[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry is Snape

[James Sharman]

No: HPFGUIDX 141386


-- Claudia wrote
And what about the scene where a young, strong, healthy boy forces an 
old, weak and injured man to drink something this old man clearly 
doesn't want to drink, is making him suffer terribly and probably even 
die?

-- James writes

Interesting way to look at it. If we ponder the idea that the potion was in
fact going to kill Dumbledore then we have another twist to the DDM
hypothesis. It can be argued that snape in AK'ing DD was serving the order,
he was securing his position with LV (in order to help Harry later) and he
was saving Draco from becoming a murderer. But what if there was a third
reason? if DD was actually going to die from the potion then Snape has also
saved Harry from the guilt associated with that. That kind of guilt is not
something young Harry needs going into the final book.

If snape does indeed turn out to be DDM, and the moments before were an
agreement between DD and Snape on what had to happen then the sacrifice
(while large) did have some significant returns.