A couple of little theories!

[Rebecca Hillary]

No: HPFGUIDX 162035

Hiya.

I've only had one post on here, so I'd like to throw out a couple of
theories, which may not be new (it'd take ages to read through
everything on here!), but I'm interested in what everyone else thinks.

First of all, in GoF;c33 Voldemort says that his most faithful
servant has already entered his service, is at Hogwarts and it was
through his efforts that Harry was in the graveyard at all. So it's
Snape? That's what you think reading that. Yet in GoF;c35 Barty
Crouch Jr says that he was the one who did everything. This is under
the influence of the Veritaserum, so it has to be true. Yet Snape is
in the room while Barty takes said truth serum, and it is always
possible that Snape (who is quite capable of casting spells
wordlessly) could have had him under the Imperius curse, couldn't he?
Well, no, because Snape wasn't in the room when 'Moody' told Harry he
was the one who put Harry's name in under a different school, that he
gave him the clues, and turned the cup into a portkey. We also know
that if JKR has to tell us anything really important it is said in
dialogue by Dumbledore or Hermione. Hermione very frequently and very
insistently keeps telling us that 'Dumbledore trusts Snape', as does
Dumbledore himself. So what I see here is incontrovertible proof that
Snape cannot possibly be working for Voldemort, and is therefore not
evil. (And I'm not just saying this as a lifelong fan of Alan
Rickman, because I like him best as baddies!)

Secondly, I have no idea why this hit me the other night while re-
reading GoF, but I was just struck by an amazingly scary thought. We
know that Wormtail owes Harry a life debt, and there are some fans
who would suggest that Snape also does, through his previous life-
deat to James Potter, but we must also remember that through
Voldemort choosing Harry as the child in the prophecy, Harry
inadvertently spared the life of someone else. Someone who, it could
maybe be said, Harry loves. One of his closest friends. The one with
whom he shared a terrible secret for at least a year - Neville
Longbottom. We know that Neville is not the brightest of students,
and he says himself he is little more that a squib. From the way the
prophecy sounds, the child in the prophecy has to die to kill
voldemort. Now we know that Harry has been saved by love before, and
I believe he will be again. Neville, who only ever wants to make his
parents and his gran proud, and will sacrifice himself to save Harry.
Only what I think is that Harry never was 'The Chosen One', and due
to this huge lapse in judgement, Voldemort will kill Neville, and
himself, and the prophecy will be fulfilled.

Hope you like these hypothesese!

Beci