[the_old_crowd] Re: Snape a hero?

[ewe2]

On 7/27/07, Amanda <exslytherin at ...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith"
> <arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
> It's true though, we do know nothing about Lily and perhaps she was a
> bad girl. It's amazing how social conditioning works though, after
> all if Lily was rewarded with such a good man as James Potter and
> blessed with being loved by so many we automatically assume she must
> have been a paragon of virtue.

Point of order: the way the tale runs you're given to think its James
who got the reward, not Lily, and he's no paragon of virtue either.
Frankly they seem both devious and cruel to a point (think of the
Cloak!Harry vs Malfoy scene for comparison) like Snape, it just
happens there's a prejudicial divide over Muggles. The problem is of
course Harry's hagiography which as Barry notes, continues to strike a
dischord to the very end.

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