A truly decent person would have rescued him from James (performed Finite Incantatem, docked House points from Gryffindor, called a teacher in to stop the bullying).
James threats to hex her if she'd tried to use magic against him, and they were four against two. The scene fades exactly when she leaves, so there's no way to know if she haven't spoken with an authority of the school to go there and rescue Snape after she left (she was not a prefect). She totally could.
Lily didn't ask Snape whether he was feeling OK when she found out about James had rescued him in the Shack. This is plain unfeeling and bizarre. If I had found out that a friend of mine was in danger and had been rescued, I would have ran to them asking, “Are you feeling OK?”
When this episode was brought to the surface they were both already arguing, so maybe she was blinded by the anger she was feeling towards him, at the moment. It doesn't mean she didn't asked it sometime after or before when her emotions were more composed. And I believe that - for the fact that Snape couldn't tell anyone about Lupin's secret - she didn't have a real notion of the risk Snape passed through in the Shack.
Anyway, I really liked your essay. I wish every Snape fan were that sane =)
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Date: 2010-04-03 10:10 pm (UTC)James threats to hex her if she'd tried to use magic against him, and they were four against two. The scene fades exactly when she leaves, so there's no way to know if she haven't spoken with an authority of the school to go there and rescue Snape after she left (she was not a prefect). She totally could.
Lily didn't ask Snape whether he was feeling OK when she found out about James had rescued him in the Shack. This is plain unfeeling and bizarre. If I had found out that a friend of mine was in danger and had been rescued, I would have ran to them asking, “Are you feeling OK?”
When this episode was brought to the surface they were both already arguing, so maybe she was blinded by the anger she was feeling towards him, at the moment. It doesn't mean she didn't asked it sometime after or before when her emotions were more composed. And I believe that - for the fact that Snape couldn't tell anyone about Lupin's secret - she didn't have a real notion of the risk Snape passed through in the Shack.
Anyway, I really liked your essay. I wish every Snape fan were that sane =)