Snape and the Potters

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No: HPFGUIDX 47145

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "aja_1991" <aja_1991 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Carol Bainbridge <kaityf at j...> wrote:
> 
> 
> You've suggested that the male voice Harry heard urging Lily to 
take 
> Harry and run was not James, and suggested that voice was either 
> Lupin, Snape, or Lucius Malfoy.  
> 
> My concern with this theory:  Harry has met all three of these men, 
> and has spoken to them.  He knows what their voices sound like.  
> Wouldn't he by now be able to connect the voice in the flashback to 
> one of them?  Yes, I recognize that voices can "age," but all three 
> were grown men at the time of the Potters' deaths, and I don't 
think 
> the ensuing 12-14 years of time would change their voices 
> dramatically enough that Harry couldn't recognize them.  
at the mystery...

Ah, the fly in the ointment.

Some possible theories...far reaching but here you go. Harry was not 
in full control of his faculties when he heard these voices. He also 
WANTED to hear his father. He convinced HIMSELF that he heard his 
father. Would he recognize his father's real voice?
Snape: Harry usually hears Snape's voice in a quiet, "silky" tone, OR 
in a spitting tantrum. This was neither. Also, he would have NO 
REASON AT ALL to even attempt to try to place Snape in the scene in 
his head so any "hint of familiarity" he noticed in the voice he 
could have easily attributed to his fuzzy memory of Daddy. Again, 
would he recognize his father's voice? 
I could say the same about Malfoy but as I have no reason to believe 
Lucius Malfoy would be warning anyone about the approach of LV. I 
don't think Lupin figures into the Godric's Hollow scene at all. He 
MAY have been present at (the possible) earlier killing of James.

Melpomene