[HPforGrownups] Re: AK Stealing Souls; James' Life Debt To Snape?

[Laura Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 35776

CINDY SAID:
>You know, this whole AK things sounds like a bit of a scam to me.  
>If AK is unblockable, then DEs are at risk just as innocent victims 
>are.  Indeed, I can imagine James hiding behind a door and hitting 
>Voldemort with AK in the back when Voldemort enters the house.  So 
>why were the DEs becoming so strong way back when if the Good Guys 
>could sneak up on them and AK them, too?

Well, under my theory...AK is REALLY, ***REALLY*** wrong.  Has anyone ever read the Secret Texts trilogy by Holly Lisle?  What I mean is something similar to what the Mirror of Souls does -- takes the soul/essence/spirit/whatever-you-want-to-call-it and convert it to raw power for the taker.  A decent person just doesn't do that.  It's not just killing someone, it's making them NOT BE at all.  Very very wrong. Bad. **slaps wrist** 


Cindy says some more:
<snipity snip snip>
>Which suggests that Harry won't die at the end of Book 7, because 
>Harry will kill Voldemort and receive all of the powers of all of 
>Voldemort's victims and will be immortal and invincible.

*sigh* if only...

And Cindy again:
>One more quickie thing.  In PoA, in the Shrieking Shack, Snape 
>explodes at Harry thusly:
>"Like father, like son, Potter!  I have just saved your neck; you 
>should be thanking me on bended knee!  You would have been well 
>served if he'd killed you!  You'd have died like your father, too 
>arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black."
>I hope this isn't a dumb question, but are we all agreed that this 
>means that Snape saved James Potter's life and Snape is miffed that 
>James never appreciated it?  Does it mean that Snape gave James 
>information that Black was a spy, but James disregarded it?  Am I 
>reading this wrong or something?

I seriously never considered this at all.  I always just assumed Snape believed that Sirius had betrayed the Potters, and always felt that James should have known better, since he's felt that Sirius is a cold blooded would-be murderer since the Prank.


However, Pippin said:
>What do you think I've been saying all along? This is the reason 
>Snape so vehemently refuses to consider the idea that Sirius 
>wasn't the spy. Because  if he *wasn't * the spy, then it could be 
>Snape's bad information that got James killed. See? 

Yeah, I actually really like this idea.  It fits in to the events in PoA like a puzzle piece.  However, canon does say that James switched secret keepers because Sirius said to, not Snape...

However...Snape wouldn't have known about this..He would have assumed that if James switched secret keeper it would have been because of *him*.  Hmmmmm...

laura




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