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Where Does Severus Snape Young First Meet Lily Potter?

2025-08-27 04:41:07 135

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Quinn

2025-08-28 00:43:49

I like to look at this from the perspective of the text and what J.K. Rowling actually shows us. We first get a childhood glimpse of Severus and Lily in the Pensieve scenes in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'. Those bits make it clear their friendship predates Hogwarts — they’re neighbours in a Muggle area and met while still very young, playing near the Evans household. The books never stage a dramatic, named location for the very first hello; instead, it’s implied they were local kids who crossed paths in everyday places: streets, gardens, maybe outside school.

What matters more than the exact street name is how ordinary that beginning is. Two children, different backgrounds, a quick connection. That grounded, domestic origin heightens the later contrast — them at school, in different houses, with social pressures and politics pulling them apart. If you’re mapping their timeline, put their first meeting in the Muggle neighbourhood where Lily grew up, sometime years before they boarded the Hogwarts Express.

Kelsey

2025-08-29 17:58:24

I’ve always treated that early meeting like a little origin myth — not heroic, but intimately human. In the books we only get fragments: Dumbledore pulls Snape’s memories out of the Pensieve in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', and through those fragments it's clear they first knew one another as neighbourhood children rather than schoolmates. There’s a texture to the way Rowling frames it: everyday places, a house or lane where kids played, a shared childhood locale, which is why their bond feels so grounded.

From a more analytical angle, that mundane meeting becomes important thematically. It creates a baseline of real, pre-Hogwarts intimacy that makes their later political and social clashes — blood-status attitudes, house divisions, and painful betrayals — hit much harder. When I reread those memory scenes, I’m struck by how much the ordinary setting feeds the tragedy: these two started in the same small world, and everything that followed tore that world apart.

Grady

2025-08-30 15:55:10

If you want the short, on-the-nose version: Severus and Lily first met as kids in the Muggle neighbourhood where Lily lived. The scene we actually see is from Snape’s Pensieve-memory in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', which shows them together before Hogwarts.

I love that it isn’t a grand, cinematic meeting — it’s small and domestic. That ordinary origin is what makes their later story feel so personal and, honestly, heartbreaking.

Otto

2025-09-01 16:00:11

I still get a little chill thinking about that first meeting — it's one of those tiny, quiet moments that ripples through the whole saga. In canon we see their first encounters through Severus's memories, which are shown in the Pensieve in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'. Those memories make it clear they met long before Hogwarts, as children living in the same Muggle neighbourhood.

The image that sticks with me is simple: two kids playing in a lane or outside a house, not knowing they’re about to shape each other’s lives for decades. Lily is already bright and blunt; Severus is awkward and hungry for belonging. That small, ordinary meeting — not at platform nine and three-quarters, not in a castle corridor, but in a mundane street — is what makes their relationship feel so tragic and real. Thinking about it on a rainy afternoon, I can almost picture their boots splashing in the same puddle, a friendship beginning without knowing how complicated it will become.

Zachary

2025-09-02 11:50:08

On a quieter, more sentimental note: the first time Severus met Lily wasn’t in some ceremony or schoolyard duel, but in the simple neighbourhood spaces of childhood. The books give us this through Snape’s memories (you see them in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'), so we know their friendship began before Hogwarts, when they were just kids in the same Muggle area.

That image — two children running around the same street, one impulsive and kind, the other awkward and searching — always tugs at me. It explains why Lily’s opinion mattered so much to Severus later on, and why losing that closeness became such a driving force for him. It’s a reminder that huge stories often start with very small, ordinary moments, and it makes me wonder about all the little decisions that change lives.

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I get lost in fan art rabbit holes more often than I'd like to admit, so here's how I track down young Severus Snape pieces when the mood strikes me. First stop is Pixiv and DeviantArt — search terms like 'young Severus Snape', 'teen Snape', or even the Japanese '若いスネイプ' if you want more varied styles. Pixiv especially has a ton of anime-influenced art and you can follow tags or bookmark artists. Instagram and Twitter (now X) are great for scrolling; try hashtags like '#YoungSnape' or '#SeverusSnape'. Pinterest is my go-to for collecting a bunch of images into one board quickly, but always click through to the original artist before saving. I also poke around Reddit communities (for example, fandom and fanart subreddits) and smaller Discord servers where artists share sketches. If you want prints or commissions, Etsy and artists' own shops are where I look. One last tip: use reverse-image search to find the source and always credit or support the artist if you repost — it makes the whole fandom nicer, and finding a new artist to follow is such a thrill.

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