[HPforGrownups] Re: Time turner theory

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 161990


--- Nina Baker <sweety12783 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Also Harry may even be able to get more information as to why 
> Snape turned or even see Snape's life changing event. Either way 
> Harry will be better off going back in time. 


Personally I think it would be great to find out that in fact it
wasn't James who saved Snape's life in the tunnel but rather TT!Harry
gone back in time.  Snape would be pretty stressed immediately
afterwards (proximity to werewolves tends to do that to you) but he
would babble some nonsense to Dumbledore about James' eyes turning
green.  Dumbledore would discount it as just temporary craziness.

Then 10-year-old Harry gets to Hogwarts and Dumbledore sees him up
close for the first time and the penny drops with a loud clang (a
coincidence that baby!Harry in PS/SS is sleeping and Dumbledore can't
see his eyes?).  And when Snape sees him he knows that this is the
kid he owes that %$%#^ life-debt to and it doesn't put him in a good
mood.

Think of the fun!  Think of Harry's angst in Book 7 when he finds out
he has to go back and save the man he hates almost more than
Voldemort!  Think of him doing it anyway and learning something from
the whole process - maybe about his mother?  I'm convinced that Snape
went into that tunnel that night thinking he had to protect Lily from
some Marauder prank; I've always thought the claim that Sirius'
telling him how to work the Whomping Willow caused him to just up and
try it a little too pat and glib for belief.  

And it makes no sense that young Snape wouldn't have screamed the
castle down to get everyone expelled afterwards - unless there was
something about his own actions that he didn't want revealed.  Like
he was saving Lily - something he might not want his fellow Slyths,
or James Potter or even Lily herself to know.

Magda


 
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