Snape-As-Dementor Theory/ Kissing Harry

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 34001

Eloise wrote:


> I love your theory, Cindy, but I don't get this dementors and water 
thing. I 
> mean, why would you need that terribly difficult to perform 
Patronus spell, 
> when all you'd need is to conjure a bucket of water or a nice rain 
cloud  
> (and in fact IIRC they invaded the Quidditch pitch in the rain) - 
or perhaps 
> their cloaks are impermeable.
> 


Oh, but conjuring water (real water, not magical water) is just way, 
way too difficult.  It's even harder than conjuring a Patronus.  
Besides, as we all know, dementors always carry umbrellas.  ;-)


Eloise wrote (about Snape not giving Black to the dementors):


> I thought this was exactly what he intended to do:
 

OK, back to a serious discussion of canon.

During one of my anti-Snape rants, someone (pigwidgeon?) kindly 
informed me that Snape had every opportunity to turn Black over to 
the dementors in PoA.  Snape wakes up, finds Black, conjures a 
stretcher and takes Black . . . to the castle, not to the dementors.  
Snape could have taken Black to the dementors (or called the 
dementors).  This, according to the pro-Snape crowd, means Snape is 
not pure evil incarnate.

I try to shrug off that argument by saying that Snape didn't call the 
dementors because he knows dementors feed off of emotion, and they 
won't attack an unconscious person who isn't giving off emotions.  
Aside from the fact that I have to veer wildly away from canon to say 
that, nothing prevents Snape from reviving Black (or just waiting 
until Black woke up).  

Then I bob and weave and say things like Snape took Black back to the 
castle because he didn't have the magical strength to balance four 
stretchers while he hiked all over the grounds looking for 
dementors.  This has the advantage of making Snape look magically 
impotent, but again, it enjoys no support in canon.

So I am left with the idea that Snape showed mercy on Black because 
Dumbledore would have wanted him to. ::hangs head in defeat::

Eloise again:

> Which leads me to another puzzle: 
> 
> How did Fudge know that the Dementor had tried to kiss Harry? 

Fudge clearly can communicate with the dementors.  So Fudge had a 
conversation with the Chief Dementor, who ratted out the junior 
dementor who tried to kiss Fudge.  The junior dementor has probably 
been busted down in rank and is a crossing guard or something.

> Eloise, who until proved wrong, prefers to go on believing that 
Snape is All 
> Wizard!
> 


Cindy (who thinks Snape probably is All Wizard, but is working on a 
theory that Snape is part Lethifold)