[HPforGrownups] Re: HBP Theories

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 133528

jjjjjuliep wrote:
> --- 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?
   jjjjjuliep

Kathy writes:
    BUT if Dumbledore was sending Snape back to Voldemort, he must have 
known that there was a chance that he would see everything in Snape's 
mind. Obviously, pensives are not terribly secure around Harry. I think 
DD is hiding everything he needs to in his own head.  We have seen him 
place memories in his head before. Don't you think it is an enticing 
theory when you compare the comment "Not that, not that, I'll do 
anything" to what Harry hears his mother say when he is attacked by 
dementors, "not Harry! Not Harry! Please-I'll do anything-"  I also 
think that these memories as well as others have been sent back to Snape 
now that he has "proven himself beyond all doubt"
KJ