Snaplogy

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57975

Michelle wrote:

 
> Rambling ahead :
> 
> 1. Snape might be the best potions master alive in the WW. He can 
brew one of the most tricky potions the Wolfsbanepotion. He's not 
especially good in teaching, IMHO he is more of a research type. His 
ability with potions might also be the reason why such a young man 
was so high in the DE ranks. As we saw in GoF, it's a potion which 
brings Voldemort back to life. The elixir of live gained from the 
Philosopher Stone is also a potion. This brings me to assuming that 
potions are important in Voldemort's quest for immortality. Snape 
must have been researching to find an equivalently powerful potion 
replacing the elixir of life. 

Reasonable. V-Mort would obviously want someone like that around. 
Snape certainly fits the bill. 


> 2. There must have been an important event that made him change his 
mind. I don't want to put out theories , build new ships or take a 
ticket for any of the existing ships. So please insert your own 
theory here LOL.
> 

Mine? Snape was asked to do something, or overheard something, that 
made him change his ways. Don't know what yet, but my money is on he 
was ordered to do something he couldn't do.

> I assume that he was the spy who tipped Dumbledore that Voldemort 
wanted to kill the Potters.

Again, reasonable. An assumption, but one that fits. 


> 3. Snape has made a discovery, not elixir of live, but a potion 
that can protect you against AK. I presume it as an unguent you have 
to put on the skin, like moisturing cream. The problem with it was 
that he couldn't produce enough of it to protect all the Potters. The 
Potters decided to use it on Harry to save him at least. 

Hmmm.... Ok, working with it.


> I think we know 2 of the major ingredients for the potion already 
<Giggles , laughs herself silly>: 
> 
> a. greasy black hair
> 
> b. a bit of very filthy used dental floss


OK, now you're just being goofy. ;)  BUT... what if wormswood and 
whatever else Snape was taunting Harry with was involved? Snape's own 
private joke.

> 4. Dumbledore knows that it was Snape and Snape alone who saved 
Harry. He demands Snape to keep the potion quiet, he doesn't want 
anyone to know it could be made. In the same thoughts he urges Snape 
to stop to much grooming, so that there would always be enough 
ingredients on hand <g>. 

Well, we know he was greasy-haired from his first year at Hogwarts, 
from Sirius' description, so maybe not too much ordering or urging 
was needed.


> 5. Harry gets all the credits for Snape's work ...
> 
> Snape feels bad, he just want's a good shower all the time. He sees 
that everybody is fussing about Harry and no one is paying attention 
to him ...
> 
> Poor old scruffy scientist, getting bitter and all.


OK, I have to say I don't agree, and not because I knock down old 
Snapey whenever I can. :) Well, not just because.

To me, the most pivotal event of the series is Lily sacrificing 
herself for Harry. Dumbledore has told Harry that is what saved him, 
in the speech at the end of PS/SS, and remember, that is the speech 
where he told Harry he wouldn't lie, might not tell everything, but 
wouldn't lie. 

So for this to work, D-Dore's a liar, even after he said he wouldn't 
lie. Possible, but still hard to swallow.

Also, one would think that the whole life debt thing between Snape 
and James would pretty much go bye-bye if Snape really rubbed some 
lotion on Harry's butt and saved his life, wouldn't it?

This theme of a mother's love, a Muggle-born mother's love, saving 
Harry is through the books. V-Mort has to essentially steal that 
protection by stealing Harry's blood to counteract it.

More importantly, I find myself resisting the idea that Lily's 
sacrifice was aided by a potion, or a cream, or another spell. I have 
heard a theory, similar to yours, that Snape created a potion that 
Lily took to ensure the sacrifice would work. I resist that one too.

The sacrifice is the strongest action of love we have in the books. 
Literally, sacrificing herself so her son could become stronger. 

I don't want anyone, not Snape, not D-Dore, not James, not anyone, to 
be part of that.

But that is what I want, rather than what I can disprove. Your 
theory, for the most part, does have merit.

Darrin
-- Snape's Life-Saving Skin Cream. Boy, you just bet he's ready to 
patent that.