Love Her, Love Her Child

These days, I have been read the series of Harry Potter for a second time. Something in the books made me think deep.

I think my favorite character in this series may be Professor Severus Snape. He was being alive just for Lily. Snape served for Voldemort just because he didn’t want Lily to marry James Potter. Therefore, when he knew that Voldemort would kill Lily because of the prediction he told Voldemort, he was regretful and even kneed down to beg Voldemort not to kill Lily. After Lily’s death, Snape made a decision that he would protect Lily’s son, Harry Potter. His love had gone beyond death. Although Lily would never love him, he still tried his best to protect Lily and the thing she valued most.

Snape’s behavior made me think of another character, Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights. He was faced to the same problem as Snape. His favorite girl, Catharine, married to another man. However, when Catharine died after she gave birth to her daughter, young Catharine, Heathcliff started to revenge the girl because she was her father’s daughter. I wonder why Heathcliff didn’t treat young Catharine as her mother’s daughter and protect her just like what Snape did.

The reason may be that Catharine chose her husband just because he was richer than Heathcliff. She wanted a comfortable and luxurious life which Heathcliff cannot give her at that moment. And Heathcliff, as an adopted boy, was looked down on him when he was young. He actually wanted to revenge the whole society whose principle was that money is everything. However, Snape separated from Lily because of his own fault. He shouted at Lily “Mudblood!” Maybe it was because of Snape’s strange personality, but his personality was also related to his childhood experience. The difference is that Snape didn’t try to hurt others to get comfort. Therefore, After his death, Happy appreciated him from heart and name one of his children who got the same green eyes from Lily after him. Heathcliff did, but when he was old, he was trapped in the yearning to Catharine, and finally died due to the guilty. It was the punishment to him.

I think these were two opposite different love. I will do as Snape. The reason is simple. If the one I loved died, I would like him to leave this world without worry.