Who was with Voldemort at GH? /quick PoA question./Real child abuse

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Jen:
A bigger deal would be if someone 
> was with Voldemort that night, a question JKR refuses to answer.
> Snape would be the biggest surprise<snip for details> The only 
problem is Snape was already on DD's side by then and would 
> have tried to warn Dumbledore, unless Voldemort surprised him with 
> the trip to GH. <snip>


Alla:

Jen, I think that Snape IS a best candidate to be at Godric Hollow, 
simply because the BANG will be even bigger and IMO you can never 
have enough hate built up between Harry and Snape. I don't see Snape 
being there as a problem either for the reason you described IF He 
is DD! Man OR that he never truly wanted to warn the Potters and 
longed to be there IF he is truly Voldemort second in command and 
maybe he just wanted to see Voldemort fulfilling his promise and 
giving him Lily as a prize. Ewwwww.


 Jen:
> Who else would be a WOW, though? Peter or Lucius wouldn't be a big 
> surprise. <snip>I get the feeling we will be surprised by who was 
> there because JKR has kept it so secretive. Another traitor, then? 

Alla:

I agree, NOBODY will have such an effect, BUT Snape IMO and as you 
said we know it is important. That is the same reason why I was sure 
that Snape was an eavesdropper - made no sense to introduce somebody 
else and Snape would be BANGy.

> 
> CH3ed:
> > But I agree with Jen that Albus and Aberforth Dumbeldore might be
> > Gryffindor's heirs.
> 
> Jen: Cool!
>

Alla:

Heeeee. Me too, me too and don't forget that JKR said that Fawkes is 
Albus' possession, not Hogwarts. 


Alla:

I am rereading PoA now and have a small question. When Harry buys 
books for the school year, the one which he buys for Divination is 
called "Unfogging the future" by Cassandra Vablatsky - PoA, p.53, 
hardcover, am.edition.

Trelawney's ancestor name is Cassandra. Is it the same Cassandra? 
Does it mean that Trelawney IS able to teach her students something 
at least, since she knows which books to select? Maybe the real Seer 
will emerge from the students in book 7?



Miles:
> You may be right with your basic assumption that Snape is an 
abuser, though
> I personally doubt it - IMO he is not. 

Alla:

Oh, I do think that Snape has all the skills to be physical abuser 
and showed it off quite nicely couple of times too. So, I don't 
think that he is just an emotional abuser. It is just something that 
he is especially good at, IMO, but he has all the potential in the 
world to be good at physical abuse too, IMO. I think he learned well 
from his days with Voldie.


Miles:
But the term "emotional abuse" - no.

Alla:

You say no, I say yes. Unless you could show to me that your word 
has more value than mine, I will keep thinking that our opinions are 
of equal validity. Sorry about that.

JMO,

Alla.