I expected it...

Honestly...those last chapters looked like she got them out of fanfiction.net.

no joke.

No surprises there about his feelings for lily though..it made sense...and now that we've been banged in the head with " you have your mother's eyes harry"
Snape's last words...look at me...are poignant.

OMG...I didnt even catch that his last words were 'you have your mother's eyes Harry.' Thats awsome!!!

It was my theory since the 5th book.

I thought that maybe he had a crush, but not love, I mean he did call her a mudblood.

Had no clue!!

Oh my. I always thought that he loved her, because he never said anything bad about her. I know that that's a bad reason, but somehow that's why I suspected it.

that one threw me for a loop *smacks head*

I was more surprised that so many people got it right. The 'look at me' thing thats sad! I thought he was like Voldemort (which is pretty stupid) I thought he hated everyone and never had friends and never wanted them.

I knew he liked her but i didnt think it was love and I didt know his life revolved around her....

I always suspected, but i didn't know it was on that big a scale, like solsis says.

Yeah like solsis said. Plus, he did call her a mudblood that one time...

though it did explain his hatred of james and harry

that ive predicted since book five but it was bolstered by book six and proven by book seven

he only called her a Mudblood because he was so hurt and embarrassed by what James had done to him and he reacted as we all too often do - by snapping at the person nearest and dearest to us - it's a common defence mechanism and the fallout from that one ill-chosen remark has haunted him for the rest of his life

id always thought he was a poor child that grew up in a disfunctional family. And i also thought his father was abusive for some reason.

Well. i guess my theories are wayy off. I actually thought he liked narcissa for a long time, lol.

I never really got the 'look at me' thing until now. That makes it even sader.

Yes, I was a little suprised. I mean JKR really didn't give any indication that he even knew his mother. Had she laced the books with their friendship ... maybe it wouldn't have been such a shock. But then again, many writers don't know where there characters are going until the very end.

It just felt right. I can't say exactly what made me think that he loved her, but I suspected for a long time. That's what I like about JKR's writing. She doesn't hit you over the head with clues, but you still get an idea of where she's going.

yea sorta. it was a bit weird for Snape to like her, even when she never liked him. lol. xox

It was a big and the most unpleasant surprise for me

Once again I figured. Especially since he harbored so much resent toward James. And never commented on Lily...hmmm..

I was rather surprised, but it didn't make me smack my head and make my jaw drop to to the floor.

I thought he was in love with Narcissa :)

i always thought he had a crush on her but after he called her a mudblood i sort of lost that idea

There had to be some reason that James and Sirius hated him so much. They must have known.

i NEVER would have guessed!!!! with the cirque du freak series you can tell when the author was going to spring the surprise! i knew in book 1 practically who the vampaneze lord was we didn't find out til book 9 and i was right! with j k rowling you can never tell and i love that about her!

It depends on when you are talking about, I knew Snape loved her before the last book, but I can't remember which one, but when I read all the clues I was shocked...

it was a total surprise for me to be honest ... i have never expected that, but that was a great storyline though.

i suspected that snape haboured feelings for lilly, cuz if u ask me his hatred/dislike for james and harry seemed abit over the top for me

i suspected he might be, but i was still amazed i was right. it makes sense, though; why else would he hate james and harry so much?

I understood it since the fifth.

There was enough subtle hints that he had feelings for her. Everyone has a childhood crush/love.

no

yes, because i only refer to the movies before, and lily is not in snape's worst memory (in the movie), i was shocked to see potter bullying snape, but i was more shocked that snape loved lily from the start when i started reading the books..

I was a little surprised......When i found out it made sense but it didn't take away from the " Really?!?" factor

Even in his childhood it was expressed that he had feelings for her..he always had and he always will..im sad that they didnt end up together but if they did..there would be no harry potter

I was a bit because I thought hat Snape was one of thoese pure blood people but was fortunately wrong.

Only because in the beginning, I never would've guessed he even NEW her. But by Prisoner of Azkaban with Remus and Sirius's talking to Severus at the Shreiking Shack, I began to wonder.....

Wasn't surprised, but I was hoping it'd be someone else.

I came to the conclusion myself. I was surprised when I thought of the idea and I obsessed over the idea for weeks. So juicy. I was thrilled when I found it was true.

I didn't read the last three books until last summer and by the time I came to this part I had been hit by as many spoilers as one can possibly be hit with.
I was a foolish girl back then. "I've just picked up my Harry Potter books again and realised how amazing this series is. I know what I'll do, I'll join the online fandom because they definitely won't be talking about what happens in the last book. No wayyy"

^^,, I would have had no idea.

no i just had a feeling

i thought it was so romantic but sad =)

They would be the cutest couple!

Snape needs something to make up for his very, very bad childhood!

I had an idea.

It was verry sweet...

I had a hunch since the penseive in book 5.

I knew from the beginning that there was a reason why Snape was always brooding.

I knew because in the first moveie he look at harry and he was not looking at his scar he was looking into his eyes because they were lily eyes and he had not seen them in 10 years

i was shocked at how deep it went. I assumed a friendship and maybe puppy love.. but nothing of the deepness it truly went! I myself dont care for the whole lily/severus relationship though..

lily didn`t love him anyways.

I guessed by book 5.
Did NOT get the meaning of 'Look at me' for aaaages though.
Harry has Lilys eyes... Snape just wanted to die under Lilys gaze...
That's so beautiful!
I think it was also because he wanted Harry to see the truth in his dying eyes.

I didn't suspect it at all! Maybe because I was 10 when I read all 7 of the books...

I had it figured out in Prisoner of Azkaban.

And yes, Lily DID love Severus, but as a friend only. I've read that JK has said that if it weren't for his interest in the Dark Arts, Lily very well may have fallen for him.

Sometimes friendships can be far deeper than romantic entanglements. The fact that it was an unrequited love doesn't make it less powerful or profound.

I wasn't really expected Snape to be given a love interest, especially Harry's mom, but it does make a lot of since in the end.

It's not so much that I expected it to be that he loved anyone, really, I just wasn't surprised that she'd throw something like that at us.

yes quite because he was always insulting "mudbloods"

i know many peouple are saying this but ive been pairing lily/sev from book 3 when i started really getting into it i never thought it was going to happen when it did i squealed like a lil fan girl lol

I was blown away when I first read it! It never even occurred to me, which is ridiculous because it seems so obvious now, haha

somehow i knew from the 2nd book something was diffrent

No he didn't seem the kind of person that loves someone...even less a "mudblood"...but his love is beautiful and makes sense...that's why he hated Harry so much...because he saw James in him...and even more, he saw Lily and the life that he could have had if his love was consumed...

I really liked the theory after reading Order of the Phoenix. Was pretty cool (and sad) that it was true.

I wasn't surprised, I was more like "Ohhhh, now it all makes sense!"

@perfidia: He was? Where's all that information at?

^^
In his memories when Snape said he never meant to call Lily a Mudblood and it just slipped out, she said he called every Muggle-born a Mudblood and asked why she should be any different. So Snape obviously was a fan of blood purity in addition to the Dark Arts which is why it suprised me a lot that he was in love with Lily.

he was always insulting "mudbloods"
Keyword: always. We hear him say it once, in a high-stress emotional situation. Lily, before getting mad, never once says anything about Severus calling muggle-borns 'mudbloods.' Considering how offensive a word it is, and considering Lily couldn't make an excuse when Severus uses it in front of witnesses, it's highly unlikely he "always" used the word.

One times does not equal always.

@bri-marie: Well said.

There must have been reasons for his behaviour. And love is always a good reason, isn't it?

Only because I accidently read that he did before I actually made it to The Half Blood Prince.

I was very surprised, I didn't expect such a drastic turn. But in the end all made sense... only a deep love could make work things like that :)

I mean..only in the books!!

This i didn't expect i knew there was a reason but didn't think Lily came into the equation.

I was suspecting that he had a childhood crush on her since the 5th book but I didn't expect Snape to be that deeply in love with her.

You all guessed that he was in love with Lily. Really?