Spinner's End

[Ceridwen]

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Carol responds:
> Sorry to snip our whole post, but I just can't buy Snape not being 
the Half-blood Prince and the person in the tower and the flight 
scene.

Ceridwen:
I already mentioned that I don't think Snape was anyone but Snape on 
the tower and afterwards on the grounds.  I could see some 
possibility on the tower, but when would this imposter and the real 
Snape change places with Harry running after him?  How could these 
collaborators - and they would have to collaborate in order to change 
places - be assured that Harry or anyone else following wouldn't see 
the switch?  It's too risky in the bad way for spies as it gives 
identity away.

I suggested that *if* we saw a Polyjuiced Snape-imposter in HBP, it 
would have been at Spinner's End.  Any other time, even though I'm 
tempted to think LV might have really wanted to teach DADA and so did 
the Polyjuice thing to finally do it (just for a lark of a 
suggestion, btw, can you imagine LV crying into his pillow at night 
because he was denied the job?), I think Snape was Snape was Snape, 
period.

But I do think someone more major than Crabbe and Goyle was 
Polyjuiced.  Why else would JKR introduce the dire possibilities of 
Polyjuiced baddies, then bonk us on the head with it like it was 
glasses of mead?  The only other possibility, as someone (I think it 
was you, too bad I snipped early!) suggested, would be if someone 
important was Polyjuiced in book 7.

Ceridwen, hoping she cleared this up a little.