Courtly love in Potterverse WAS: What triggered ancient magic?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 187136

 
> Alla:

> Maybe he expected to fool Dumbledore and run away after he delivered his warning, after all he did leave after he eavesdropped the Prophecy, maybe he thought that he will get Lily later after he is out of prison, 

Pippin:
All I can say is, if Snape is so obsessed, and  thinks he is as clever as that, why would he need Voldemort to get rid of James and Harry for him? Why get rid of them at all? Why not steal Lily or lure her away as soon as Voldemort said he could have her? 

But there is not the slightest canon that Snape even thought of doing such things.

>From Voldemort's pov, and from Harry's, Snape stopped being a loyal DE as soon as he thought anything was more important than fulfilling his master's wishes. But evidently it took Snape himself some time to realize that he couldn't oppose Voldemort on one issue and still support him in others. 

Snape wouldn't be shocked or revolted that Voldemort intended to kill a baby. What do you think would have happened to Neville, when dear Uncle Algie dropped him out the window, if he hadn't bounced? Augusta doesn't seem to have thought any less of old Algie for it. That's the Longbottoms, mind you, a family that wouldn't have anything to do with the Dark Arts.

 I'm afraid the purebloods are just not very sentimental about babies -- after all, if they didn't think they could disown their  grandchildren, there wouldn't *be* any pureblood families. 

Pippin