Snape and Lilly Sitting in the Tree

[Mike Gray]

Just a thought - and probably a thought you guys have
already chewed it up and spit out several hundred
posts ago. Still, three observations:

1) Slughorn can't stop rattling along about how much
Harry's potions work reminds him of his mother's.

2) Slughorn, however dim in some ways, did teach Lilly
and knew what he was talking about. It's not just that
he's good; there's a familiy resemblence.

3) The real inspiration behind Harry's work were the
glosses in the textbook of one Severus Snape ...

?) ... who may or may not have been Lilly's BF ...

4) ... but certainly didn't end up gettingthe girl and
gradually turn nasty.

Something tells me that some more clarification about
Snape and Lilly's relationship will put this into
context. Was Lilly, like her son, getting a free ride
from Snape - or was Snape the one getting the goods
from from his GF? 

And, of course, when Lilly started sniffing out one
James Potter - was that when Snape started adding in
curses? 

Every once in a while, I get the impression that I
might not mind Jo's finishing these books after all.

Baaaaa,

Mike (who is desperately trying to prepare for an MA
final. And is hence noodling around ToC, tinkering
with his LJ and generally wasting precious time ... )

P.S. Anybody know when Steve gets home from his jaunt
through Scottland?