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Because I've come to see James and Lily as very similar people: neither very deep, sensitive, or subtle, both popular, neither unattractive or from a bad home - the ultimate Mary Sue and Gary Stu. I see them fit together very well, and I think Severus was much, much better without either of them.
In that vein, you might be interested in reading a short "creative meta" fic I recently posted, Childhood's End, exploring my view of how, if Severus had turned away from the Death Eaters and ended up marrying Lily, they still would have eventually drifted apart, once the scales fell away from both of their eyes, due to their fundamental incompatibility. The sad thing is that no one was on hand in the canon story line to help him get past idealizing Lily's memory and see, as you put it, that he could, indeed, do better than Lily (at least the Lily we are SHOWN in canon).
I just happily choose someone else for Severus - a sweet woman who really, really cares about him and understands him.
Heh. I hear you. I almost always gravitate towards pairing Severus with an OC, usually female, and almost always outside of the wizarding world!
In that vein, you might be interested in reading a short "creative meta" fic I recently posted, Childhood's End, exploring my view of how, if Severus had turned away from the Death Eaters and ended up marrying Lily, they still would have eventually drifted apart, once the scales fell away from both of their eyes, due to their fundamental incompatibility. The sad thing is that no one was on hand in the canon story line to help him get past idealizing Lily's memory and see, as you put it, that he could, indeed, do better than Lily (at least the Lily we are SHOWN in canon).
I just happily choose someone else for Severus - a sweet woman who really, really cares about him and understands him.
Heh. I hear you. I almost always gravitate towards pairing Severus with an OC, usually female, and almost always outside of the wizarding world!