What triggered ancient magic? WAS: Re: James and Intent

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No: HPFGUIDX 187117

Carol adds:
To get back to fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boys knowing what a girl wants and
trying to respect her feelings, Harry has no clue why Cho is crying all the time
and has to deal with the "chest monster" when he see Dean kissing Ginny.
< BIG SNIP>
I don't see how we can expect more of Severus Snape at the same age. <BIG SNIP>


Alla:

I do. I am not talking about Severus Snape God forbid trying to respect and understand what teenage Lily wants. I mean, I still maintain that such things happen even among teenagers, but I certainly am not talking about that. Pippin brought up the examples of teenagers not getting what the other wants on the regular basis in life  and while I think that there are plenty of examples to the opposite in the book I am certainly not arguing that teenagers can be pretty clueless. I do not find them relevant though to my original point.

I am talking about twenty something (twenty one?) year old Severus Snape, trying to understand that maybe, just maybe the girl who used to be his best friend, is happy in **her marriage**  and loves her husband and baby.

If you think that this is too much to ask of twenty one year old to make an assumption that the woman is **happy** in her marriage and would not want to be alive at the expense of her husband and baby, well all I can say is that I strongly disagree.

He knows that Lily is married and had a baby for quite some time now, and I think he should have made an assumption (absent any knowledge he has to the contrary) that she is happy rather than not.



>Carol, 
>who thinks that most teenagers are too busy trying to figure out
>themselves to truly understand anyone else's thoughts and feelings

JMO, 

Alla, who thinks that at the point of his life when Severus Snape was asking about Lily's life only he was not a teenager anymore.