why I ship Severus and Lily

[sunlit_music]

Here is the part where I go gooeey about my love of all things Severus/Lily. If you don't lik this pairing, by all means please skip this.

Why I love Snevans:

- They're so cute as children! XD

- Because they're both flawed people. Perfect people are great to meet, but boring to read about.

- They're both strong people. Pairings where one person is weak don't interest me.

- I have a soft spot for pairings where one person sees the beauty within the other person. I reckon Lily saw the beauty within Severus as a friend - so his looks don't matter to her. I know JKR sees Snape/Lily as always unrequited. My view? If she wants it to be seen as always unrequited, she should write it in.

- Severus changed his racist beliefs and allegiances for Lily. He truly became less selfish and more concerned for others due to his love.

- True love is about sacrifice. Tragedies and struggles make love stories seem more interesting to me. Severus sacrificed his safety and risked being tortured and killed when he changed his allegiances for Lily. Lily dies as a consequence for his actions. He shows his love through being a spy for Dumbledore (who manipulated and used him) and protecting Harry.

Snevans shippers, let me know why you ship them! :D

Comments

[sunlit-music.livejournal.com]

Hello Paul,

Sorry for the late reply. I was going to post links to explain my views, then forgot. I should have replied to your post much quicker.

I don't think being able to resist harder methods necessarily means you'd be able to withstand softer methods of manipulations. Plus Snape might have had a close relationship with Dumbledore (making it harder to resist him than someone who he didn't care for like Voldemort).

Here's montavilla's views on why she thinks Dumbledore is manipulative (I don't agree with everything she says, but I do think Dumbledore manipulated Snape).
http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/99429.html#cutid1

I used this definition of manipulate (3rd definition):http://www.thefreedictionary.com/manipulations

I think Dumbledore's use of Snape was shrewd. Not sure if it was devious (although it might have been).

[paulshandy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was an interesting link. When I read discussions like that I can see why I'm not a professional critic. I just didn't put all that together.

[sunlit-music.livejournal.com]

I don't mean to offend you, but are you being sarcastic? Because I didn't mean to offend you.

Not sure if the people in the dealthtocapslock community are professional critics. Although a lot of them seem to be very intelligent (and have loads of time on their hands! I don't have the time to analyse the Harry Potter series as much as they do!).

[paulshandy.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not being sarcastic. I just don't remember that many details, and the series was too long for me to put it all together. If I wanted to be a professional critic, I'd want to be able to write about a theory in that level of detail. And no, I don't have that much time either.