Amazingly accurate predictions

[Nicolau C. Saldanha]

No: HPFGUIDX 141548

ellecain:

> It goes on to speculate about why JKR might assign this role to 
> Snape and whether he might be OFH/ESE/DDM etc. I found it 
> completely shocking that someone could have made such accurate 
> predictions about the plot and which book this might happen in 
> without some serious Divination. 
> I really want everyone to check it out. As I dont know how to make 
> this a real link, all I can do is give you the number - 
> its 69563. I think that it might be relevant to the Snape 
> discussions going on.

Nicolau:
I heard somewhere the story that Oedipus had decided to answer "Man"
to whatever the sphynx asked, never mind what exactly the question
was. The comparable easy way to make impressive predictions in HP is
to answer "Snape". I will let you think up the questions yourself
("Who is the half-blood prince?" is a good place to start).

More seriously, the post is great and the speculation remains as
relevant as ever. I particularly like this bit:

Derannimer wrote:
> 5. JKR is setting up Snape as a big moral challenge for Harry
> at some point in the series.

> (I am indebted for this one to someone who wrote a post about it.
> I don't know who this person was, and I'm not trying to find it now.
> But the post contained a line about how "Harry is heading down the 
> path to the rocky precipice where he shouts 'The Ring is MINE!'"
> Post-writer, you know who you are, I suppose. Thanks.)

Nicolau:
I imagine Harry and Snape becoming friends, this positive attitude
passing through the scar to Voldemort causing him to explode in a puff
of noxious gas while screaming "This can not be!"... :-)

Nicolau