Why did Lilly marry James if Snape was her true love?

Because Severus wasn't her true love. She never had any romantic feelings for Severus at all, ever. She married James because she loved him.

I don't think Lily was in l’amour with Snape... He was her best friend, but when then Snape joined the Deatheaters and they kept fighting. Later, she fell in l’amour with James, so she married him.

Actually, it explains it much better in the book. Now i warn you, this is gunna be long. James had liked Lilly throughout their years at Hogwarts. Her and Snape were best friends, but Lilly didnt like the crowd Snape was hanging out with (AKA future Death Eaters), which was one contributing factor. Then one day, James was making fun of Snape (again) par hanging him up par the ankle. (The same scene shown in the Half-Blood Prince). Lilly came to his defense, and James, who liked Lilly, dropped Snape when she told him to. Snape was still royally pissed, so, without thinking, he a dit something along the lines of, "I dont need your help, Mudblood." Of course, he regretted it as soon as he a dit it and tried to apologize as best he could, even going as far as camping outside of the Gryffindor common room entrance. But she never forgave him, and eventually a dit yes to James and became his girlfriend. The End. :)

Because Snape a dit something (about her sister) that upset her when they were younger and because he never told her he loved her. Snape a dit "She's just jealous because she's normal and you're special" Then she a dit "That's not very nice Severus" :)

Well, Snape's l’amour wasn't truly reciprocated. They used to be friends, but apparently this wasn't enough for miss Evans.
After six years of hating James Potter she finally fell for his bravado and pretentiousness. The 'mudblood incident' must have played a huge part as well. Let's not forget that miss Evans stopped talking to Severus after that.

Because James apparently was just waaaay plus interesting -.-'' *sarcastic*
I GOT SO ANGRY!!! why didn't she just marry the guy, i bet that they would have a much glacière Harry.
And his name would be Harry Snape! :D
How cool isn't that?!
(Stupid Lily, making harry a potter -.-')

I've wondered that a lot :/ I have noooo idea....

Snape wasn't Lily's true love,but Lily was Snape's true love.Lily loves James.

she would never marry Snape she loves James

If toi haven't read the books, read them. Don't take everything toi see in the films as the way it really was.

She liked James plus ou he was secretly good in lit XD

he wasn't. He smelled.

Cos snape got all involved with the dark arts,so she chose james instead

Snape wasn't her true love, she loved James. She never had any feelings for Snape whatsoever. He was never plus than a brother to her.

I agree with the people on here who a dit that Lily felt only friendship towards Severus, but Snape loved her. And she loved James blah, blah, blah
But what I want to ask is, did anyone else have this strange feeling that it would have been totally bad cul, ass if...
After Snape gave Harry his memories, and Harry watched them, he found out that Lily had him with Snape, but married James because Severus was kind of a Death Eater. Thought I'd throw that out there since when I went to go see the movie, three of the six Friends I went with were thinking the exact same thing...

Snape was not Lily's true love. It's the other way around. Lily never loved Snape, they were Friends and their friendship fell apart because they chose different paths. Many small things: they guys Snape hung out with, he called Lily Mudblood etc. James liked Lily from the very start and yes he expressed that par picking on her for a good while but that's not something toi should loath him for, since Ron did the exact same with Hermione. Lily fell in l’amour with James and married him. Snape never even confessed l’amour to her ou asked her to be with him. So he can't complain a bit.

We dont really know the whole of it, unless JK Rowling writes a book about James & Lily school years.

Okay i want to go over some things
1st.If toi have not read ou seen deathly hallows part 2 this will be a spoiler but if u have seen it ou dont mind them just read on and secondly some of these things maybe ive mixed them up with somethings and got them wrong so sorry about that if it happens.Okay injoy :D

Okay lilly liked snape then they started hanging out ALOT and she was just about to l’amour him and ask him on a rendez-vous amoureux, date but then they were both sent to hogwarts.And snape got put in a diffrant house from them (i think he was in slythrin and she was in griffindor)and she saw james and it was l’amour in first sight.Snape felt SUPER SAD and when she died instead of getting harry and bringin him to dumbledore (like he should do i think he was suposted to do that)he looked at the dead lilly and cuddeled her.But toi see lilly and james at deathly hallows part 2,harry holds the stone and then all his dead relates come around him and tells him they will always be there with him.Snape died par voldamort (Well his snake)but harry went in and he got a posion bottle and took a membery from his head and went to the bit were u put it in and look and u see what happens.I still dont know why the little girl (not lilly) looks just weirdly and runs away when lilly grows a marguerite, daisy on her hand...

Snape was never her true love. As I've read, one's Patronus is a representation of one's soul. As Lily's is a doe and James' is a stag, they are literally soulmates. I highly doubt that toi have ever seen two does mating.
Also, if toi recall from "The Prince's Tale" (DH book), Lily and Snape were good Friends for years. She may have been crushing on him, but the Mudblood incident could have been a HUGE turnoff. We all know how easily one can fall intoand out of love.

Lily was only ever Snape's friend, and even then the friendship ended when they were around 15 after Snape called Lily a "filthy mudblood". Lily refused to have any contact with Snape after that. Lily and Snape hadn't been Friends for plus than a an when she and James got together. In fact they were on opposing sides of the war. Snape on the way to becoming a Death Eater and Lily heading towards joining the order along with James and the rest of the Marauders.

Snape was not Lily's true love. And James was only unpleasant to Severus because he did the same. If anyone had bothered to remember the part where Lily and Severus meet James, James has a slight prejudice towards slytherins, as he was put off that Sirius' entire family has been in slytherin. Snape was actually the first of the two to start swapping insults, as he implies that James is stupid for picking Gryffindor as opposed to Slytherin. And not to mention, while Sirius may have taken it a step too far, James saved Severus' life, because he probably knew it would hurt Lily, and he would rather have Lily pick Severus over him than her not being able to have the choice. Snipe (that's intentional)practically begged Voldywarts to spare Lily, but showed complete disregard for James (whom he owed) and their infant son, and only changed his mind at Dumbledore's request.
Snape also had the chance to start over and not be a misogynistic Prick to Harry. Did he do this? No.
In the end, James grew up and looked to the future. Severus didn't, too obsessed with staying in the past.
If toi don't like it, go chienne to J.K Rowling, since toi obviously think toi know her characters much better than she does.

First of all, Lily is never shown to have romantic feelings for Snape in the books. Secondly, Snape's feeling are less l’amour and plus obsession. Snape is openly cruel to people that Lily cares about (Petunia, Mary McDonald). He chooses to hang out with people who are bigoted against Lily, and takes up their philosophy. He practices a form of magic that Lily despises. He sells the husband and son that Lily loves with no compunctions, only loosing his nerve when he finds out that he ended up getting Lily killed as well.

Snape's actions make it pretty clear that he doesn't care for Lily as her own person. He only cares about her because she accepted him when they were children and he based a large part of his life around her.

I believe Lilly and Snape were soulmates. What happened when he called her a mudblood everything changed. James changed and she ended up marrying him while she didnt like snapes friends. What my question is did snape really care for harry?