Another Theory was:Snape and Harry (Re:Snape Theory right here...)

[Annalisa Moretti]

No: HPFGUIDX 84798

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iris_ft" <iris_ft at y...> wrote:
Iris:

> I always found this scene very enigmatic. Why did Harry change into 
> Snape in Dumbledore's thoughts? Why does JKR associate their images 
> with gold?
> Should we understand that both Snape and Harry are precious to 
> Dumbledore; that Dumbledore loves Snape just the same way he loves 
> Harry? Maybe he sees them as his spiritual sons.
> Or should we consider that there's a strong tie between Snape and 
> Harry? Another time, the Pensieve shows the similitude. In OotP, it 
> appears that 15 years- old Snape was physically very similar to 
> Harry (they both look pinched and unhealthy; they both look sloppy; 
> they both are given rough times). Does Snape hate Harry because he 
> can recognize himself in the boy? 
> And finally, we mustn't forget that they both have a strong tie 
with 
> Voldemort, they both wear a physical mark he gave them. Voldemort, 
> formerly known as Tom Riddle. Another strange boy, with strange 
> ideas and a hard childhood. Dumbledore took interest in that boy 
too 
> when he was still at 
> 
Hogwarts.                                                            
> Dumbledore, Riddle/Voldemort, Snape, and then Harry. Do they 
compose 
> a lineage? Not being "a Snape's expert",I'd like to know if this 
has 
> been debated yet, and would be happy to read your comments.

Annalisa:

I actually have a theory percolating in my brain that's rather like 
this ... I was thinking of of posting it to TBAY (I even (almost) 
have an acronym for it!) but I've never posted to TBAY before so I 
was hesitant to do so. So I'll outline it here.

Similar to what you've said, I detect a very close relationship 
between Dumbledore and Snape, almost father/son-like; even when 
Dumbledore rebuffs Snape, or teases him - for one thing, Snape puts 
up with it, which is very unlike him, and for another, despite the 
fact that Dumbledore disagrees with Snape so many times, he still 
seems to be very fond of him.

Basically it's my theory that Snape and Dumbledore share a 
connection, as in a familial connection. That does not necessarily 
mean there is a blood link between the two of them -- though I don't 
rule that out -- but that Dumbledore knew Snape before he went to 
Hogwarts, when he was a little child, and might have been a friend of 
his family's. Specifically I think his mother's side of the family 
(because I for one DO believe that the memory Harry saw in the 
Pensieve was of Snape's parents, and not of Snape and his wife, for 
reasons I won't go into here, but will if anyone wants me to). 

I don't know if I have a can(n)on for this theory, but I think it's 
very likely. At the very least it's as likely as Mrs. Norris turning 
out to be the mysterious Florence ;)

Does anyone agree with me? Do you think this could survive in Theory 
Bay?

- Annalisa