Snape/Familial relations/Malfoys

[Rachel]

No: HPFGUIDX 132938

Ok, I have a whole bunch of HP related thoughts going around in my 
head and I figure this is just the safest place ot get it out.  If 
you have read it already, great.  IF not, do not say I have not 
warned you at least a couple of times here.

Right off the bat, TOO MUCH SNOGGING!!!  Ron and his love life just 
got annoying.  Fast.  


Snape is obviously the most pressing question of the hour.  What in 
the world is going on with him?  I still think that if DD trusted him 
there had to be a VERY good reason (much more so than 
merely "believing" in him). Is it possible that perhaps he was under 
orders from DD that were even more difficult to follow that night 
than were Harry's? Maybe his mission was to kill DD so that he could 
continue to act on some secret plan that he and DD already had in the 
works?  Something so secret that not even the order members knew?  We 
know Snape to be an incredibly accomplished legelimens, but we do not 
know anything about anyone else in the order.  PErhaps revealing the 
plan to any of them ran the risk of having the plan exposed if they 
are captured.  This being the case he is just in such deep cover that 
NOT killing DD would have left LV free to take over the wizarding 
world.  (By the way, this ignores the "He is not really dead 
theories" which I think are nonsense).

I guess part of me just refuses that DD could have been wrong about 
Snape! 

On top of this, I have to wonder if perhaps there is an "unbreakable 
vow" between DD and Snape that either 1) he has joined the good guys 
(meaning it must have been truth or Snape would have died if he broke 
the vow.  The other option might be that there is a vow just for the 
particular event "Should the need ever arise, I will kill you in 
order to keep the Death Eaters believing that I am one of them."
Ok, before I get into my next point, did DD ever say he did not 
create a Horcruxe? I mean seriously, he said it was serious and all 
that, but perhaps he created one? Could there be a piece of DD in 
Fawkes, or in the sword? We saw him say the one relic from Grifindore 
was safe... meybe he knew that becusae he himself had used it? Can 
one item be a horcue for more than one person? 

I was just flipping through, and I notice that in Hogsmead, wheere DD 
is near death, it is Snape that he wants. Perhaps he wants more than 
just a "potions/dada master", what if Snape is (or has) dd's 
horcruxe? Maybe being reunited with it would have given dd extra 
stregth or a piece of information he was missing. Or even, what if it 
was the opposite! What if DD has a piece of snapes soul?  We never 
did find out how a horcruxe is reunited with the rest of its soul or 
destroyed. Perhaps one needs to destroy the vessle in which it is 
contained. It might also be how DD knows he can trust Snape, but that 
area needs more thought.

Also a question.  We know that a horcruxe can be an object or a 
person right?  So why must a person kill to create one?  Is it 
possible that DD knows that he has not used various objects (ie, GG 
sword, or the sorting hat [which for some reaon I believe belonged to 
one of the founders, but I can not lay my hands on a quote at this 
moment]) because he has already used it?  Do we think that Harry 
might be one of them?  We know he transfered his powers, why not his 
soul?

Ok, away from Snape and DD as the whole area is going to take a whole 
lot more thought. 

JK Rowling said in an earlier interview that at some point we would 
discover why she is keeping us in the dark about the teacher's 
families. I believe their has to be more to this than we have seen. 
My orriginal thought is that there was more between MM and DD.  
Something the reader was not seeing... it seemed that their 
relationship was much closer than the others on staff.  However, did 
it strike anyone else as odd that JKR took the time to point out to 
us that Poppy was wearing a knee length black veil (in my mind of the 
sort usually reserved for widdows)? it probably means nothing, but I 
thought I would see what other people think. 

And now a note on Malfoys.

Personally, I think Lucious joined the DE out of his love for power 
(and inbread feeling of supiriority) and of his own free will, but 
draco is different.  I think just wants those who he thinks are 
important (and who his upbring has taught him re important) to think 
he is important. I am not so sure I think he is evil.  I do think he 
can still redeem himself if he wanted to... however I somewhat lean 
towards the idea that he must be responsible for his own actions. He 
made his bed (albliet with the help pf some others), now he must 
sleep in it (together with a bunch of other people who wear 
bedsheets). 

Rachel