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That Sirius doesn't mention the friendship between Sev and Lily doesn't surprise me. Sirius is not the kind of person who would believe that 'a girl like Lily' (ie: pretty, 'perky' and Gryffindor) could ever truly have cared about 'a piece of slime like Snivellus' (ie: homely if not straight out ugly, dirt poor, bookish and above all, *Slytherin*). The idea that Snivellus could ever have been James' rival would seem ludicrous to him. Because he doesn't believe it, it wouldn't register on his tiny mind. Anything to the contrary he would explain away as 'that slimy git was trailing after Lily all the time, wanting to get into her panties', or something like that.
Not only is Harry and Hermione Rowlings' self-inserts, but Sirius also, because that spin on things is exactly what she is, if not outright, subconsciously trying to sell her readers, which dimishes an already sloppy, choppy and badly written tale even further.
But back to the theory that Dumbles confunded certain key persons to hide Sev's and Lily's early friendship (however one-sided - Lily certainly doesn't sound as if she cares over much about Severus, but she still, at the age of fifteen, keeps him dangling with promises that they are 'best friends', so the friendship can't have been a figment of Snape's imagination)
Sure, Olivander mentions Lily's wand, but confunding people of Sev and Lily's friendship doesn't mean erasing all memory of Lily, the Mother of The Boy Who Lived. It merely lets people remember her in a rather vague way and prohibits people from thinking to much about her exept in the most abstract of ways.
How well would Olivander have known her? He would've seen her when she was eleven and bought her wand from him, and that would be it. Maybe she bought her wand together with Severus, maybe not. Even so, it wouldn't be all that difficult for Dumbledore to confund Olivander a tiny teensy bit. Dumbledore gave Olivander a Fawkes feather for Harry's wand, after all, and we are never told when he did this. Would Dumbles not have asked Olivander, after Voldie Death I, what the core of Tom Riddle's wand was (so that Olivander learns then and there who Voldemort truly was, a piece of information that is NOT common knowledge) only to return a few days later with a second phoenix feather. A little prodding about 'poor Lily' would show Dumbles exactly how much or how little Olivander knew about Sev and Lily and the gift of another feather would be the perfect opportunity for a bit of foolish wandwaving...
Why am I trying to make sense of these stupid books?!!
Anyway, it remains idiotic that in such a small community that is the WW, where everyone is related in some way with everyone else, and everyone goes to the same school so whole generations know eachother 'back from school' even when they aren't related (I still say that Dumbledore's removal of Slughorn and shoehorning in of Severus was part and parcel of his plan to scapegoat the Slytherins. Slughorn and Slytherin was essential for muggleborns to slide into wizarding society, but with his removal and the scapegoating, that gate was closed to muggleborns, which didn't do them a favour at all, but I digress) In a society where everyone knows everyone else, it's extremely strange that nobody, *nobody* came forward to talk to the Boy Who Lived over his parents/mother. Didn't she have friends at school? Wasn't she that perky Head Girl? Why don't we hear anything about her? Why is she such a non-person? Because Rowling is a shitty author, yes, but still, if we want to make sense of these books, the idea that the existance of Lily had been preserved in public memory whilst her likes, dislikes and sheer personality had been fuzzified to hide politically sensitive information isn't so strange...
Not only is Harry and Hermione Rowlings' self-inserts, but Sirius also, because that spin on things is exactly what she is, if not outright, subconsciously trying to sell her readers, which dimishes an already sloppy, choppy and badly written tale even further.
But back to the theory that Dumbles confunded certain key persons to hide Sev's and Lily's early friendship (however one-sided - Lily certainly doesn't sound as if she cares over much about Severus, but she still, at the age of fifteen, keeps him dangling with promises that they are 'best friends', so the friendship can't have been a figment of Snape's imagination)
Sure, Olivander mentions Lily's wand, but confunding people of Sev and Lily's friendship doesn't mean erasing all memory of Lily, the Mother of The Boy Who Lived. It merely lets people remember her in a rather vague way and prohibits people from thinking to much about her exept in the most abstract of ways.
How well would Olivander have known her? He would've seen her when she was eleven and bought her wand from him, and that would be it. Maybe she bought her wand together with Severus, maybe not. Even so, it wouldn't be all that difficult for Dumbledore to confund Olivander a tiny teensy bit. Dumbledore gave Olivander a Fawkes feather for Harry's wand, after all, and we are never told when he did this. Would Dumbles not have asked Olivander, after Voldie Death I, what the core of Tom Riddle's wand was (so that Olivander learns then and there who Voldemort truly was, a piece of information that is NOT common knowledge) only to return a few days later with a second phoenix feather. A little prodding about 'poor Lily' would show Dumbles exactly how much or how little Olivander knew about Sev and Lily and the gift of another feather would be the perfect opportunity for a bit of foolish wandwaving...
Why am I trying to make sense of these stupid books?!!
Anyway, it remains idiotic that in such a small community that is the WW, where everyone is related in some way with everyone else, and everyone goes to the same school so whole generations know eachother 'back from school' even when they aren't related (I still say that Dumbledore's removal of Slughorn and shoehorning in of Severus was part and parcel of his plan to scapegoat the Slytherins. Slughorn and Slytherin was essential for muggleborns to slide into wizarding society, but with his removal and the scapegoating, that gate was closed to muggleborns, which didn't do them a favour at all, but I digress) In a society where everyone knows everyone else, it's extremely strange that nobody, *nobody* came forward to talk to the Boy Who Lived over his parents/mother. Didn't she have friends at school? Wasn't she that perky Head Girl? Why don't we hear anything about her? Why is she such a non-person? Because Rowling is a shitty author, yes, but still, if we want to make sense of these books, the idea that the existance of Lily had been preserved in public memory whilst her likes, dislikes and sheer personality had been fuzzified to hide politically sensitive information isn't so strange...