Spinner's End

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
<big snip> 
> We don't even know that for sure, only that a woman named 
> Eileen Prince married a man named Snape and they had a child.  
> If the name of the child had been mentioned or even the date 
> of the birth announcement had been given I would feel more 
> secure that I was not being led down the garden path.
> 
> I'm not sure that the "Snape" was a polyjuiced impostor.  
> I can't begin to imagine who it would be, if not Snape.  
> I'm only saying that there is no evidence in the entire 
> book of Snape being the HBP except the statement in "Flight 
> of the Prince" and there is no proof that it really is 
> Snape on the lawn and that makes me suspicious.
> 
> Somebody, show me one piece of evidence that doesn't 
> involve conjecture, insinuation, sleight of hand, or 
> leaping to a conclusion.
>

really.  I mean.  Do we really think that JKR wrote up this whole
complicated plot, which spanned the whole of book 6, only to discard
it in book 7?  with everything else that has to be done, do we really
need *another* polyjuiced imposter(been there, done that) and the
*real* Snape is tucked away somewhere else?  

Snape knew the countercurse to Sectumsempra - I never stated that he
told Harry that he knew the curse in the bathroom scene.  I was
referring to the part in the chapter "Flight of the Prince".  Snape
tells Harry he invented Levicorpus and Sectumsempra (because Harry
tried to use them on Snape during that fight) ... Snape's words are
"You dare use my spells against me, Potter?  It was I who invented
them - I, the Half Blood Prince" 

I think JRK pretty much spelled it out for her readers with the
chapter heading - The Flight of the Prince.   Who is fleeing?  Snape.
 Unless, for some unknown reason, Draco is supposed to be the HBP.  

As readers haven't even asked her this question, gee, is Snape really
the Half Blood Prince, I think it is pretty much a given he is who he
says he is.  

I think that JKR spelled it out quite clearly.  There is such a thing
as overkill.   What does either a real Snape or a fake Snape have to
gain by admitting they are the Half Blood Prince?  

And the news article - isn't Hermione considered the voice of reason
and truth?  If you want a straight answer, go to Hermione....<bg>she
never did finish her sentence, but she wouldn't have stated that
Eileen & Tobias didn't have a son named Severus if she hadn't of read
it in the paper.  She did state they had a son and then Harry rudely
interrupted her before she could finish. 

colebiancardi
(I mean, how many people doubted that Vader when he stated he was
Luke's father?  I didn't.  I thought it was bang-y and was horrified
by it, but I believed it)