[HPforGrownups] Back to the cave and Dumbledore's screams

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 137547

vmonte wrote:
> vmonte:
> I just reread this scene again. What exactly did this potion do to
> Dumbledore? Is he reliving something or repeating someone else's
> words?

> Is this Snape's confession regarding the Potter's? or is this
> unrelated to Snape?

> Vivian 

Kathy writes:
     I have posted on this previously.  I believe that, as Snape had to 
go back to Voldemort in the interests of the Order, Dumbledore took 
Snape's memories that could not be seen by Voldemort and stored them in 
his own head.
> The Cave:
> 
> "I don't want...Don't make me..."
> 
> "...don't like...want to stop..."

Snape being forced into the Death Eaters by his mother's family???


> "No..."
> 
> "I don't want to...I don't want to...Let me go..."
> 
> "Make it stop, make it stop..."
> 
> "No, no, no, no, I can't, don't make me, I don't want to..."

Snape taking the Dark Mark against his will????
> 
> "It's all my fault, all my fault...Please make it stop, I know I did
> wrong, oh please make it stop and I'll never, never again..."

Snape finding out Voldemort's plans to use the prophesy information????
> 
> "Don't hurt them, don't hurt them, please, please, it's my fault,
> hurt me instead..."

Snape at Godric's Hollow???
> 
> Please, please, please, no...not that, not that, I'll do anything..."

Snape's memory of Lily's last words???
> 
> "No more, please, no more..."

Snape being sent back to spy by Dumbledore on Voldemort's rise???
> 
> Dumbledore is now screaming:
> 
> "I want to die! I want to die! Make it stop, make it stop, I want to
> die!"

Snape's response to being told that when it comes he must be the one to 
kill Dumbledore???
> 
> "KILL ME!"

Snape's memory of Dumbledore's last command to him????


I think this fits suspiciously well and was what I thought from the 
first reading. I don't believe that Dumbledore has ever in his life done 
anything that would make these memories his and it would certainly 
explain why Dumbledore knew beyond a shadow of a doubt where Snape's 
loyalties lay.
KJ