Snape's love for Lily is often considered obsessive and problematic, but there are hints in Harry Potter that his feelings have been misrepresented.

You have your mother’s eyes,” a dying Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) tells Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) in 2011’s Harry ...

Because of this, few dark wizards can conjure them. As far as readers and viewers know, Snape was the only Death Eater to cast a Patronus spell throughout the series. Snape anonymously sent a ...

Snape - even then right in Voldemort's inner circle - must have known that Wormtail was a fellow Death Eater and a traitor to the Order. He therefore knew that Wormtail would use his ˜friendship ...