Snape, DD, and Book 7

[dave1x2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 137281

I am a new poster to this board, but have been enjoying all of your 
posts for some time now.  I just thought I'd throw my 2 cents into 
the void on some issues.

Someone in some post recently said that the books are much more 
stratightforward than many here seem to think.  I tend to agree.  
While the speculation about who is bad, who is good, and what the 
Book 7 twists might be are very creative and a lot of fun, I tend to 
think that many of them are pretty far-fetched.  

I'm mostly referring to good vs. evil.  In a story like this, 
(especially in a "children's" book) the good guys always win.  Also, 
Rowling has such love for her characters, I think it's pretty clear 
that the ones she has spent so long writing as good, will stay good.  

Having said that, there is no way I see Harry dying.  It's possible 
he will have to sacrifice everything for the good side, but good will 
triumph in the end.  And I believe he will get the girl in the end.  
He and Ginny's "break up" was written in a way that it's obvious they 
still like each other and will be together when Harry's duty is 
complete.  Ginny has been written as the perfect mate for Harry, in 
this case completely understanding about his having to go.  Rowling 
seems to be setting up a reuinion.

About Snape.  Obviously, Rowling has written Snape in a way that 
could make him either good or evil.  I think that has been done 
brilliantly, and makes for great conversations.  Honestly, I wouldn't 
be completely surprised if it turned out either way.  But I think 
he's good, and here's why:  Right now, he looks completely evil.  If 
Rowling was going to go out of her way to make his allegiance 
ambiguous, it seems to be setting it up for a twist.  A twist at this 
point would be to bring him back to the good side.  

I know there is the important line about DD making big mistakes, but 
I just don't see him being wrong about this.  He has said too many 
times that he trusts Snape completely, and we still haven't found out 
why.  I bet we will in Book 7, and it will all make sense then.  
Plus, DD is sort of a god figure in the books, nearly omniscient and 
omnipotent.  I can't see him telling Harry (and Rowling telling the 
reader) to trust him so much, to find out he is wrong in the end.  
Again, good is usually good here.

I think Dumbledore knew he (might?) have to sacrifice his life, and 
brought Snape in on his plan.  That was what the argument Hagrid 
overheard was about, and that was what the "Please" was about at the 
end.  I think the good side needed an "in" with Voldemort, and Snape 
is it. 

Which leads to DD's death.  He is dead.  I can't see Rowling asking 
the reader to invest so much emotionally into his passing and then 
pulling the rug out with a "clever disguise" or something.  Like Obi 
Wan in Star Wars or Gandalf in LOTR, the wise old sage has to 
sacrifice himself, and the hero continue on to triumph.  But like Obi 
Wan and Gandalf, he will have a way to come back and communicate.  
Obviously, there are many ways we've seen the dead talk to the 
living, so that will happen again.  But he is dead.  

So that's my take on the big things.  I was surprised about the RAB 
thing.  I thought that was a strange and rather large twist to throw 
in this late in the game.  If it took the greatest wizard ever 
and "the chosen one" to get the locket, and they almost died doing 
it, how did some random DE get in, grab the locket and leave a clever 
note?  He must be incredibly powerful.  He probably won't be, and 
that will just be another minor plot inconsistency, but it seems odd.

I think Book 7 will be very action packed.  There was so much 
exposition in 6 that now we can hit the ground running in 7 and start 
burning Horcruxes.  

Oh yeah, horcruxes.  I think Harry is one.  It makes a lot of sense 
with the whole running thread of Harry and Voldy being conjoined, and 
the lack of detail surrounding his mother's death.  The way we are 
left, with the question about "what is the remaining horcrux?" leaves 
that door wide open.  It would be a great twist, and make for a great 
final standoff.  I kind of see the ending being like the end of Fight 
Club, where Ed Norton had to make the complete sacrifice of his own 
life to get rid of Brad Pitt inside of him.  He lived, though, and so 
will Harry.  

Other predictions:  Draco will be redeemed, but will never be friends 
with Harry, kind of like Snape has been.  Percy will be redeemed, 
coming back to the family.  Ron and Hermione will be together in the 
end (tough one, I know).  But it will take until the very end, the 
battle being the primary importance of the book.  Sirius will make a 
return, not from death, but to speak to Harry somehow.  Aunt Petunia 
will do magic somehow, as has been hinted at by Rowling.  

Later. 


Dave.