[ SECRET POST #2394 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2394 ⌋

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[seventh_seal]

Well, he did a lot of irrational things.

Lily was just this one happy thing in his life who loved him for what he was (before he started to alienate her by associating with Death Eater wannabes) and he just wasn't using logic when it came to her. He probably thought she would be accepted as the exception to the rule - a person of Muggle blood who is so incredibly talented that she would be valued as an asset to Slytherin anyway (he wished for her to be sorted there).

So there must've been this weird double-think when it came to her in his mind. On the one hand, she was this beautiful, powerful, intelligent girl who wanted to be friends with him - on the other, he moved in a circle of people who hated "mudbloods" and no doubt must've expressed the same opinion to be later accepted as a Death Eater. He probably thought that Lily would be save with him. And later, when she finally dumped him as a friend, it never really occurred to him he was actively working to exterminate her, he just didn't think of her as on par with others, she was always on a pedestal to him.

He is basically the ultimate nice!guy when it comes to Lily and the "mudblood" was his version of "I hate you, you slut!" cry of rejection. What was once an innocent feeling of a neglected boy for the only good thing in his life, turned into possessiveness - he was holding onto the idea of what Lily should be to him and totally disregarded her own desires and even well-being.

Snape's love for Lily was a shock to many people, but now it's part of the HP canon and the main driving force behind Snape's work for Dumbledore that turned out to be crucial for Harry's success. And it was when he finally realized that he put her in danger (which came about 10 years too late) that made him switch sides. Of course, you can create an alternate universe where Snape never loved her and fooled both Dumbledore and Harry with the silver doe, probably in some elaborate plan that ends up with him swooping down on unsuspecting Albus Severus and kidnapping him for torture, but it just doesn't correspond with what's in the books, imho.