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Selene_16

Does the entire prince's tale chapter debunk any theories about snape being in love with lily?

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Hear me out, if your in love with someone wouldn't your last moments and memories of them be positive? How their hair shines in the sunlight, their laugh, the way their eyes sparkle when taling about things the like, even just something as mundane as them answering a question.

Snape does love lily in his own way or maybe he loves the idea of lily but either way the way that the prince's tale chapter is told, it doesn't really paint a picture of someone in love, not for me anyway. This chaoter is suppsed to be told from the memories of someone supposedly in love with her and yet all we see is 2 children getting to know eaxh other, snape basically giving lily a rundown of the most basic stuff she should know about the world they're about to enter, petunia spying on her baby sister and the strange little boy from the poor end of town and getting hurt, lily blaming snape for something they both willingly did, the origins of the whole snape vs marauders feud, arguments between lily and snape because apparently its so much easier to tell your friend you don't understand why the dirtpoor halfblood outcast would rather not make enemies of his very powerful pireblood classmates he shares a dorm and sleepjng qiarters with ans demand he stop than to actualy sit with him and ask what thepriblem was and how she could help, more arguments between lily and snape, even more arguments where lily calls out snape for being ungrateful to potter and dismissing the bullying as "at least its not dark magic" , the more complete picture of the O.W.L incident, the final frayed thread of the admittedly unbalanced from the beginning friendship between snape and lily finally snapping because snape lashes out with a slur that lily really should have kicked his ass for, was the last straw. Honestly rhe prince's tale feels more like a cautionary tale of what happens when the frendship was unbalanced from the very beginnin and niether party is very good at communicating properly. That's the only actually detailed thing we have between snape and lily and it doesnt really show romantic anything, does it?

Posted May 24, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

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