[HPforGrownups] Re: Spinner's End

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 156808

Ceridwen wrote:
> 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.

   KJ writes:

     I don't see how Snape could be a substituted person.  His part has 
been carefully protected from giving us that impression, unlike Tonks, 
who is very suspicious.  There were numerous hints in the book and the 
poly-juicing of Crabbe and Goyle, who I think were the red herrings. JKR 
says that we will see DD in action in book 7, but that he will not do a 
Gandalf. We also know that DD was forcing Snape to agree to something he 
did not like. We have also been told that DD's family is important in 
the coming book, and she does not specifically mention Dumbledore as the 
person who died in book 6.  I am wondering, as a result of these latest 
posts, if perhaps Dumbledore has already died as a result of his wounds, 
and was replaced temporarily by Aberforth. Assuming Snape was able to 
fake the AK, and Aberforth survived, we will see him again in book 7, 
but Dumbledore will still be dead. DD did seem somewhat crankier in book 
7, God knows he had reason, but maybe it wasn't him. DD would be the 
last person in the world to be suspected of being someone else.

   KJ