Flight of the Prince

[whtwitch91]

No: HPFGUIDX 147203

This whole scene has always had bits that bother me, and I think 
that DD could hav made up a plan to die on the tower.  Take Draco 
and his DE buddies out of the mix. DD comes back from the cave 
having drunk something that amounts to cursed antifreeze.  He has 
scoped out this situation earlier (remember those unexplained 
trips?) and is certain that it is a deadly poisen, and to drink it 
is to die.  (Regulus Black arrived at that same cave earlier and 
died mysteriously later, I've always suspected from that poisen.) DD 
tells Harry to get Snape, not Madame Pomfrey, but Snape.  Perhaps 
the scenario for Snape tokill DD is set to go that night.  Then 
Draco arrives and DD improvises. He has Harry hidden under the 
invisibility cloak, and then he immobilizes him!  Why do you 
immobilize your best fighter in a time of crisis?  Earlier he 
said "I always feel safe with you, Harry."  That little plot twist 
has always seemed strange to me. Isn't this a little clue from Jo 
that we are being slipped a mickey? 

There is only one solution short of carelss writing by Jo, and I 
dismiss that. 

Because it's all set up.  Snape was supposed to kill DD on the 
tower. And Harry was supposed to see it or know it irrefutably. I 
have been rereading all the books one after the other and by reading 
them in such a compressed manner one thing stands out.  Snape has 
deliberately antagonized Harry, probably with DD's permission.  He 
wants Harry to absolutely hate him.  And as for why, only one thing 
occurs to me now for a reason for that. At some point in time Harry 
has to hate Snape enough to point his wand at him and utter Avada 
Kadavra and mean it.  Don't ask me why.

Sue