Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

[jjjjjuliep]

No: HPFGUIDX 137264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "esmith222002" <c.john at i...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jjjjjuliep" <jjjjjulie at a...> 
> wrote:

> >Also, IMO there is no canon for the "Snape is in love with 
> > Lily" theory.  
> 
> IMO there is a lot of evidence/canon for this.
> 
> 1. We know the SLug Club existed before & we know that Lily & Snape
> were two of Slughorn's favourite (or at least most talented 
> students.

Yes, but that doesn't contradict all of the other info we have were 
Snape appeared to despise Lily because of her parentage.

> 2. DD says that the Potter's deaths were the greatest regret of 
> Snape's life. Lupin finds it difficult to believe because Snape 
> hated James. If we believe both DD and Lupin, then that leads us 
> to the fact that the death of Lily is the greatest regret of 
> Snape's life (any other theories greatly accepted!!)

Snape tells DD this, but IMO it doesn't necessarily prove anything as 
we have no idea if Snape was telling Dumbledore the truth.  Plus we 
know, from DD's own comments about his judgment and from JKR's 
comments that DD makes "emotional" mistakes that DD has somewhere 
made a mistake.  For the record, I think it's trusting Snape.  IMO 
Snape is on one side:  his own.  He would have said anything to DD to 
get into Hogwarts and he's an accomplished enough wizard to possibly 
fool a soft-hearted person like DD.  Even if I weren't convinced of 
that, it's not logical, in the strictest sense of the word, to draw 
the conclusion that Snape loved Lily from those comments.

> 3. In her last interview, JKR stated that Lily's popularity was 
> hugely important! If we agree that Snape is also going to greatly 
> affect the outcome of the series, then it seems that the most 
> important people (other than HArry) wrt to the final confrontation 
> are Lily & Snape!

Again, IMO, this is extrapolation not tied to anything in the books 
or interviews.  That's fine, but that is not what I would consider to 
be a theory based on canon.  I understand that speculation is part of 
the process, but I take an entirely different tack toward it.  I 
understand that the mileage of others may vary. ;-)

> > Finding the Horcruxes?  Probably not.  But breaking the curses on 
> > them to destroy them?  That will take a fair bit of time IMO.
> 
> But it was interesting to see Bill described as a curse breaker in 
> HBP. Harry finds them - Bill destroys them! What do you think?

I think Bill will teach Harry how to recognize curses and what kinds 
of things to try to break them--a crash course in curse-breaking, but 
that Harry will do them himself (albeit with help from time to time).

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