Snape; Dumbledore Horcrux

[darqali]

No: HPFGUIDX 133237

Observations:

The discussion of Snape's 'real' character {Is he on the side of good 
or evil?} is interesting ..... one clue sticks in my mind:  When 
Harry {and we readers} first meet Snape, Harry's scar hurts! 

Remember?  It is during the start-of-term banquet {Sorcerer's Stone}; 
Harry looks up at the High Table, where the teachers are sitting; he 
does not yet know Snape's name or that he is head of Slythern House, 
nor anything about his father and Sirius' old emnity toward Snape:

"Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Dumbledore.  Professor 
Quirrell, in his absurd turban, was talking to a teacher with greasy 
black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin.  It happened suddenly.  
The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into 
Harry's eyes - and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's 
forehead. "cvx          

As far as I recall, that is the only time Harry's scar pains him 
which is NOT related to L.V.!

I grant you, Quirrell is there and thus so {presumably} is L.V. {who 
is possessing him, or living inside him}.  But it is Snape's catching 
Harry's eye, at this, their first meeting, that makes Harry's scar 
hurt!

This event seems {to me} to point at Snape being on the "evil" side; 
for what else accounts for Harry's scar hurting?

[According to Snape in HBP, at that time he believed L.V. "finished"; 
and he had fooled Dumbledore to keep a job at Hotgworts, as a 
preferable fate to being sent to Azkaban  as a Death Eater.  Still, 
according to Snape himself, his 'being reformed' was an act.]

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Also interesting is the speculation about Dumbledore:  Is he "really 
dead"?

The appearance of his new portrait in the Headmaster's Office says, 
"yes".

Also:  Could Dumbledore have created a Horcrux?

I agree that there may be some plot twist that Dumbledore 'comes 
back', but I don't see how he could have a Horcrux.

Remeber the desceiption of how one is made, and that 'death is 
preferable' to tearing the soul into bits; to create a Horcrux, we 
are told, the wizard must commit murder.  I do not see Dumbledore as 
a murderer, so he cannot have created a Horcrux, if that is the way 
it must be done.

Dumbledore did not fear death; and would not mutilate his own soul by 
murder to enable himself to cheat death as L.V. has done.


Darqali