Snape's tragic secret;; also, sleeping dragons

[allisondek at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26439

Well, he has to have one, doesn't he?  To explain his conversion from 
Death Eater to Dumbldore's confidant?

May I suggest...

That he is a widower; his beloved wife was killed by HWMNBN'd or his 
henchmen, or that he is still married, but his beloved wife now 
languishes in St. Mungo's hospital, unable to recognize him, just as 
the Longbottoms are unable to recognize Neville.

I confess, I read an interview with the producer of the HP movie, who 
said that there was something he wanted to do in the movie, but JKR 
said he couldn't do it, for reasons that would become clear in a 
later book.

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Following the recent tragedy, there were several references in the 
press to a remark reputedly made by Admiral Yamamoto following Pearl 
Harbor:  that he feared he had awakened and enraged a sleeping 
giant.  I couldn't help being reminded of Hogwart's motto:  Draco 
Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus, "Never tickle a sleeping dragon", and 
the early American revolutionary battle flag, with the words "don't 
tread on me" and an image of a rattlesnake.