Well I just had a thought...

[doddiemoemoe]

I attended the Pottercast in Thousand Oaks, CA this past 
weekend..and had the unfortunate opportunities to sit by (I moved 
around a time or two) folks who kept extoling the virtues of Snape.
(who also kept insisting that DD had never been wrong...and of 
course one of the reasons why we love him so is because DD admited 
he had in fact, been wrong.

Now, most know I had a hating Snape meltdown a time or two.(really 
only once but it makes me look better if I say it happened more than 
once--haha to be a rebel)...trust me...never post a hate/angry fest 
on a message board you respect...LOL brings much shame..

So with DD definitely not coming back..and everyone up in arms about 
Snape good or evil...and despite any new theories on time travel...I 
predict Snape will die..and he will not being a hero nor 
villian..Snape will forever reside in Gray. LOL  (some will 
memorialize him and some will give him a repsectable burial in 
fandom)

Anyway, how else to keep the hype up?(and why else keep oop movie 
and DH book release dates so close--especially after Snape has 
appeared as such a nasty git on screen?!?)

So when they asked a question as to whether Harry would die or 
not...I cheered whole heartedly to the shock of most in the room. 
LMAO(my kids blushed so much!)

I said this not because of all the talk and polls but because there 
are few discussions about whether or not Snape will live 
irregardless of the fact that most discussions are about Snape...I 
believe it would be great if we never KNEW!!!  Kudos for JKR to 
create such an ambiguous character!

Other than Snape, I am really enjoying this new theory that Harry 
time travels back(via Ron's watch) to the events at Godrics 
hollow....has words with "past" DD gives him the cloak and then 
leaves...hence the words "returned" when Harry gets the invisibility 
cloak when he comes back to Hogwarts, the fact that Ron ends up with 
the watch, and also why Hagrid brings Harry to Privet Drive, rather 
than DD who wants to keep the timeline as clean as he possibly 
can....(and if Harry WAS at GH that night...)and events must turn 
out as they must...and if Snape was there that night, or worse heard 
about it from Peter Pettigrew, or worse Voldie himself..*heavy 
sigh*...like I said..I want and think the big gray area at the end 
of book seven should be snape.(imagine analysis and discusion until 
the end of time)..Just like Hamlet--woohoo!) LOL

Doddie