HBP The memory in the cave... is Snape's.

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 137942

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "merpsiren" <merpsiren at y...> 
wrote:
> I have really spent some time with the following theory and am 
ready
> to see what everyone else thinks...
> 
> > 
> Now, if you buy into my theory, and then read HBP pg. 571-572.  The
> basin in the cave is filled with the green poison and is described 
as
> looking like a pensieve.  I believe that the liquid that Dumbledore
> drinks is very much like a pensieve memory, it is Snape's worst
> memory.  The agonizing utterances from Dumbledore as he consumes 
this
> horrible poison I believe to be the actual memory of Snape at the 
time
> of his own family's murder. Read the passages with Snape as the
> speaker pleading with Voldemort to spare "them" for a horrible 
mistake
> that he (Snape) has made (not sharing the prophecy with 
Voldemort).  I
> read the beginning (the first things Dumbledore utters after 
drinking
> the poison) as Snape fighting off the legilimency from Voldemort 
as he
> enters Snapes mind and retrieves the info afout the 
prophecy , "don't
> like... want to stop... I don't want to... Let me go... make it 
stop,
> make it stop."   Followed by Snape pleading that his family be 
spared,
> "It's all my fault, all my fault... I know I did wrong, oh please 
make
> it stop and I'll never, never again... Don't hurt them... it's my
> fault, hurt me instead... Make it stop, make it stop, I want to 
die!"
> 
> Snape has lost everything.  I believe this is the reason Dumbledore
> implicitly believes and trusts Snape. Snape wants vengence as much 
as
> Harry does.    
> 
> Merprisen

Merprisen,

Okay, that's a cool theory.  It doesn't really hold with the canon, 
I don't think, because weren't we told that a Death Eater *went to* 
Voldemort and told him about the prophecy?  I'll suspend that 
notion, though, because I like the theory otherwise.

Let's fill in a few holes.  Why would Snape expect that Voldemort 
would come after his kid if he truly was on the DE's side?  Why did 
Voldemort then go after Harry?  Why would someone (Voldemort, RAB, 
whoever) fill up that basin with Snape's worst memory?

Allie