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(part 2)
And how had Potter learned the Levicorpus? He had told only Lily of his new spell
While I think this is reasonable (Lily = a leak), we have absolutely no canon evidence for how James got hold of the spell.
(Lily had, of course, shown the spell to James to prove that 'look, Sev *isn't* a Dark wizard. He makes these spells himself, you know, he doesn't learn them from the other Slytherins. He's very clever.. Look at this one..")
This is an interesting bunny, though!
So he lashed out in utter fury at her, calling her the one name he knows would hurt the most because he *wants* to hurt her that one time, for so betraying him (and he is immediatly sorry for doing so)
This I can believe. (Hence "in that moment she was every bit the filthy name he called her", as I wrote in one![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif)
less_for_you fic.)
If James was really a nice guy, then Lily must've been a nasty golddigging bitch who dumped her poor halfblood friend so she can marry the rich jock/biggest bully on the playground. Then Snape must've been mentally disturbed for continuing to carry a torch for such a horrid girl.
Um, whoa, whoa!
If James was really a nice guy, then Lily, who was also supposed to be a niceguy girl, is naturally better with him than with Severus, who whatever wonderful things you can say about him, is not "a nice guy".
It's not nice to ditch an older, poorer friend for a shinier one, no. That's part of the tragedy of Severus's story. Lily was a teenaged girl at the time. It would be wonderful if she had had acted otherwise and gone with loyalty over "coolness", but I might have done the same thing at that age. Thus I can only condemn her in hindsight as much as I do myself: "That's wrong and I know it, but teens will be teens" or something like that.
And how had Potter learned the Levicorpus? He had told only Lily of his new spell
While I think this is reasonable (Lily = a leak), we have absolutely no canon evidence for how James got hold of the spell.
(Lily had, of course, shown the spell to James to prove that 'look, Sev *isn't* a Dark wizard. He makes these spells himself, you know, he doesn't learn them from the other Slytherins. He's very clever.. Look at this one..")
This is an interesting bunny, though!
So he lashed out in utter fury at her, calling her the one name he knows would hurt the most because he *wants* to hurt her that one time, for so betraying him (and he is immediatly sorry for doing so)
This I can believe. (Hence "in that moment she was every bit the filthy name he called her", as I wrote in one
less_for_you fic.)If James was really a nice guy, then Lily must've been a nasty golddigging bitch who dumped her poor halfblood friend so she can marry the rich jock/biggest bully on the playground. Then Snape must've been mentally disturbed for continuing to carry a torch for such a horrid girl.
Um, whoa, whoa!
If James was really a nice guy, then Lily, who was also supposed to be a nice
It's not nice to ditch an older, poorer friend for a shinier one, no. That's part of the tragedy of Severus's story. Lily was a teenaged girl at the time. It would be wonderful if she had had acted otherwise and gone with loyalty over "coolness", but I might have done the same thing at that age. Thus I can only condemn her in hindsight as much as I do myself: "That's wrong and I know it, but teens will be teens" or something like that.