what is "the heart of it all"?

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 77417

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sebfish5" <redfish5 at o...> 
wrote:
> J.K.Rowling has said there is something which is the "heart of it 
> all" and that "none of the fans have guessed it yet, though they 
> have skirted around it" (Newsnight interview, before order of the 
> phoenix) she also said "she has laid all her clues" in a sense 
there 
> will still be more but she has laid plenty.
>  okay so 
> 1) What do you think this heart is, if you are that much of a god
>      but, more likely
> 2) What, or who, do you think this "heart" revolves around?
> 
>  I think it has to be something to do with Snape, and his 
> relationship with Lily and James, and his current job. Although he 
> specifically states that his job is to spy on the Death Eaters. 
>  I'm not saying Snape is a bad guy, infact, I think he is a good 
> guy, but I think he is the centre of everything.

Snape here:

I think it is why everthing seems to revolve around Harry, and I am 
not saying this because the books are about him.  Think about it for 
a moment...  Harry is always putting himself into various 
perdicaments because he cares enough to risk his life for others.  
He did it in PS/SS, because there was noone else around to stop LV 
from getting the stone and coming back to destroy everyone.  In COS, 
it is Ginny he has to rescue, he just met this girl a year before 
and he goes off to fight an enormous snake for her?  In POA, he 
cares enough to spare wormtails life, give Sirius the benefit of the 
doubt and except him as family even though he thought him a murderer 
just moments before.  In GOF he has a hard time leaving all the 
others stranded at the bottom of the lake, and has serious issues in 
dealing with Cedrick's death.  In OotP, Harry lets his emotions rule 
him and this makes him very dangerous to himself and others around 
him, as we saw at the end.  His emotional out break over Serius is 
what caused Serius to be at the DOM in the first place.  LV plays 
Harry emotions well through each book.  But... As DD says, Harry's 
strongest attribute is his love that he has from him mother.  This 
also pertains to my post about Harry's glasses.  The heart of the 
matter is the heart.

Severus "geez, that was glurgy" Snape