No, we really don't disagree that much. My above post is a direct reply to bohemianspirit to express my happiness that somebody else seems to have taken the same small emergency exit out of the DH misery I found for myself. It hasn't been meant to tackle your statements about weakness or strength of unrequited love. I do agree Severus loved Lily all his life, but what started as an obsessive and posessive teenage love has changed to something quieter, more like loyalty and faithful friendship over the years. I don't see this love as a weakness. There's a small psycho-linguistic hint that he thoroughly accepts her marriage to James Potter. At the meeting with Dumbledore he calls her Lily Potter. He is in an emotional state there that clearly suggests he hasn't planned his words. He speaks his mind. Severus thinks of her as Potter not Evans. A man who wants her to be spared for himself would think of her by her maiden name.
But I will never, ever agree that loving someone makes you weak. That's a really common argument among the Snape-haters, and I am sick of reading it!
I actually dobn't mind this argument coming from Snape-haters. I'm sick of reading it from former Snapefans who can't forgive that he is not their prince of darkness, not the machiavellian superhero, but a human being with emotions, vulnerability and a bad-girl syndrome ;) .
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Date: 2009-08-07 08:21 pm (UTC)I do agree Severus loved Lily all his life, but what started as an obsessive and posessive teenage love has changed to something quieter, more like loyalty and faithful friendship over the years. I don't see this love as a weakness. There's a small psycho-linguistic hint that he thoroughly accepts her marriage to James Potter. At the meeting with Dumbledore he calls her Lily Potter. He is in an emotional state there that clearly suggests he hasn't planned his words. He speaks his mind. Severus thinks of her as Potter not Evans. A man who wants her to be spared for himself would think of her by her maiden name.
But I will never, ever agree that loving someone makes you weak. That's a really common argument among the Snape-haters, and I am sick of reading it!
I actually dobn't mind this argument coming from Snape-haters. I'm sick of reading it from former Snapefans who can't forgive that he is not their prince of darkness, not the machiavellian superhero, but a human being with emotions, vulnerability and a bad-girl syndrome ;) .