Polyjuice potion (was Re: Spinner's End)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Ken wrote:
I guess the key is that is there *anything* that *certainly* ID's 
Snape as the HBP? Or are there just several things that point that way
but are inconclusive when examined in detail? Hermione never actually
said that Eileen gave birth to a son named Severus though we are
intended to believe that she was about to. Even if Snape is her son
that doesn't mean he was the only half blood Prince floating around.
And right to the very end Hermione insists it is a girl's handwriting.
Don't appeal to the "wonderful irony" either, JKR insists that writers
are cruel. DD's killer would not spare Irony.

Julie:
The main problem with saying Snape can't be IDed with certainty
in the Tower scene is that this is true of almost any given 
character in almost any given scene. Take Sirius for instance...
 
How do we know it was Sirius who fell through the veil? It 
looked like him but there's no absolute certain proof that it
wasn't someone polyjuiced to look like him. Maybe it was 
Emmeline Vance, and DD wanted her to go through the veil to
report what he can expect from his next great adventure. She
cleverly positioned herself in front of the veil for Bellatrix
to send her through, all the while channeling Sirius's temper
and recklessness. To cover her disappearance, the whole killed 
by DEs story was concocted after the fact. Meanwhile DD put
Sirius into even deeper hiding to protect him from his own
worst impulses, and Sirius will return in Book 7 to help Harry
now that DD is dead and can't keep him confined any longer.
 
Okay, that's not very probable, but it does illuminate the
fact that just about anyone could be polyjuiced at any time 
in the books. We can take any scene and devise a theory why
that person wasn't really *that* person and why not. 
 
I agree that JKR will certainly surprise us in Book 7, and
one of those surprises may include an unexpectedly polyjuiced
character. I just don't think it will be at the expense of 
jettisoning important character moments and plotlines, like
the real Sirius sacrificing himself to save Harry, and the
real Snape being the boy Harry so identified with as well as
the man Harry despises. Why waste great psychological 
developments like that?
 
Julie  
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