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 ...
He ultimately turned down the "Harry Potter" role, paving the way for ... Since his happiest and most loving memories were with Harry's mother, Lily, his Patronus took the same form as hers ...