Emmeline: As dead as we think? (was Harry IS Snape!)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 141197


> CH3ed wrote: 
> 
> Ginger & Deb's theory that Emmeline and Mme Bones (and maybe 
> others?) faked their death is interesting. I also wonder what does
> the drought of the living death do. However, it seems to be a canon 
to 
> me that the AK is not blockable and there is no counter spell to 
it. 
> Harry only survived it the first time because Lily died to save 
him, 
> and the second time was because his wand and LV's share a core. 
>    Also, if Snape 'modified' the memory of the DE who did the
> murders, wouldn't LV be able to break it? He did Bertha Jorkins and 
he 
> is one of the best legilimens ever. 
> 

zgirnius:
I don't think that Emmeline was killed with the AK. If one of the 
purposes of the murder was to intimidate Muggles, AK would be the 
wrong curse to use. The death would then not look to Muggles like the 
result of "foul play". Recall that the Riddles were murdered by Tom, 
and the gardener Frank Bryce was suspected. But this never led to 
charges because on further investigation the authorities were forced 
to conclude that all three just dropped dead for no apparent reason...

The memory modification would be a risk, of course. But I gather that 
what Voldemort did to Bertha Jorkins is not something he would 
typically do to a random DE who had just (seemingly) accomplished a 
successful mission. What was done to Bertha rendered her completely 
useless thereafter...

And a casual Legilimensing wwould not turn up anything suspicious.

I think this is a nice theory about the Vance murder.