The Overarching message (of the HP books)

[jules]

No: HPFGUIDX 191642

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> Potioncat:
> Nothing in canon implies that Snape wanted Lily as a toy--except maybe LV's statement--and we all know how unreliable LV is.
> 

Julie: 
The biggest argument against Snape wanting Lily as a toy/
slave/sexual plaything is the very fact that it never 
happened. Snape was certainly smart enough and inventive
enough to put Lily under his power. Yet we have no canon
that he ever challenged James (or more in Slytherin style
simple took him out when he wasn't looking), nor did he
use a love potion, Imperius, or any other method to get
Lily under his control. Instead, after she rejected him 
outside her dorm, he simply let her go on with the life 
she had chosen, and as far as we know he never darkened
her door again. 

Snape wasn't your typical stalker, which makes him 
something of an enigma. He may have loved Lily in an
obsessive manner, but his love was also unselfish in
many ways. He hurt himself far more than he hurt her
(with his love, not his actions--and even that was 
unintentional, and it was his love which mitigated his
action, up until Peter Pettigrew stepped in).

Julie