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 * Thank you for your welcome! Yes, I'm new here, so thank you again for helping me in a polite way.. :) It also occured to me that there were some tiny little bits (like the whole Petunia part I was trying to add) that weren't there, but It never occured to me it was intentional. Therefore, thank you for pointing that out.. About the secound, she didn't confirm it exactly.. but she said that his eyes have great importance later on (in book 7), Snape and Dumbledore speak of it in the memories and although Snape didn't say it, why else would he ask Harry to look at him? I hope you consider my opinion, and Thank you again for the welcome and the hand :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Selenesetokaibapegasus (talk • contribs) 5 October 2007


 * Some more minor pointers: do not begin your comments with spaces, it messes up the formatting. In talk pages, when replying one uses the colon ":" to cause indentation; more colons, more intentation. You'll notice I moved your reply, and my reply is now further indented. Also, remember to sign your comments, even when they are in your own talk page; this can be accomplished by typing ~ (four tildes) which will automatically print the date and link to you, like my comments above.
 * Now, as to your replies. The importance of Harry's eyes is already mentioned in the page, in the section detailing Snape's loyalty. The point here is that you are interpreting the words "Look... at... me" as a final wish with a particular desire. Absent an explicit confirmation of this fact, or an explicit textual source, you are engaging in literary analysis and interpretation. This is considered original research, and Wikipedia Policy explicitly forbids including original research, especially when stated as fact (as you did).
 * The tiny bits may be absent precisely because they are tiny. The Wikipedia article is not meant to be an exhaustive biography or a complete retelling of the books from the point of view of Snape. So not everything is, and more importantly, not everything should be mentioned. If you read your inclusion, you will see that it talks a lot more about Petunia and Harry than about Snape; Snape is almost incidental there. So, ask yourself: is that really about Snape? Or is it about Petunia or Harry? When we see this mention, it's about them, not about Snape at all. By the time we learn it is about Snape, it is so tiny and immaterial (in the middle of the chapter detailing Snape's story)... It's really Rowling burying a bone in an earlier book so she can go back and dig it up later and point to it. But is it really a notable enough mention to get its own paragraph in Snape's article? Magidin 02:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)