[ SECRET POST #2031 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2031 ⌋

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Comments

[herongale]

Me too! I think that Snape and Lily had a sort of idyllic childhood romance. ;;___;; If incredibly short-lived.

I'm not sure I buy into the idea of that carrying through into adulthood, though, since we saw their break-up as friends and I always assumed that happened well before she became sexually active. I can buy her as being a free-spirit, but I think it would have been during a time in her life when Snape had already burned all of his chances with her. Anything that she would have done with him after that point would have had to be out of cruelty on her part, and I don't think she ever would have been cruel to him like that, no matter how much they'd grown apart. If she has any sensitivity at all (and I believe she had a lot!) she would have kept such liaisons to partners where there wouldn't be any unfortunate overwrought emotional complications and hurt feelings involved.

But I feel like there is a sort of subthread that Lily's heart was always his to lose... not that he "deserved" her or she "owed" it to him, but that she genuinely had a connection to him that was more than mere friendship, and that if he had even been a little less craptacular in every single way, she might have held onto those feelings until she was old enough to make a real lasting romance out of it. I always figured that to be a part of his retrospective angst... to realize that she WAS his, in all the ways that matter, and that it was entirely his own fault that he squandered her affections.

[(Anonymous)]

Just curious, but what about canon lead to your interpretation? I didn't even get the impression Lily cared about him as a best friend. She didn't even seem that affected when he called her a "filthy little mudblood". By that point, I think she was just exhausted with him. On the other hand, she got all defensive when Snape started insulting James, and flushed when he insinuated that she thought the Marauders were great. I think even back then she had a crush on James, she just didn't care for his immaturity and arrogance. JKR implied as much herself.