Snape and Lily and Florence and Ginny and . . .

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 80810

Kate:
>Hi!  New to the group, but this debate made me think of a few 
things I'd written down after reading OOP... see what you think...<

KathyK:
Hi Kate, It's an interesting story, but I'm afraid I'm going to have 
to correct you on a few things.  *KathyK carefully avoids looking at 
the clock telling her it's almost time for work*

Kate:
<snip>
>Snape tells Voldemort what he had heard, suggesting that even 
though the Longbottom's child may be the one
he feels Potter is
the 
real foe.  The Dark Lord sends the LeStrange's to the Longbottom's 
to kill the child.  Neville, who has been hidden away, watches in 
horror as his parents are tortured until they are driven mad.<

KathyK:
Crouch Jr. and the Lestranges torture the Longbottoms into insanity 
AFTER Voldemort's AK curse backfires on Harry.  They do it because 
they think the Longbottoms have information on Voldemort's 
whereabouts.  Read GoF Chapter 30 (p 603 of the US paperback ed.)

Kate:
>Realizing what he has done and that Lily may pay the price for his 
vengeance on her husband, Snape goes to Dumbledore, swearing his 
allegiance if only he can stop what is to come.  
<snip> 
Snape is devastated, and his hatred of Voldemort is so deep, so 
dark, that he vows to help Dumbledore to rid the world of the Dark 
Lord.  But the Dark Lord is nowhere to be found.< <snip>

KathyK:
According to Dumbledore in the same chapter in GoF, Snape changed 
sides before Voldemort fell.  He says Snape became a spy, something 
he could not do (except in rounding up leftover DEs) if Voldemort 
was already gone.  And I don't like Snape but I never doubted his 
role as a spy for Dumbledore the first time around.  

Kate:
<snip, snip>
>Unfortunately, Voldemort knew that his minion would be in trouble 
and Apparated just outside Hogwarts, guised as a dementor.  He had 
no problem getting into the school and pretending to suck the soul 
from Crouch.  <snip>
Voldemort is tired of failure.  He needs successes, so he plans 
carefully.  Barty will take over someone Harry cares for, once again 
using the Polyjuice Potion, and by the end of it all, Harry will 
either have to kill his friend, or be killed.<  

KathyK:
Well, I hope we've seen the end of Polyjuice potion because if it's 
used again for such a plot twist I think I'll just roll my eyes. 
That aside, if it were to happen, I don't see why Harry would have 
to kill this friend because It's not like the one using the 
Polyjuice Potion takes over the body of the person they become.  The 
user only looks like the other. 

KathyK