[HPforGrownups] HBP Theories

[Lynx412 at AOL.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 133449

In a message dated 7/19/2005 4:39:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kjones at telus.net writes:

> The thing that really bugs me, which some of you might have bumped 
> into by now, and have not responded to is this: the whole of the 
> comments made by Dumbledore as he was drinking the potion. To me, it 
> sounded like Snape's worst memories, including one remark that was 
> almost word for word one that Harry heard his mother screaming the night 
> of the GH attack.  Could Dumbledore have been a repository for Snape's 
> really worst memories, which were replayed by the potion.  It just 
> doesn't sound like anything that Dumbledore would have been sorry for or 
> done, but it does sound like all of the really bad moments in Snape's 
> earlier years. Apparently pensives are not all that secure in Hogwarts.
> This would also explain Dumbledore's complete faith in Snape.
> 

I actually thought that that might be DD's worst memories replayed. I could 
see him living with regrets about all he's done and all he's failed to do. 
Replay Harry's parent's death? Of course. He must have done so for the last 17 
years. and not just them. How many people in the order have died? DD, I suspect, 
blamed himself for each and every one of them. For not spotting 'Sirius the 
spy', for not insisting the Potters to use him as SK, for [later] not speaking 
to Sirius with Legilimancy, thus leaving him trapped in Askaban for twelve 
years. And those are just the bits we've 'seen' on camera. Furthermore, I'll bet 
the potion magnified every little sin and regret. That might be very well why 
he didn't bring Snape. What would Snape have seen?

The Other Cheryl



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