[HPforGrownups] The Cave

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 134216

Cathy Drolet wrote:
> I may have missed this while I was off-list avoiding spoilers.  If it 
> has already been discussed then forgive me, list-elves!
> 
> These are DD's words, spoken in the Chapter "The Cave" while he was 
> being force-fed potion by HP.
> 
> "I don't want...don't make me
> Don't like ... want to stop
> No. I don't want to ... I don't want to ... let me go
> Make it stop, make it stop
> No, no, no ... no ... I can't ... I can't, don't make me, I don't want to
> It's all my fault, all my fault, please make it stop. I know I did 
> wrong. Oh, please make it stop and I'll never, never again.
> Please, please, please, no ... not that, not that, I'll do anything
> No more, please, no more
> I want to die! I want to die! Make it stop, make it stop, I want to die!
> Kill me!"
> 
> I can't be the only one who thinks there is more to this than random 
> ravings of a potion/poison drinker?  Is this snippets of the argument 
> that DD had with Snape (overheard, partially, by Hagrid)?  Or snippets 
> of a conversation between DD and Snape after Snape realized what LV was 
> going to do with the prophecy information? 

Kathy writes:

     Actually, I posted on this a while ago, but it has not really been 
discussed. I believe that the first line is when the Prince family 
forced Snape into the Deatheaters.
  The second and third lines are Snape's traumatic response to the DE 
activities.
  The fourth line is Snape being Marked.
The fifth line is Snape's confession to Dumbledore and being sent back 
to spy.
  The sixth line is is almost a repeat of what Harry remembers his 
mother saying before she was killed.
  The seventh line is Snape's response to being sent back to Voldemort 
after his rise.
The last line is Snape's response to learning that he must kill 
Dumbledor. I think he wants to die instead and I think that is why he 
took the Unbreakable Vow. He saw it as a way out.
The last line is Dumbledore's order to Snape. It was all capitals and 
did not look like the rest. I think that Dumbledore has been holding 
Snape's memories and feelings about what he is doing since he began 
spying before James and Lily's death.
I think that the funeral fire was the spell to release those memories 
back to Snape after what will probably be his last interrogation by 
Voldemort as he will now be trusted completely.
KJ