OOP: Parallels between H/W & J/S relationships, possibly predicting something?

RSFJenny19 at aol.com RSFJenny19 at aol.com
Sat Jun 28 23:57:05 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 65532

Spoilers included in this.

Something struck me as I went back to refer to a passage in POA today, the 
striking similarities between Harry's relationship with Wormtail and James' 
relationship with Snape, and how it may be predicting the end of book 7.

Consider this:  

Harry stopped Sirius and Lupin from killing Wormtail because he reckoned his 
dad didn't want them to become murderers because of Wormtail.
James saved Snape's life (the Prank), and if he'd been killed (by the 
werewolf Lupin), both Sirius and Lupin would've been, in effect, murderers. He saved 
Snape, IMO, not out of liking (obvioiusly), but because he didn't want his 
friends to become murderers because of Snape.


So Snape was in James' debt and Wormtail is now in Harry's.

Next, I have to add into here my belief/theory that it was Snape who 
overheard Trelawney's prophecy and told Voldemort but then switched sides in an 
attempt to save James' life when he realized later on that the prophecy was possibly 
about James' son.

Dumbledore told Harry in POA that when one wizard saves another wizard's 
life, it creates a certain bond between them and that the time may come when he'll 
be glad he saved Wormtail.

Could it be...would Wormtail switch sides again, at great risk to his own 
life (starting to get a familiar ring??), in order to save Harry?

I now think that not only will this happen in book 7, but after it does, 
Dumbledore will tell Harry about how it was Snape who was essentially responsible 
for his parent's deaths even though he attempted to save James by warning 
Dumbledore. Which will leave us hating Snape at the end, which rings with what 
JKR's been cautioning in regards to Snape.

Sorry if this is already out there, but I'd never noticed the parallel until 
I started suspecting Snape switched sides to save James.

~Jenny




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