Lily and Snape

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 188676

antonia31h wrote:
> > The way I see it is that if Snape had truly loved Lily and did not have some sort of obsession over her (that's my theory regarding his feelings) he would have given even his life in order to save hers. 
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> Bart:
>     And how, pray tell, could his death have accomplished more to save Lily than what he did?
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Carol responds:

Exactly. Snape tells Dumbledore that he wants to die, and DD asks what that would accomplish. Then he convinces Snape to help him protect Lily's son so that her death won't be in vain. Of course, he risked his life by going to DD in the first place (and possibly in going to LV to ask *him* to spare Lily--DEs don't normally ask LV for favors or rewards). And, in the end, he dies after giving Harry crucial information. 

In any case, I agree with Bart that he did everything he could to save Lily and to make up for it afterward. He didn't know when he reported the prophecy to LV that he was endangering her, and it certainly would have done no good to go directly to her when he found out. Much better to go first to LV and then to Dumbledore. It's not Snape's fault that DD's protections failed.

Carol, quite sure that Snape's love was real though his view of Lily idealized, as indicated by his Patronus