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[cathyweasley]

It's been a strange weekend. I really enjoyed the hype leading up to the HP book, but was disappointed in the book itself.
I liked the beginning - though Snape was so convincing as a death eater it freaked me a bit, but he'd have to be wouldn't he. I liked the way they got Harry out of Privet Drive and that Dudley had something nice to say to him. I

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[mexicantt]

I think that no one told Harry about Lily and Snape being friends was because the people who knew didn't know Harry; the Marauders were not her friends. I remember answering that question in the Snape/Lily thread, heh. Her friends didn't include James' friends until their seventh year, at which point in time Lily and Snape weren't friends anymore, or at the least were not close anymore.

[cathyweasley]

The thing is that I don't see how the Marauders could NOT know. Given that James and Sirius saw Lily and Sev together on the train, and that they were allegedly best friends it must have been the talk of Hogwarts. Lily Evans the muggle-born Gryffindor best friends with Snape the dark arts geek Slytherin. I always suspected that Lupin knew. Snape's hanging around outside the Gryffindor common room after SWM would not have gone unnoticed either. My only thought is that they thought that it would increase Harry's dislike of Snape because ultimately Snape was a rival for Lily's affections - he wanted more than friendship. That is how they would have remembered Snape - as James's rival for Lily not as Lily's best friend when they arrived at Hogwarts. I still don't know where Sirius got his "He knew more curses that the seventh years when he arrived at Hogwarts" - I think that was the same as Snape's "Harry's mediocre etc" comments to Dumbledore - Sirius remembers things as he wants to remember them rather than as they actually were.