Alla's Dream Joke (was I HAD A DREAM...)

quigonginger quigonginger at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 2 19:24:35 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 167007

Alla, in what turned out to be an April Fool's Joke wrote:
> I dreamt about the Tower, lol. And I heard in my dream Dumbledore 
> pleading with Snape and it finally hit on me (DUH, Alla) that 
> Dumbledore indeed does not  show surprise before he pleads with 
Snape. 
> Therefore he indeed must have plead with Snape to do something that 
he 
> asked him to do before.
> 
> This is a sad day for me, people. I have to go and absorb the 
> Dumbledore who could ask Snape to do that. Bye.

Ginger:
Alla, Alla, Alla.  Call me a fish.  You had me hook, line, and sinker.

I was all prepared to post for your approval a theory that has been 
in the back of my mind for months now.  I haven't posted it because 
I've been hundreds of posts behind, and with one thing and another, 
by the time I'd get caught up, it was too late or someone had posted 
something similar.  (Bow to Quick_Silver and also thanking Steve for 
his previous analyses which made the timeline of this theory 
possible.)

However, as punishment for your joke, I am going to post my theory 
anyway.  You are hereby condemned to read it as penance for your 
actions.  Um, if you want to, that is.  I wouldn't actually threaten 
an elf.

Here's the theory:

Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him temporarily, but it didn't work 
out that way.

It all started in my head with a memory of an episode of Star Trek:  
The Next Generation.  In that episode, Tasha Yar was bound by the 
laws of the planet they were visiting to fight another woman to the 
death.  She either had to kill or be killed.  They resolved the 
problem by having Tasha poison the other woman in the battle, the 
doctor pronounced the other women dead, and then gave her an 
antidote, which jump-started her heart and got her living again.  The 
laws of the planet were fulfilled because the other woman had 
actually died.  Her heart had stopped and she was not breathing.  

So, to apply this theory to HP:  

Snape has a Vow to fulfill in which he must kill DD if Draco fails or 
he (Snape) will die.  (canon)
DD knows about this Vow.  (assumption- we only know that DD knows 
that he vowed to protect Draco.)
Snape has spoken of putting a stopper in death. (canon)
We have seen an AK blocked. (canon- the statue and Fawkes in the DoM) 
DD and Snape were overheard by Hagrid arguing that DD was taking too 
much for granted and Snape didnt' want to do it any more.  (canon, 
but a huge amount of speculation on my part of how to apply it.)

Where am I going with all this?  Why, to the tower, of course;)

>From here on out (in the section marked THEORY), this is all 
speculation.  It could work, but it might not.  I'm not insisting on 
any of it being true.  The usual IMO and IMHO and all that apply from 
here on out.  I'm not going to reiterate that every paragraph, so 
don't everyone flame me if it seems like I'm stating fact when I'm 
just stating an opinion.
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~~~~~~THEORY~~~~~

DD knew Draco was trying to kill him.  DD knew that Snape had to kill 
him if Draco didn't.  Neither of them knew when and where Draco would 
strike.  Neither expected an audience of DEs would be present.  

All they could plan for was some sort of contingency that could be 
implemented at any time and in any place.  Snape could cast an AK at 
any time, and DD could perform a transfiguring (or conjuring) charm 
at any time (having been a transfiguration teacher and a really 
powerful wizard to boot).  

The plan was that Snape would cast an AK in the direction of DD, 
which DD would then block by transfiguring something into a fly (or 
bumblebee, if you like- or maybe just conjuring one) and guiding its 
movements so that it would fly directly in front of his chest.  
Snape, who has been aiming at flied since his teenage years (see OoP) 
would then hit the fly with the AK, but it would not be big enough to 
absorb the full spell.  DD would then be hit by a part of the spell, 
which would be enough to stop his heart.  DD would also be protected 
by the potion to which Snape had referred as "putting a stopper in 
death" which would act as sort of a magical pacemaker, for lack of a 
better term.  

DD would die.  Snape would pronounce him dead.  The Vow would be 
fulfilled, Draco would be ushered out, and then DD would revive. 

It would be a lot for DD to take for granted, wouldn't it.  Why risk 
everything on such a mad scheme?  Snape might argue with DD on that.

On the tower, it was time to put the plan into action.  DD was there 
with Draco.  Snape came in and was informed by the DEs that Draco was 
seeming to fail in his task.  It was now or never, but Snape saw that 
DD was weakened by the Goo (although he may not have known that it 
wsa the Goo that had weakened him, he would have certainly seen that 
DD was weak).

There was also the problem of the DE audience.  DD had not planned 
that there would be witnesses.  Draco by himself could have been 
ushered out quickly, but the other DEs would have wanted to stay and 
make sure that DD was as dead as dead can be.  Not to mention 
Greyback wanting him for afters.  Eew.

Snape enters the scene, evaluates, hesitates.  DD pleads.  Snape 
raises his want and fires the AK.  

>From here it goes south.  DD transfigured (or conjures) the fly (or 
bee), which does get the brunt of the AK.  He is now dead.  Snape 
removes his body by levitating it (forcefully) over the battlements.  
He does this so that even if he can't get the DEs out of there, they 
won't be around DD when he revives, and Greyback won't get his 
munchies.  

DD falls to the ground, and either fails to revive due to his 
weakness, or revives, but doesn't have the strength to stay revived 
and dies (this accounts for the fresh blood).

In summary:  Snape kills DD.  The Vow is fulfilled.  DD is dead and 
won't be coming back, as per JKR.  DD did not ask to die 
sacrificially or suicidally in the sense that some people have 
expressed a problem accepting.  Snape's hesitance before casting the 
AK was due to his fear that DD might not be strong enough to survive 
the plan, but he went ahead with it at DD's request, against his 
better judgement.  He risked everything- his job, the trust of his 
collegues and the Order, and the life of his mentor- and lost.  He 
had faced the trial by fire and it had failed.  No wonder he was a 
bit tetchy when Harry called him a coward.
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~~~~~END THEORY~~~~~


So, Alla, and anyone else who had been reading, there's my theory.  I 
don't think there are any Yellow Flags to be thrown.  Some might not 
like it, others might.  JKR almost certainly won't go that way, but I 
think it's a valid theory nonetheless.

Ginger, wishing everyone sweet dreams.  My last one was that Kirk, 
Spock, Scotty and McCoy had beamed down to my old hometown so that 
they could destroy the government because people were only eating 
half their bagels and leaving the other halves in the street where 
they were becoming a fire hazard and general nuisance.  Weird. 





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