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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

[info]sylvanawood
1/3/11 04:02 pm
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The Challenge for January 2011:

Lily revisited



Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

[info]alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.

Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).
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  • Re: If Severus is nuanced, so is Lily

    [info]sionna_raven
    1/13/11 01:04 pm (UTC)
    And I surely cannot be the only Snape fan out there who doesn't regard Lily as a bitch.


    No, you are not. I don't see her as a bitch; I see her as an ordinary girl. Nevertheless I interpret her behaviour much like Oryx does and it disappoints me, personally. I am aware that most of this disappointment stems from the high expectations by sources other than book canon, but that's the way it is. I don't like her, personal opinion, not objective judgement on her moral character. I can see her as a generally nice, even good person and still don't like her or want her as a friend. Some of the things she says to Severus are pushing every single button on my standards of friendship and that is not misogynic, because I hold boys/men to the same standards.

    just don't think that whole thing is ... written very well, on reflection. I can see what JKR was trying to do, but it sort of fails in the execution.


    Agreed, but canon is what is printed and IMHO we cannot a fictional by the way her author wanted her to write, if she had been able to.
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