Ever so evil ? was Dumbledore's role in Sirius' death

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No: HPFGUIDX 99072

Pippin:
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also awaiting ESE!Harry

Neri:
Naahh, I was kidding. I'm not very interested in ESE theories, 
because it is usually obvious they'll just won't happen. I got 
interested for about a day in ESE!Harry only because it seemed more 
difficult to generate. You'd have to get over the point-of-view 
problem: as readers we get to look into Harry's mind all the time, so 
we know he is not evil. But then I realized this is actually easy. 
You see, Harry got not only some of LV's powers in that fateful night 
in GH, he also got some of LV's memories. So Harry actually always 
knew he is a wizard. All those years in the Dursleys' cupboard (the 
years from age 1 to 10 that JKR conveniently doesn't describe) he was 
thinking about how he's going to turn the Dursleys into toads, get 
even with DD and all the other wizards for dumping him with the worst 
muggles ever, and take over the WW like Tom always wanted and failed. 
But when Harry turns 10 years old, and already waiting impatiently 
for the letter from Hogwarts that he knows should arrive by the end 
of the year, he suddenly realizes he has a BIG problem: From Tom's 
memories he knows that DD always suspected Tom, even when all the 
others in Hogwarts thought Tom was a fine kid and a model student. 
Harry realizes that DD is a skillful legilimen, and is going to see 
through him, Harry, exactly as he saw through Tom, and find out that 
Harry is actually Ever So Evil.

So Harry uses the powers he got from LV to construct a fake 
personality. Very similar to Tom's diary, actually, only this 
personality is not written in a diary but stays inside Harry's head. 
This fake!Harry is a good, brave and noble kid, someone that DD will 
just adore, never bothering to look below the surface. And naturally, 
the fake!Harry is constructed without LV's memories of the WW, so its 
surprised response to everything "new" always look so genuine. Most 
of the time it is fake!Harry that interacts with the people around 
him according to his programming, but the true Harry, ESE!Harry, is 
always lurking just below the surface and watching, sometime making 
the necessary adjustments. Most of the time this works quite well, 
but there were some perilous moments, for example when the Sorting 
Hat looked inside his head and found that his house should be 
(naturally) Slytherin. Only repeating the command "Not Slytherin!" 
three times to the fake personality managed to convince the damn hat. 
Phew, that was close. But even worse were the Occlumency lessons with 
Snape. Snape was starting to get into Harry's early memories, from 
the years before the fake!Harry existed. Harry reprogrammed his fake 
personality to hate the lessons and avoid them as much as possible, 
but this still didn't help. Then he had an inspiration: he made the 
fake personality look into Snape's worst memory in the Pensieve and 
keep looking until Snape returned. Heh! No more Occlumency lessons 
after that...                  

But in Hogwarts Harry had learned that LV is still around (he had no 
way of knowing this before), and trying to kill him. So he had to 
form a new plan: he's going to play DD and LV against each other, 
both wasting their powers and supporters in the war between them. 
According to his plan, one of these two should kill the other, but 
only after a lengthy war and a tough fight, so that the one left 
standing will be very weak and Harry will be able to finish him off 
easily. Until OotP Harry wasn't sure if it's DD or LV who should die 
first. But now he has finally managed to make DD reveal to him the 
second part of the prophecy (the part that he didn't already know 
about from LV's memories). Now the plan is obvious: he should let LV 
get rid of DD for him, then kill LV according to the prophecy. After 
that Harry will be the hero of the WW. His way to power will be open, 
and he will be able to terminate that annoying fake personality, 
which starts to really getting on his nerves with its noble conduct.

OK, this is the point were I start to get bored with this theory. 
Clearly it still requires a lot of work: going over the books looking 
for pieces of canon that happen to fit nicely with it (and writing 
excited posts about them to HPFG), and explaining away those parts of 
canon that don't fit. Tedious and dull, IMO. Anyone who is interested 
is invited to it. I'll be probably thinking on something REALLY 
interesting, like what's going on with those bubblegum wrappers that 
Neville gets from his mother, or who kissed Florence behind the 
greenhouses, or what is the power behind the locked door, or why does 
DD trusts Snape.

Neri