TBAY: Re: Mind-linked!Snape (answers to several posts)

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No: HPFGUIDX 116464


Pippin wanders down to the bay after a long absence.  She looks  
much the same as always, her eyes as ever hidden by dark 
glasses, except that her cape now has a large 'X' prominently 
embroidered on what appears to be a patch the size of a 
can(n)on ball.

 The bay, however, still bears little resemblance to the tranquil 
lagoon once frequented by merry shippers. In the aftermath of 
Hurricane Jo, it looks more like an overturned kettle of alphabet 
soup.  And on the horizon, a new cloud is forming, no bigger than 
a novelist's hand. 

Pippin sighs. The bay, she thinks, will never be what it was...but 
wait...what's this?

A few intrepid newcomers are trying to restore the place to a bit 
of its former glory.  Down at the docks, Neri and Faith are 
inspecting VASSAL, while Kneasy, somewhat hampered by the 
small, ugly child clamped to his leg, looks on with pretended 
disdain. Pippin looks the VASSAL vessel over, a flicker of interest 
glinting in her hidden eyes.

"Cool idea" says Pippin. "But too Snape-centered"

"Do you mean I should have centered it on Lupin?" Neri asks.

"Heavens, no!" says Pippin, laughing out loud. "I mean, you 
should have centered it on Harry."

"A useless brat," Kneasy grumbles.

"Possibly," says Pippin. "But have you noticed that all our Snape 
theories have something in common? They all suppose that LV 
has a relationship with Snape which parallels his relationship 
with Harry.

"Kneasy here, thinks  that LV destroyed Snape's family. Neri 
thinks that Snape has a mind-link with Voldemort similar to 
Harry's. And I think that just as Voldemort transferred some of his  
powers to Harry, Snape transferred some of his part-vampire 
characteristics to LV."

"Ah," said Neri. "That explains the 'X' you have embroidered on 
your cape."

"Exactly," says Pippin. "It stands for Ex-vampire!Snape."

Faith rolls her eyes.

"But," says Pippin turning to her earnestly, "It's the underlying 
principle that matters, don't you see? We're probably all wrong 
about the nature of the link--"

"Speak for yourself," grumbles Kneasy.

"But the important thing, " Pippin went on as if he had not 
spoken,"is that we all think it exists. People go maundering on 
about Dumbledore's lack of wisdom in arranging for Snape to be 
the Occlumency teacher, as if he couldn't tell straight off that it 
was a bad idea. Well, he knew sending Harry to live with the 
Dursleys would be a bad idea too, but he did it, because it was 
part of The Plan (tm). Suppose Harry working with Snape is part 
of The Plan (tm) too? 

"I mean, just as Snape didn't have to teach Harry Occlumency, 
there are other people at Hogwarts who could have taught him 
potions, Madam Pomfrey, for one. Dumbledore's got a reason for 
putting Harry through all this.  That stagey handshake between 
Snape and Sirius, the Sorting Hat's new song in OOP... there's 
got to be more behind that than Magical Brotherhood Week!  
There has to be  something Snape and Harry can do together, 
and *only* together, to reverse LV' s immortality. "

Faith interrupts. "Aren't you forgetting something? Lord 
Voldemort isn't immortal any more. "But I was willing to embrace 
mortal life again, before chasing immortal.  I set my sights 
lower..." (GoF ch 33)

Pippin grins. " That's what *he* thinks!" But Dumbledore studied 
with Flammel, he's got to know more about what it takes to 
achieve immortality than Voldie does. Voldemort's immortal 
*now* -- He just doesn't know it yet. That's why he survived the 
rebounded AK, that's why Dumbledore doesn't try to kill him...it all 
fits."

"Hmph!" says Faith, who believes in taking unreliable narrators 
at their word.

"In order for them to do this 'something' , whatever it is, Snape 
and Harry will have to truly trust one another--" Pippin begins.

"Ick!" says Kneasy.

"Console yourself," says Pippin. "There's nothing in my theory 
that says they have to like it <g.>"

Pippin