Will there be an ESE!character in Book 7?

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 147565

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <belviso at ...> 
wrote:

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> So I do think that it could go either way, and that works for it.  
> And the AK is a huge deal as an action either way.  Really I'm more 
> against discounting any piece of evidence yet.  Like, just as we 
> shouldn't, imo, start looking for ways Snape wasn't really a DE or 
> that wasn't really an AK, nor should be brush aside hints that 
> there's more info to come about his work for DD.

I agree wholeheartedly that it could go either way, and it's been set 
up to make us think of the options--even if it does ultimately settle 
on one or the other.

To bring it back around to the subject heading, that's precisely the 
reason that I don't find a new reveal of an ESE!character in book 
seven to be either likely or necessary.  If we find out that Snape is 
ESE!, confirming one reading of the dramatic events at the end of 
HBP, then we have all kinds of issues of interest there.  Same thing 
if he's DDM! or OFH!, or whatever framework we ultimately get to 
provide motivation to the events of the end of the book.  It seems to 
me that there's enough going on there, with that BANG, that finding 
another character to 'actually' pin the Tail of Evil onto is a little 
superfluous.  We have more than enough material to drive the plot of 
book seven, and the Tower events are central.  Just my suspicions, of 
course.  I suppose there's a chance that Molly actually did do it all.

-Nora wonders what the series would have looked like if Rowling had 
ended up writing it backwards, like the Ring was...