Stopper in Death

[mclellyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 92439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, cora_dee <cora_dee at w...> wrote:
> Great group, great discussions! I'm very happy to have found you :)
> 
> But now here's a question I didn't see answered before:
> 
> You all know Snape's Speech about the art of potion making. And you 
remember that line about "putting a stopper in death". 
> 
> Well ... let's play! If that's the special ability potion making 
offers to a master - whose death is Snape going to stopper? 
> 
> Harry? Dumbledore? Voldemort? Sirius? Anyone else's? 
> 
> Wondering,
> C.

Gadfly McLellyn writes:

see my post 79500 on Sept 1st, 2003 also, but here is a brief version:

The reason why Dumbledore trusts Snape and Snape hates Harry is that 
Snape brewed up some way for the AK curse to fail when it hit Harry, 
but Harry gets all the credit and fame for this.  So maybe Snape 
already did stopper death - Harry's death by Voldemort.  It explains 
why Dumbledore trusts him so much, and why Snape resents Harry's fame 
because it should be Snape's fame.  But Snape can't let the DE's know 
this because then he would be number one target for the DE's to 
murder.  

What do you think?

Gadfly McLellyn