Snape is Innocent!

[Shanoah Alkire]

No: HPFGUIDX 133344

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...>
wrote:
> And I can prove it...
> Dumbledore didn't die of an AK.
<snip> 
> I think Dumbledore had a plan to save himself, though I
> am not sure it worked. A combination of phoenix tears,
> bezoar and perhaps one last vial of the Elixir of Life might
> have saved him, if he had time to take them on the way down.
> Time will tell.  I've taken the liberty of forming an
> acroynm: SAD DENIAL II. (Supposing Albus Dumbledore,
> Dire Events Negated, Is Actually Living, Is Irresistible.)
> 

Not sure about that combination, but here's a scenario for you: Albus
goes to find the locket horcrux, and finds that it has been replaced.
He then takes a supply of "Draught of living death" from Slug's potion
lessons (brewed in Ch. 9), and pours it in. Notice how he keeps nearly
falling asleep?

He then talks with Draco, and suggests faking Draco's death right in
front of Harry, hoping he'll get the hint or things to come. 

Then Snape comes in, yells "Avada Kedavra!", and then does silent
magic (which we know he is good at, also from Ch. 9) to make it appear
as if the killing curse has been cast.

Albus then falls off the tower and breaks his spine. Or not, as the
case may be. (Cushioning charm, anyone?) Then the Draught kicks in.

At the funeral, Snape uses polyjuice to attend as a little
tufty-haired man. He tosses a smoke bomb in at the appropriate moment,
Fawkes swoops in, grabbing Albus, vanishes in flame, and Snape
triggers the spells to complete the transfiguration into a tomb.

Or something like that. Of course, I came up with this idea before I
realised, due to a post on another forum, that Pettigrew has been
impersonating Dumbledore all year. This would be a redeemed Peter,
naturally.

---

"Did you find it useful?"
"Not really."
"No, I thought not. You have not asked me, for instance, what is my
favorite flavor of jam, to check that I am indeed Professor Dumbledore
and not an imposter."

---

I'm rereading, and haven't seen Dumbledore twinkle yet, and don't
recall him offering anyone lemon drops. He seems a bit OOC at times,
and seems, IMO, to act more like a marauder then the headmaster,
occassionally. 

Also, observe his words when drinking the potion:

"It's all my fault, my fault," he sobbed. "Please make it stop, I know
I did wrong, oh please make it stop and I'll never, never again..."

...

"Don't hurt them, don't hurt them, please, it's my fault, hurt me
instead..."

These seem very much like things Peter would say...

I'm still trying to reconcile the theories, mind, and figure out if
there are any showstoppers. And I'm not sure how likely either is...

--Arcum