May 4, 2007
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Two and half months and counting....
Until the final installment of the Harry Potter series is published!
My brother ran across an intriguing suggestion regarding the last book:
It was not Dumbledore who died, but Snape. Dumbledore and Snape had 'switched' places, using the polyjuice potion.Therefore, Snape enters into that magical contract to protect Draco in his mission to kill Dumbledore. Thereafter, Snape and Dumbledore switch places via polyjuice. Since Snape had no intention to honor the magical contract, then his penalty was the blackened arm. The magical penalty did not care what form Snape took, polyjuice or no.Why Snape would volunteer to die is a bit hazy to me. It does rather explain, however, why Snape did not simply kill Harry after Dumbledore was killed, since it was actually Dumbledore, disguised as Snape, going off with the death-eaters.
Granted, the biggest problem is Snape volunteering to die. Not very Snapeish behavior.
Still, as a theory it has possibilities.
Comments (4)
It's very interesting though and fits what I've been feeling about Snape, that he's going to die in service of the Good - and that somehow he has known this for many many years - like maybe even from the time Dumbledore allowed him into Hogwarts. There was a hint somewhere that leaving the Death Eaters, I think it was, was done "at great cost to himself." I should probably read them again - that phrase might have referred to his protection of Harry on various occasions.
Where's Jane? She'll know what to think about all this.
Sounds Dickensian... "Tis a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before..." Man, I can hardly wait either!
That's nuts. Where does he propose the switch took place? No proposed time for the switch makes sense, because Polyjuice doesn't give you acting ability. There's no way Snape could "become" the Dumbledore that took Harry on the failed quest for the Horcrux. Unless, of course, character development means absolutely nothing in the novels, which of course it does.
Nope. The real Snape really killed the real Dumbledore because Dumbledore had authorized his unbreakable vow to Narcissa, probably because Snape's original bona fide that Dumbledore would not reveal (i.e., Dumbledore's reason for trusting Snape) was that he had taken an unbreakable vow to remain loyal to the Order, and Dumbledore sacrificed himself to protect Snape's cover (which would have been blown had he refused to kill Dumbledore), and therefore the Order. That's been my story since I read it, and I'm sticking to it unless and until the last book reveals it to be wrong.
Hmmmmmmmmmm?
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