HBP - all comments to other messages in one

[Kathrin P]

No: HPFGUIDX 133821

First off I have to say that I really, really tried to read all the 
messages, but it was simply impossible to do just this! So I ended up 
skinning most posts, because I was already so far behind with my whole 
delivery troubles. 
  
Jospehine wrote: 
if Snape is still on DD's side, what does Harry have to gain from his 
allegience?

Kathrin now: 
I'm positive Snape will be around in book 7 and I also think he might be 
there for a good reason. After all, all we know it that both Voldy AND Snape 
are skilled in occlumency, right? But do we know whether their skills are 
equally developed/trained? What if Snape is better in occlumency and 
legitimacy and left Hogwarts with Draco and the other DEs after 'killing' DD 
so that he can try to find out more about the Horcruxes? Maybe he will come 
back after he gathered the information necessary and helps Harry destroy 
them and fight Voldy - I think with all his skills he would be the perfect 
person to help Harry with the showdown, the final battle…


Amanda said: 
Additionally, the theory that I've been reading a lot on the boards is that 
the book was 
actually Snape's mother's book when she was at Hogwarts

Kathrin again: 
I thought we were told that it was proven that the hand written spells were 
Snape's… I don't remember exactly where (again due to the fact that I don't 
know the book well enough yet to find everything I need to quote), but if my 
memory doesn't betray me it was said in this very book that the hand writing 
was Snape's for sure. So there's no chance it was his mother who invented 
the spells in Harry's Advanced Potions book.


pdoshi72 asked: 
What if JKR makes Harry the DADA teacher next year?

Kathrin's answer:
Sorry, but I don't think so, what does he know about DADA? He had troubles 
with the "how to fight Dementors best"(again, I couldn't find the exact 
page, but I think it must be somewhere in Chapter 9), right? And, if I 
remember correctly, JKR also stated that Harry would never be a teacher. 


In an interview (see also message 132993):
One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to fall 
in love. 
JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with them? 
That's a very horrible idea. 

Kathrin again (, and again, and again ;-) ):
I no longer think of this as a horrible idea. I think there is someone who 
could love Snape, I think he even deserves this. There seems to be some bad 
experiences in his past that made him the person he now is - no need to 
judge him without remembering this, I think…


Jazmyn about Snape's kill-and-leave behavior: 
No final villain speech, no good-byes, no gloating.. Just an AK to the heart 
and out the door.

Kathrin's thoughts:
I agree - it all went too smooth without the typical ‚I'm an evil person' 
talk…There must be something we don't know (yet)! By the way, your 
mentioning the AK made me wonder: What happens, when an AK is not wanted, 
yet spoken? Do we know?


Kjirstem wrote: 
- She's in the habit of strolling the Room of Req't corridor
- She's ineffective in the battle below the Astronomy tower
Many of these are explained away by 1) her sorrow over Sirius'
death and 2) depression due to Lupin's rejection of her. However,
that doesn't explain the last two points on the list

Kathrin now:
Maybe Tonks wanted a break from grieving (over Lupin not loving her or 
wanting to be with her) and going to a safe place? After all, the Room of 
Recreation would have been the best place to do so, wouldn't it? And we only 
know from her that she was supposed to guard Hogwarts at the times she 
strolled the corridor near the RoR, right? So maybe she was there in her 
time off duty and wanted to sneak into the room unseen? 

Kathrin (who is still rolling on the floor laughing whenever she thinks of 
the garden dnome dressed as a christmas angel *g*)


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