Harry IS Snape.

[Ralph Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 141277

Ralph Miller wrote:

>Until we have canon explaining exactly
>what the "please" on the tower meant [?.]

Eggplant wrote:

>We can have theories but I don't see how we can ever know with
>certainty what that "please" meant; Dumbledore is dead so he 
>can't say, and the only character's thoughts we readers have 
>direct accesses to is Harry. The obvious explanation of what 
>that "please" meant is as good as any other.

RM again - 

As good as any other also means it could be as equally flawed as 
any other.  I would propose that the explanation is far from 
obvious as evidenced by the numerous discussions, arguments and 
interpretations posted to this list.

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Eggplant wrote:

>I agree that my viewpoint has not been proven beyond the shadow 
>of a doubt, but in my opinion it has been proven beyond a 
>reasonable doubt. If I were on a jury I would not hesitate for 
>one second to find Snape guilty of first degree murder. I mean, 
>if somebody else was about to throw Dumbledore off that tower 
>and Snape had prevented it nearly everybody would say that was 
>very strong evidence indeed that Snape was basically a good guy, 
>but the rules of evidence work both ways.

RM again -

But even you state that it is an opinion, not a fact. We have 
been shown on many occasions that things in the WW are not always 
as they appear. I do agree that the evidence is as strong as the 
evidence that sent Sirius to Azkaban, oh wait, didn't that turn 
out to be wrong? Well, it was obvious that Hagrid had, perhaps 
unintentially, opened the COS, oh. I think any decent attorney 
could argue this case in such a way that the jury wouldn't be sure whether to hand Snape over to a dementor or take him to lunch. But
then again, if we had all the answers and everything was clear we wouldn't need to read the next book and this list would be pretty 
dull.

Of course, this is just my opinion :-)