Aberforth was another former DE, now living in witness protection...

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 135710

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> colebiancardi wrote:
> vivian - please read my post
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/135368
> there is a link in it that points to why the reason why Snape turned
> *good* and the key is....Regulus
>
> original theory link:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/135111
>
> vmonte:
> I also think that the reason Snape went to Dumbledore was because of
> Regulus, but not for the reason you have (although of course you may
> be right).
>
> I cannot see Snape being friends with anybody, sorry. (If they did
> have a friendship it will turn out in book 7 that Snape was just
> using Regulus for information.) We already know that Snape has a
> habit of following people around, snooping, and working things for
> his best interest. I believe that Snape was probably suspicious of
> Regulus and somehow found out about the horcruxes.

colebiancardi:
good point on the friends issue. One of my thoughts, as I too
sometimes think that about Snape, is that he does make good
connections with the right *people* - the Malfoy's, for instance.
Narcissa states that Snape "is Lucius's old friend" in Spinner's End,
so I am assuming he CAN make friends, but not the buddy-buddy type.
The reasons I think Snape & Regulus were *friends* are a) It is the
right family(the Blacks, pure-blood & old), b) Lucius was probably
already sniffing around Narcissa and she is a cousin to Regulus c)
they are in the same house and it has been stressed that your house at
Hogwarts is like your family and d) what a better way to dig into
Sirius - being friends with his brother. And a BIG reason why Sirius
still hated Snape to the day he died - especially if it was Snape who
recruited Regulus to become a Death Eater. Notice that Snape's
*friends* are pure-blood, unlike himself. He choose his friends based
on their linage, not for any real liking - perhaps.  

>
> So, either Regulus is indeed dead, or he is alive but not quite the
> same man he was before. Hence the reason for the goat smell at the
> bar and the illegal goat spell. Is he ill? Does he need to take
> medication for the adverse effects of the lake potion?

colebiancardi:
I think that this was the opportunity that Snape needed - remember, DD
stated in GoF, in the trial scene, that Snape turned spy for them at
great personal risk. If Snape was the one who delivered Regulus to
DD, against Voldemort's orders that Snape kill Regulus - that is a
pretty big personal risk. Sirius stated in OotP that you didn't just
leave the Death Eaters - it was a life-long commiment or you were
dead. I do believe that Regulus is not the man he was before - he may
have mentioned some babbling story about souls and splitting them to
DD & Snape, but the true meaning of what Voldemort was planning to do
- create 7 horcruxes - was not revealed until HBP. DD already knows
about horcruxes, as Slughorn tells Riddle that it is a forbidden
knowledge - very Dark Arts.  If Slughorn knows about them, I am sure
DD does as well.  And Snape, being the dark arts guy, would know a
thing or two about them as well, I would think. But what Voldy was
really up to - not until now did DD know about it.

> I still, however, like the idea that Regulus would have made Kreacher
> drink the potion. It sounds so Slytherin to me.

colebiancardi:
and this could explain why Krecher is so unbalanced :)

>Could be why Snape hates Neville (just like he hates Harry because of
>his parents).

colebiancardi:
I think Snape hates everyone at this point - it's his persona. I
posted it before, but I think that if he is such a powerful wizard and
he is a spy who is risking his life, that teaching a bunch of
dunderheads at Hogwarts must be dull and boring for him. No wonder he
gets his kicks out of terrorizing the kids.

> So, who the heck is Aberforth? Is he really Dumbledore's brother? It
> would be great if this person turned out to be someone else entirely.
>

colebiancardi:
shades of Mad-Eye Moony :) I take it from your postings that you are
in the ESE!Snape catagory and you probably have guessed by now I am in
the Good!Snape catagory or if worse comes to worse, the TW!Snape - Top
Wizard - catagory. I would rather have Snape be a character who is
always looking out for himself and his own priorities and once LV is
defeated, try to step into the power void left behind, as DD & LV are
now gone. But I would rather Snape be a nasty bastard who is still a
loyal member of the OotP.

>vmonte:
>Sound familiar. Olivander, anyone? Nice place to work, no? He
>remembers every wand sold and every student that purchased one. How
>old is this guy? Did he also sell Tom Riddle his wand?

colebiancardi:
yes. SS/PS Diagon Alley - "Mr Ollivander fixed Harry with his pale
stare. "I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every
single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in
your wand, gave another feather - just one another. It is very
curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its
brother - why, its brother gave you that scar"

which brings up a point made in GoF - Harry and Voldemort cannot
possibly be thinking of dueling. Their wands "will not work properly
against each other," said Dumbledore. "If, however, the owners of the
wands force the wand to do battle....a very rare effect will take
place." - which is the Priori Incantatem spell.

makes me wonder what the blazes Harry is going to use on Voldemort....

colebiancardi