Also his remarks about his mentors not telling him something, which seems very likely to be that Lily was shallow.
Lily doesn’t really strike me as all that shallow. At least I haven’t seen much to suggest that she was more shallow than an average human female (with the emphasis there on the ‘human’). Even assuming Lily were particularly shallow—that isn’t the message that he needed from his mentor. Far more useful would be the message “quit being a pussy!”. For all intents and purposes it makes almost no difference to Snape how shallow Lily was.
This does not seem to follow as a reply to the grandparent.
Snape just had his first kiss because he wasted his life with a creepy obsession with a girl that was not available to him rather than growing up and living life like a sane person. Doesn’t everyone acknowledge/assume that?
One thing that may have prevented this unfortunate (and pathetic) turn of events may have been persuasive advice from mentors. Advice like “Lily is shallow” would have been better than nothing. Far more useful would be advice that encouraged the development of emotional self sufficiency and rudimentary ability to apply the concept of ‘fungibility’. Or a ticket to a Tim Minchin concert.
It’s not clear to me. What has Snape done or said that makes you think that?
He was making out with jailbait. (Far from proof, but evidence.)
Also his remarks about his mentors not telling him something, which seems very likely to be that Lily was shallow.
Or, perhaps, that his obsession with her was pathetic and he needed to move on with his life.
Lily doesn’t really strike me as all that shallow. At least I haven’t seen much to suggest that she was more shallow than an average human female (with the emphasis there on the ‘human’). Even assuming Lily were particularly shallow—that isn’t the message that he needed from his mentor. Far more useful would be the message “quit being a pussy!”. For all intents and purposes it makes almost no difference to Snape how shallow Lily was.
So then why did he just have his first kiss?
This does not seem to follow as a reply to the grandparent.
Snape just had his first kiss because he wasted his life with a creepy obsession with a girl that was not available to him rather than growing up and living life like a sane person. Doesn’t everyone acknowledge/assume that?
One thing that may have prevented this unfortunate (and pathetic) turn of events may have been persuasive advice from mentors. Advice like “Lily is shallow” would have been better than nothing. Far more useful would be advice that encouraged the development of emotional self sufficiency and rudimentary ability to apply the concept of ‘fungibility’. Or a ticket to a Tim Minchin concert.
Because he’s a misantropic nerd who’s spent his life obsessed with a dead woman?