"It wuz Snape"

[Ian Malone]

No: HPFGUIDX 42221

>Yup, 'it wuz Snape'.
>
>Pip
>Squeak!

I have to say, 'It wuz Snape' is one of the best formulated theories I have 
heard in a long time. It makes complete sense with the series. I was blown 
away when all the points seemed to tie together neatly. I am completely 
ready to embrace this theory.

HOWEVER;

A. Why did the Potter's house collapse? It has been established that AK 
cannot blow a house to pieces.

However, at the end of GoF, as Harry is fleeing from the Death Eaters and 
Voldemort in the Graveyard, one of them casts a spell on him (sorry, don't 
have the books in front of me, no chapter and page) and he dives behind a 
grave-stone for cover. The grave-stone cracks as the spell hits it.

Could this mean that certain spells can do physical damage to property? 
Since Snape is an expert dueller, maybe he went all out on Voldemort, and in 
turn Voldemort went all out on him, bringing the house down to a pile of 
rubble.

But in that event, it would had to have happened AFTER Voldemort AK'd Harry, 
but he would be in no state to cast spells. It couldn't have happened 
BEFORE, because wizard or not, Harry wouldn't have survived a house 
collapsing on him.

This leaves me saying, hmmm...

B. Where did Snape go and what did Snape do that night they "parted ways" in 
GoF?

Dumbledore says Snape knows what must be done, and Snape agrees, then he 
leaves in a huff. Many people assume he went back to Voldemort's side to 
start his two-faced spy business again, but this wouldn't make sense with 
'It wuz Snape'.

So, what would Snape have done that night?

C. After Hagrid discovered Snape in the rubble, what happened to Snape? He 
just lost a duel to Voldemort, and had a house fall down on him, certainly 
he would be in no fine mood to get up a go on his own.

It is also fairly safe to assume that Snape would have to be gone by the 
time Sirius arrived, because if Sirius saw Snape at the Potter's house, he 
would have gone ballistic. So Snape left sometime after Hagrid arrived and 
before Sirius arrived.

So where did he go, and how did he get away so quickly? The Night-Bus? I am 
assuming that Sanpe was too weak to apparate, but maybe it's just a simple 
answer. He apparated back to Hogwarts to report to Dumbledore.

D. Why does Snape hate Harry?

Snape favours the Slytheryns (which is mroe than any other Head of House can 
say, but that's another matter entirely) and so he therefore treats the 
other students less, but it doesn't explain his "hatred" of Harry.

If he saved Harry's life, why does he go out of his way to make it so 
miserable?

If your retort is that, "well, it's because Harry's father was such a jerk 
to him", then why did Snape go out of his way to save the Potters that 
night? Or was he doing it for Lily?

This could put a sinister spin on things... maybe Snape arrived just in time 
to help James, but did nothing and watching him die. He chose not to save 
James and instead used the distraction to sneak inside and save Lily and 
baby Harry.

Hmmm... heroic, but at the same time vile. What a conflict!!

E. My brain hurts, we are done for this evening.

>Cooper



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