is, I read it 
that contempt was here to deliberately dwonplay their danger, if that 
makes sense.

But now I just realized something, and thank you for that, I 
speculated for quite some time that Snape may have joined DE while at 
school. But believe it or not, I never took this quote as additional 
hint for that speculation. I think I am now. "You and your previous 
DE" to me can nicely support that Snape indeed became a part of them 
literally.


> Alla:
>
> I have to reread the moment when she defends herself, but I mean, 
she
> **went** with socially undesirable Neville, doesn't it mean that she
> could assume that she could be ridiculed and still went?

Montavilla47:
Depends. She's ridiculed by Ron, her brother and older student. But
she might look a lot better to the girls in her own year, who don't 
get
to go to the dance at all.

Alla:

An. I see.