Why Snape is at Hogwarts WAS Re: A new thought! A new thought! Several!

[xp39c]

No: HPFGUIDX 41359

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "lizbot1981" <cureluv88 at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:

> >And what if a willing sacrifice *can* be incorporated into
> > a strong protective spell, and what if Dumbledore and Snape *are* 
> working on
> > that.....? And what if Snape's task is to seem to betray 
> Dumbledore, whose
> > own willing death will be a component in Voldemort's defeat? This 
> is fun.
> 
> Yes, wow.  I could totally buy all that.  I can't think of any 
flaws, 
> but of course, I never do right away, and look like an idiot when 
> everyone else points out something obvious.  But I think this is an 
> extremely interesting theory.  Even if the details aren't right, I 
> think that there's really something to the basic idea you have.
> 
> Lizbot

It is possible that Dumbledore was working on this potion, but very 
unlikely that Snape was involved.  At the time, before Voldemort's 
downfall, most people still thought Snape a Death Eater, as evidenced 
by the fact that Karkaroff had no idea that Snape had switched sides 
months after.  Snape would definitely not be working at Hogwarts at 
the time.  It is most likely that Snape got the job after 
Voldermort's fall.

Even if I'm mistaken on this and that Snape had switched sides 
publicly before, it would only be a few months before (Voldermort 
would presumably have had him killed if he had known).  A few months 
doesn't seem to be a long enough time period for the two to invent 
this miracle spell.  They couldn't be working on it together before 
Snape's public turn, because Dumbledore was at Hogwarts ten months a 
year, where Snape couldn't be, and if they were together all the time 
the other two months, even in secret, people would have been 
suspicious.

Now as for the spell itself, a more probable partner to Dumbledore 
would be Flamel.  We know he's an expert with magic chemicals, and 
it's not as if he had anything else to do.

--Hei Lun