[HPforGrownups] Re: My *One* Most Rock-Solid OoP Prediction

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 59936

Laura wrote:
> On to my prediction-
>
> I personally avidly support the idea that Snape was at the Potter's
> on the night Lily and James were killed, and I predict that this will
> be presented as fact in OOP.  The only real canon evidence I have to
> support this is the dream Harry has his first night as Hogwarts, in
> which he sees Snape's face along with Voldemort's laugh, leading me
> to believe that he has somehow connected them in his head.  So my
> prediction is that, during the course of telling everything (thinking
> about that passage is making me loose sleep, I swear...), Dumbledore
> will reveal that Snape was at the Potter's house on that infamous
> night, either trying to warn the Potters or reinforce some side or
> another of his double agent role.

My take on the Snape/Voldemort connection in this dream.  This dream
directly followed the Welcoming Feast at the beginning of the year.  During
that feast, Harry feels pains in his scar just when Snape shoots him his
famous look of pure hatred (for the first time, at that).  When this
happened to Harry, he didn't know Snape at all, and even had to ask Percy
who he was.  Harry is actually making a first impression of Snape, a very
unfavorable one.  Snape is that ugly-looking teacher who hates him for some
reason and sets his scar to hurting.  Harry has also been told that his scar
was caused by Voldemort.

Harry goes to sleep that night.  One interpretation I have had of that dream
is that it's not actually precognitive.  Dreams have a way of putting
together disjointed fragments of thoughts.  All of these things did bother
him, so they surface in dreams.  I don't feel like going through the dream
scene by scene (maybe I will tomorrow when I have more time and am more
awake), but one could argue that he associates Snape with Voldemort simply
because of his first impression of Snape.  On some level, he might even
already believe the pains in his scar came from Snape since Snape was the
one glaring at him.  Anyway, the main thrust of this post was to point out
another reason why Harry might have connected Snape with V's high, cold
laugh.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova