Circumstantial proof of DDM Snape (long)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Irene wrote:

> I'm still not sure where she will go. I can  easily see JKR writing 
> about Harry, Ron and Hermione doing it all  without any help, 
> through "sheer dumb luck". Whether she can pull it  off in a way 
> that won't be completely ridiculous, remains to be  seen.
 

Quoting JKR about the hunt for the Horcruxes (hey, could this be
the title of book 7, Harry Potter and the Hunt for the Horcruxes?
Nah. Too obvious, a bit boring, and lacks climactic punch.), Nora
wrote: 
JKR: It's not all of it. Obviously it's not all of it, but  still, 
that is the way to kill Voldemort. That's not to say it won't be  
extremely an torturous and winding journey, but that's what he's got 
to  do. Harry now knows — well he believe he knows – what he's facing.  
Dumbledore's guesses are never very far wide of the mark. I don't 
want  to give too much away here, but Dumbledore says, `There are four 
out there,  you've got to get rid of four, and then you go for 
Voldemort.' So that's  where he is, and that's what he's got to do.
<snip>

Julie  says:
There is something potentially very interesting JKR says above:
"Harry now knows--well, he believes he knows--what he's facing."
Hmm, so Harry *believes* he knows? In other words, some of what
he "knows" is wrong. For instance, he "knows" that Snape is evil and  
switched sides. I suspect he's wrong there, but he could be wrong
about something else, or even several something elses. 
 
Nora wrote:
Harry may not always be the absolute fastest at doing what  needs to 
be done, but he does have exceptionally valuable intuition, a kind  of 
edge that the more methodical Hermione lacks.  He won't be doing  
everything alone, but there's enough interesting possibilities with 
the  quest given that I'm not sure she'd want to pull in the deus ex 
machina 'Oh,  look, Snape already killed a few of them'.
 
Julie:
I don't expect that to happen either. What I do suspect is that once
Harry destroys the first Horcrux, he may figure out a shortcut to 
locating the others. Thus it won't be a whole book of Harry hunting
down each horcrux with equally consuming amounts of time and
effort.  And while Snape won't actually destroy any  Horcruxes,
I won't be surprised if he is instrumental in Harry locating them.
 
Leslie wrote:
> (Oh, and would not it devalue Dumbledore as a wise  and powerful 
> wizard? To be bested by three half-trained  teenagers?)


Nora wrote:
Guessing about JKR's portrayal of Dumbledore is a tricky thing, these  
days.  Given that Harry is her hero, he came into her mind first, and  
she's built everything around him, I'd say it's an inherent structure 
of  the narrative that he surpasses Dumbledore in some field, by the 
end of the  story.  He may well see things from a different 
perspective not  accessible to the older man, and thus arrive at the 
solution  needed.


Julie: 
Agreed. And I don't think it will devalue Dumbledore. It was 
Dumbledore who gave Harry much of the knowledge he needs,
about Voldemort and about the horcruxes. Additionally, it was
Dumbledore who arranged for a variety of teachers to impart  other
knowledge Harry might need, from his favorite teacher, Lupin, to
his least favorite (though perhaps ultimately most influential in
practical matters), Snape. 
 
I'd also add that while Harry may have to face and defeat 
Voldemort alone, he doesn't have to *get* there alone. He's 
already had considerable help throughout the books, and I'm
sure he'll have more help in book Seven. At which point he will 
ultimately defeat Voldemort with the one weapon that *is* his 
alone--his heart. 
 
Julie 
 









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