[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco's Plot

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 152534

 
In a message dated 5/19/2006 3:03:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
justcarol67 at yahoo.com writes:

Like  you, I've wondered about Snape's remark ("I think he expects me
to do it in  the end"). Clearly, as you say, he's left in the dark
about Draco's plan  for getting the DEs into Hogwarts and does not even
know they're there  until Flitwick tells him. He's very quiet and
thoughtful as he says these  words, as if he's not absolutely sure, but
I think he's stating a real  expectation (or a real fear, if he's DDM).



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Sherrie here:
 
Or perhaps "he" doesn't refer to Voldemort at all?  Granted, that's  the 
immediate prior referent - but it's a general pronoun.  What if it  refers to 
Dumbledore?  Being a firm believer in the coup de grace theory, I  can certainly 
read it that way.  Dumbledore has already been seriously  (mortally?) injured 
by Slytherin's ring - Snape has (probably) already  "stoppered death" for him.  
The "quiet and thoughtful" way Snape says this  indicates to me that he 
expects to have to pull that stopper, as well
 
I DON'T think they'd planned anything as dramatic as the scene on the  tower, 
though - I think it was supposed to happen quietly, over the  summer.  
Draco's bumblings just forced their hands.
 
Sherrie


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