Harry's Betrayer: was: Harry's experiences

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No: HPFGUIDX 116293


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hogsheadbarmaid" <aletamay01 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.....

Antosha:

Depressing as this scenario is, it has a lot going for it....

I would add just one more twist, because it seems to me that Snape and Harry have to 
learn to trust each OTHER.

So let us imagine that Harry is hauled in by Petunia (nice if really despicable turn, that)  
and that one of the martini-sipping DEs is, in fact, none other than Secret Agent Severus. 
In the WW equivalent of James Bond's ever-present tuxedo, no doubt. 

When DD comes in, wand flaming, eyes twinkling, he gets Harry free. As the DEs and LV 
converge on DD, SS suddenly realizes he must help DD, which he tries to do. 

Harry, at this point, can cut and run (DD has made his last Yoda-esque remark), but he 
realizes that if he does, not only will DD's body be left to the nasties, but SS will most 
certainly die a horrible death, just when he has demonstrated the depth of his true loyalty. 
So Harry stays and helps, and together, he and Snape get DD's corpse (and Fawkes's 
fledgling, natch) out safely. Probably doing LV some really unpleasant damage.

And Snape and Harry are suddenly forced to treat each other as comrades, if not friends.

And SS, rather than expiating his life-debt to Clan Potter, is in even deeper.

Works for me as an End-of-HBP scenario. Since I firmly believe that Book 7 will be DD-
less.