Dumbledore doubles (Re: DD and Snape's Culpability)

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No: HPFGUIDX 148117

brady:

> Anyways, it is definitely going to be such a long painful wait till 
> we get our answers. I love thrillers, but hate suspenses. 

houyhnhnm:

Serial fiction was great (I'm sure) when it came out in the _Strand_
once a month.  Two years *is* a long time to wait.  Sometimes I think
future readers of the Potter series will have it better because they
will be able to read all the books straight through.

On the subject of reconciling the evidence for Snape's knowing the
entire prophecy with Dumbledore's statement in the broom shed, there
is a crazy idea I have not been able to get out of my head lately.

It's just wild speculation.  I'm not prepared to write a treatise to
support it, but what if ... HBP is filled with DD doubles (kind of
like Saddam doubles) either to draw off suspicion as DD hunts for the
horcruxes, or because Dumbledore did die of the ring curse and the
Order doesn't want either Voldemort or the rest of the WW (It might
cause panic) to know that he's dead.  So different members of the
Order (or anyone else that can be coerced--Pettigrew perhaps) take
turns being polyjuiced or transfigured to impersonate him.  So, maybe
it was Snape *under* the hat, in the broom shed.

I know.  It's even more over-the-top than Snape the spider animagus on
DD's hat (which I can't take credit for, but I like it a lot).