Harry's Betrayer: was: Harry's experiences

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 116270


boyd:
> 
big snip

> So here's the likeliest scenario in my mind. Harry, fresh from a
> particularly gut-wrenching scene in the WW, where the latest vexing 
mystery
> has been solved (but not before something horrible nearly happened 
to Ron
> and/or Hermione), arrives back at Platform 9 3/4 utterly alone and
> exhausted. He gets in the car with Petunia and suddenly he realizes 
that
> there are still 52 pages left in the book! He tries to get away, 
but Petunia
> binds him with *her late sister's wand*, then tells him how she 
hates all
> you wizard freaks, and wishes the WW would keep to itself and away 
from her
> and her ickle Duddykins. And that's why she delivers Harry to a 
place full
> of DEs...and LV himself. She leaves as LV preaches fanatically to 
his DEs
> while they leisurely Crucio Harry, drink apple martinis, and 
discuss the
> relative merits of autocracies vs. theocracies. DD arrives and 
walks into
> the path of the Crucio, but as he writhes in pain still manages to 
say
> something inspirational yet unfathomable, such as "Harry, you have 
your
> mother's eyes" or "win one for the Gipper." And, of course, his 
eyes gleam.
> Then Snape appears from nowhere, grabs Harry, and leaves with him 
just as LV
> AKs DD. AFAIK, QED, IMHO. (Um, sorry, got carried away with the 
acronyms.)
> 
> There, now DD is apparently dead and Harry must trust Snape at 
last. And the
> plot has finally moved forward that last step before the conclusion 
in book
> 7.



barmaid:

Oh this is sweet!  I LOL at the DE's sipping apple martinis -- hum it 
is a little early in the day but that apple martini mix in the 
cupboard is calling to me right now for some reason! 

I think this is a great theory.  It may not be what happens in JKR's 
books, but if not you should write your own.

I am completely in the camp of somehow Snape and Harry are forced to 
bond in some moment like the one you discribe.  They have to look 
each other in the eye at some point and realize that they *have* to 
trust each other.  I see this potential moment as somewhat redemptive 
for both of them -- by seeing that the other is trust *worthy* they 
are released from some or much of the baggage they both carry.....