HBP Theories

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No: HPFGUIDX 133480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Jones <kjones at t...> wrote:

>    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'm not sure why the potion in the cave would have anything to do with 
Snape, or why Dumbledore, upon drinking it, would channel any of 
Snape's memories?

I think that either Dumbledore drank the Draught of Living Death (which 
we are first introduced to in SS/PS) or, more interestingly to me, now 
that we know that that Horcrux is a hoax, he drank a Pensieve-like 
thing of the last memories of the people Voldemort killed (something 
Regulus Black put in the cistern in order to torment Voldemort).

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