just a wee thought, if you put evans backwards, you get snave, which is of course only one letter away from snape, both incidentally (sp?) are only one letter away from snake, patron of slytherin. JKR is of course very into names and all that jazz so.......or maybe not
Name things are a little... amateur in this case.
Anagrams are really the only dignified use of them ... I did like the I am Lord Voldemort - Tom Marvolo Riddle usage.
i don't see what's wrong with backwards stuff, look at the mirror of Erised [desire] and also just because evans is a common name it doesn't mean anything, it's the name JKR chose for her character
(sorry for the dbl psot, but these two things came seperately)
I always thought lilly was the one who liked Snape not the other way around. I don't know why but i felt like that. Why did she took his part when James was mocking him... And not only that. But I think that she liked him...
I really don't think Snape could have liked Lily. I mean, it would be a great twist, but this book is already flowing with details and small hidden problems. But the fact that Snape "killed" Lily by giving details, and then was so deeply sorry, may have been the reason Dumbledore trusted Snape.