Another "Not Really DD" Theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 135059

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "crystalonyx3" 
<onewisdomj25 at h...> wrote:
> I never thought that was really DD thoughout the whole book. 
> Remember when he asked HP if he'd managed to get the true 
> memory from Sluggy'? When HP told him he hadn't gotten 
> it DD reacted in what I thought was out of character. He mentioned 
> HP's cunning.  Cunning?! Doesn't that sound more like a LV (or 
Snape) thing to say.  The real DD knows that Harry is not cunning.  
That boy never divised a plan in his whole life.  HP always just 
jumped in head first and hoped for the best.  
> 
> There were a few other times in  this book that DD didn't sound 
like his usual self. Like when he first found Sluggy.  He poked him 
really hard.  Would DD have done that? And what did he really do when 
he went to the bathroom? Pee? I think not!  Oh,Oh, and when DD had to 
drink that liquid.  He said "It's all my fault."  What was all his 
fault? (What if DD and Snape traded places?)  Why were we told that 
Snape felt guilty about HP's parents? When DD Drank that liquid he 
cried and said- "It's all my fault," and for that matter, it could 
have been Wormtail.  He and Snape were living together at the 
begining.  What if Wormtail reformed?
> 
> The rational part of me says that it is what it is..... Snape is a 
> dirty muther-shut your mouth.  DD is dead and HP is going to loose 
> everyone close to him before this is over (is this still supposed 
to 
> be for children?). But the part of me that gets excited at the idea 
> of magic being real believes that DD is locked up somewhere with 
> chunks of his beard missing and when he fights his way out of that 
> imperious curse I wouldn't want to be the deatheater on duty that 
> night.
> 
> crystalonyx3

Maybe....but no.  You're assuming that people at Hogwarts (and 
elsewhere) are sucking back Polyjuice Potion as if it's Diet Pepsi.  
I think DD has to be dead, for real.  It's the only way Harry can 
face LV on his own, and the only way JKR can bring the series to a 
close.  Book VII is it, folks.  She's warned us about this for a long 
time--so for her to kill off DD at this point represents a major step 
towards the major climax.  Book VII will test Harry's powers like 
never before--and, from what I've read in HBP, Harry seems to have 
outgrown Hogwarts, at least academically.  After all, he's always 
been pretty much self-taught anyway, learning what he needs to know 
on his own in order to face his crises.  He's not a great student--
but I suspect that the really successful people in the wizarding 
world don't owe their success to what they learned in NEWT level 
Potions--even Snape began making up his own spells (if they were his 
own spells) by sixth year.  Fred and George are evidence of that, 
too.  JKR doesn't have much time for rule-bound insitutions, and the 
wizarding world seems in danger of collapsing under the weight of its 
own rules.  Harry's being the Chosen One may have as much to do with 
his decision to forego rules as much as it does anything that came 
out of Trelawny's mouth--and DD as much as tells him that (the 
prophecy applies to Harry because Harry chose to have it apply to 
him).

That's getting off the topic of DD's death, but I think it's all 
related.

Noel.