How will Snape come back?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 162658

zgirnius wrote:
> My own gut feeling is that, somehow, during the hostilities in a 
> hypothetiocal meeting such as the one you propose, Harry will gain 
> the upper hand. I think this is the only way he'll listen, and the 
> only way Snape will get riled up enough to say what he really thinks.
>
Carol responds:
Since Snape can use Legiliency and nonverbal spells, easily
outduelling Harry after running down eight or so flights of stairs and
clear across the castle grounds, I think the only way that Harry could
have Snape at his mercy is to Stun him from behind or have his friends
surround him at wandpoint. I can just see/hear Snape saying, "You're a
fool, Potter! If you want help with those Horcruxes. . . ." Then Harry
might just listen. (Imagine Shrieking Shack redux, with Snape in
Sirius Black's role. Would Lupin step in again and make Harry listen
because he, too, wants to know what really happened on the tower and
why Snape took the UV?)

Actually, I have absolutely no idea how JKR will get Harry to listen
to Snape, but I really think that Harry at Snape's mercy is more
likely than the reverse. (Petrificus Totalus, where Harry has no
choice but to listen, might work. Or Incarcerus, the rope-binding
spell, combined with Silencio.)

Carol, who wants to see Neville have Bellatrix at his mercy and choose
*not* to Crucio her but instead turn her over to the Aurors