there's this part in the PRINCE'S TALE chapter.
dumbledore and snape were having this conversation and it came to a point where dumbledore asks snape about "harry growing in snape's heart".. then snape casts this patronus: a doe. then he says.. FOR HIM? then he says afterwards: always.
WHAT DID THAT MEAN? did snape really love harry or he just did those things because of his love, lily?
2007-08-02 21:03:42 · 21 answers · asked by krissa 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
For Lilly, not Harry. The doe was her patronus as well.
2007-08-02 21:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by Max 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Snape has never loved Harry. Harry looked too much like his father and Snape despised Harry's father. After all, he was the man who had taken Snape's one and only true love from him.
Everything Snape did on behalf of Harry was done because of his love for Lily and because of his guilt for selling Lily out to Voldemort.
If you can recall, when Harry was looking at Snape's memories in the Pensieve, Snape confessed to Dumbledore that he asked Voldemort to spare Lily. Snape was okay with Voldemort killing Harry and his father. And Dumbledore said to that, "You disgust me."
The doe patronus signified his love for Lily, not Harry. Lily's patronus was a doe also, as Harry told Voldemort at their final battle at Hogwarts.
2007-08-03 14:23:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dumbledore asks Snape if he's starting to care for Harry to which Snape replies "For him" and then casts his patronus. When Dumbledore asks if Snape is still in love with Lily (which is what he's asking when he says "After all these years") Snape then replies with "Always." Snape could care less about Harry beyond the fact that he's Lily's son and their keeping him alive and as safe as possible for her. But he would always love Lily.
2007-08-03 04:25:09 · answer #3 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dumbledore got Snape to do those things for Harry, because Dumbledore knew of Snape's "Great Love" for Lily Potter (Harry's mother). Snape hated Harry because he reminded him of James Potter, whom Snape also hared.
Hope that clears things up
2007-08-03 07:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by chernick_jonathan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Doe was Lily not Harry, Snape was proving that he still love Lily after all this time.
2007-08-03 10:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by Can music save your mortal soul? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you find out clearly in the seventh book that Snape loves Lily and he feels obliged to help Harry.
2007-08-03 04:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of Lily. but I think Snape never hated Harry.When he looks into Harry's eyes(that are excatly as the same as Lily's)He remembered his love and wanted to help Harry.When Harry wanted to pick up G.G's sward Snape's Potronus helped Harry.
2007-08-04 05:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by sarah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His Patronus was a Doe, the same as Lily's because he always loved Lily. That is why he will always protect Harry.
2007-08-03 04:48:43 · answer #8 · answered by JP 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All for Lily only, I'm afraid. But I think that maybe he did have a 'slight' affection for Harry as he had Lily's eyes and he saw her everytime he looked at Harry. He couldnt get passed the fact that he resembled James more though.
2007-08-03 12:25:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
meaning that he couldnt care less about Harry, everything he was doing, he was doing for Lily, and he produced the patronus, a doe, because thats what Lily's patronus was
2007-08-03 10:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by kkluv13436 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He said those things because harry was the son of the women he had loved all his life and the one last reminder of her. After all Harry may have looked like hios father but ha had his mothers eyes. I think it was quite a moving moment personally.
2007-08-03 04:18:59 · answer #11 · answered by Nicky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋