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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Crescent. Oh no you got me going on Severus and
Lily. I try to be careful as I feel it's a soap box I can get on, but you asked.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Allow me to start with 2 JKR facts to consider,
well 3 before I get into the deep stuff. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>1. She has admitted her couples are all wrong and
others often really hate them and the way she just appears to randomly stick
them together without like building it up at all or showing compatibility. It's
always a 'what?" sort of thing even if I don't particularly care about the
characters involved and I'm not by far the only one on that particular train.
LOL. I love her world and what she builtbut that particular bit of her
work always felt like just a lack in writing on her part and maybe she should've
just left it out. LOL.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>2.Romance and;needless death, neither built up
to well or necessaryto plot, seem to be the way she solves
problemsor plot connections,again a thing to which she has admitted.
I.E she kills Albus so he can't be there to help Harry. I mean there are so many
other ways one could've arranged that and any of them more in his character than
being careless enough to mess with that Horcrux, and many of them could've lead
to more interesting plots.Albus could've been kidnapped by DES
andtortured, or he could'vebeenrequired abroad to help
withinternational;or interspecies affairs, he often has the special
touch and a look into that could've been really cool for plot, I mean it's like
shejust gets lazy and pushes the 'love' or'kill' button to explain
everything and just it lacks depth and a real feel for those particular
characters.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>3. Severus's actions toward Lily in book 5 don't
appear to be those directed toward a friendwith whom you areangry,
nor do they appear to be directed to one he particularly knows well either. My
husband interpreted his reaction/insults to Lily as ones he directed to a girl
he hardly knows and who has just offended him by pretending to want to stick up
for him just toannoy James Potter, someone he really hates. So he insults
her. I mean if I hardly know you, you nevercare eitherway when
people are tormenting me in the past and now you wanna say something to
ruffleyour boy toy would be cause he's not taking your side? Bugger off
for sure. LOL. But the words seemed to be that no more or no less. Were it a
close friend he could've should've said something more along the lines
of,"You're finally saying something to that git now? Thanks for all the help in
the past,Ills. Really." But oh yea as they weren't friends in the past why
would she have helped him? Exactly. But JKR decides in book 6 that this should
change for her convenience because no lets not take 5 minutes to think of other
more fitting reasons Severus could be a De poser. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So here I go.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Severus and Lily have little in common and she's
not nearly snarky or dry or hard enough to havegarnered the friendship
interest or more of Severus. I mean considering Severus's character. And having
Muggle connectionsisn't nearly enough to strike up a friendship
whenyou have so little in common. Yes we didn't see much of Lily so
howdo I know what they have in common? Well what little we did see
supports the above perceptions and the fact she couldpossibly end up
withJames Potter is a clear indication of how different they are.
Sostarting at the start I see no clear reason for the friendship to
begin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But even if it did, considering Severus's
character, laid out in all 5 books previously, he's not at all the sort to carry
atorch forsomeone after they stabbed him in theback.
Forher to stab him in the first place they couldn't have been that close,
for her to even be able toappreciate someone like James while
beingfriends with Severus just doesn't fit so we go back to not likely in
the first place, sorry. LOL. But yea, your bff orespecially someone you
may have loved gets with one of your long time tormentors, someone tormenting
you admittedly viaSirius for no reason other than you exist, your friend
gets with them, you realizethey weren't your friend anyway. Weren't who
you thought they were. So no you don't, especially if you're someone like
Severus, youmost certainly do not risk all that you're risking by working
double agent style with someone asdangerous asVoldemort forany
reason, not for them, not for their kid. Just not happening. As my husband said,
some other man maybe, a softer one,a stupider one perhaps, but not
Severus, just like many of her relationship set ups, not really thought out or
in his character.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What it isis a lot of people don't like
Severus for the drysarcasticmisanthropic it that he is and want to
see something else. Some soft dumb guy who is lovesick and redeemable. He's not
asking to be redeemed or to be liked for something he's not. JKR wanted a
certain archetype and for some reason decided to stick Severus into
that.My opinion due to getting lazy after success with earlier books and
not liking him so not caring if what she says about him fits or not. As
anauthor myself I once wrote an entire book about a character I didn't
like. He was the main lead and I like him now but it wasn't until after the book
was written. However I still kept the integrity of him being who he isand
that being moreimportant than my convenience. And I wasa mix of
pleased and surprised when a lot of people really loved him. I love him now too
but it was a bit in coming. I was pleased that I wrote him fairly and that my
dislike for him did not taint anything, so that was awesome. Said book I had to
pull from amazon when our publisher crashed and stopped paying so gotta find
another agent but yeah. Point being she's admitted to not liking Severus and
she's admitted to couple errors and dumb reasons she's done things. Not because
she really felt the character would do it but because it met a goal she had
in mind. I tend to listen to my characters like they're telling me a story and
sometimes they even do things I don't particularly like but it's them and I stay
out of it, thus mysig line. LOL. But I am not JKR and that's fine. Okay
sure I"d love to switch bank accounts with her but yeah. LOL. Still even if she
drives the characters rather than listening to them, it'd only take 5 min
thought to make it actually fit their personality more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Now to demonstrate what i mean by someone Severus
would be compatible with...in our game that again was in full swing before book
6, my husband wrote someone who had an interest in Severus. She graduated some
years ahead of Potter, and Severus and she didn't get together until she was
well out of school cause Severus wouldn't ever mess with a student. But her name
is Mag, she has a deep love of books, like Severus preferring them to the
company of people. At lunch in school she'd always eat with a book in her hand
and if she did talk to anyone, it was to the house ghost, the Bloody Baron. She
works with gemstones to make wands that amplify power, she loves magical
creatures over people and later worked with a white ridge back dragon, who
consequently hates Severus. LOL. But she likes dragons far more than people.
She's more quiet than Severus so not as openly biting, more sarcastic when she
is, though, she is into Muggle psychology, so while a pure blood is open enough
to see the usefulness in some Muggle practices in how it can help her interact
with others, very loyal to Severus to a point that can annoy others, her other
good friend is Griphook from the bank as she met him while dealing in stones for
her enhancement work. So not your typical person at all, studious and like
Severus an only child. Of course she had to express an interest in him first.
LOL. But it eventually got sorted. Point is at least were you to see the 2
written together you'd be able to see how that could happen. Who can stand
Severus? A white light soft heart? No way! LOL. Someone who can't stand most
other people. It's real.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Okay I get that was way more than you asked for.
LOL.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm friends with the monster that's under my
bed.<BR>I get along with the voices inside of my
head.</FONT></DIV><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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