[dragonblustar]

I don’t see that. I see Snape as a person craving admiration and never getting it. There were several hints of this through out the series. I also see that as being why he hates Harry so much. Harry isn’t the brightest of students but when he gets Snape’s potion book he gets all the credit for the work Snape did.

Snape was supposed to be very bright. If I remember well, he knew things seventh year students didn’t know. The fact that Lily was very good in potions and getting all the credit and attention might have made him jealous. Then to have her son who ins’t so bright being compared to his mother and her talents might have set off another fuse.

Another thing is that Lily is a mud blood. Snape is very staunch supporter of everything slytherin. He calls himself a half blood because bloodlines are important. If Snape had a crush on Lily, why would he call her a filthy mud blood?

Plus, I still haven’t heard anyone address his girlfriend? It was in the fourth book when Harry was looking into the pensive and he heard this girl complaining to Dumbledore that Snape cursed her because she caught him kissing a girl. Now, I know the American books don’t have this part but I promise you, that’s what I had in my British book. ( I’ll see if anyone on the net has that line. )

Anyways, I think Snape is a troubled person who turned towards the dark side because he is more respected than he is with Dumbledore’s group. But sadly I hate to see this of him. I like the unlikey heros myself but I really don't think this will happen to him.

[dragonblustar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severus_Snape

interesting what they had on Snape. His patronus could be a spider.

[schwing_wifey]

Hey Everybody,

I have a radical new idea...what if Lily was the Potions wiz and helping Severus? I noticed that Slughorn has been raving about Lily’s talents but hasn’t said anything about Snape’s. (Re-reading HBP at the moment....)

Hmmmmm?

[TightyRighty]

I just reread the section in OoTP where Harry visits Snapes memory. Alot of people suggest that he hates Harry because his eyes remind him of Lily. And that during the scene where James hexes Snape - he gets embarrassed because Lily sticks up for him and out of anger calls her a Mudblood. After reading that scene again, I think the only reason Snape dislikes Harry so much is that he is a spitting image of his father and a constant reminder of the embarrassment James and Sirius caused him during school.

Harry sees his father taking his O.W.L.S and Rowling makes it clear again how closely Harry resembles his father. And the next scene of James and Sirius hexing Snape is downright mean - Snape is minding his own business when they begin hexing him and Harry is pulled out of the pensieve before he finds out if James takes Snapes underwear off.