Polyjuice potion (was Re: Spinner's End)

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156782

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> colebiancardi:
> 
> > 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"
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> If the Snape on the tower and the lawn is really Snape, 
> then of course he is the Half Blood Prince.  But is there 
> anything we can point to that conclusively proves that it 
> really is Snape?  I can't find anything.  Seeing him on 
> the Marauders' Map would have done so, but, conveniently, 
> Hermione doesn't have the Map when she is waiting outside 
> Snape's office.  The narrator points that out. "We didn't 
> know what was going on upstairs, Ron had taken the map ..."
> 
> There is also nothing that conclusively proves Snape is 
> the HBP, *except* the statement of the character on the 
> law.  It is all assumption.
> 
> I'm not a fan of fantasy literature.  Mystery is my 
> recreational reading genre of choice.  So that's the 
> lens through which I tend to look at the Potter books.  
> And leading readers on all though book 6 to assume that 
> Snape was the HBP only to turn that assumption upside 
> down in book 7 is exactly what a mystery writer would do.
> 
>  

colebiancardi:

I see what you are saying now.  But again, what on earth does this 
buy us?  Nothing.  The irony is gone if it isn't Snape.  The danger 
to Snape is gone.  His loyalities and everything else is gone.

nothing at all anymore with Snape.  Which I don't think that is what 
JKR has in mind for Mr Severus.

colebiancardi
(who on earth would want to drink the "essence" of Snape to 
impersonate him?  ugggggg....)