What Little Niggling Details will be left?

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 170844

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
Susan wrote:
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> Items Which Still Needed to Be Answered by JKR  (To peruse this 
> list, go to:  http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-the-list.html)
> 
> So I got to wondering about this:  Just what do you all believe 
> will go UNANSWERED from among those things which are driving you 
> nuts?  These could be Big Mysteries, of course, but I'm thinking 
> especially of those Little Niggling Details.  
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> Here's an example of something I've just decided is likely to go 
> unanswered:  The question of just how much Snape heard of the 
> prophecy at the Hog's Head.  

Yb now:
You think that one won't be covered? Betcha 10 Galleons that it will 
be clear enough in canon by the end of DH. (See note below on my 
thoughts on this one...). Such a large glaring discrepancy - I think 
that Harry will have access to the memory through the Pensieve and 
between him, Ron, and Hermione, one of them will realize something's 
fishy there. This is so huge that even a /character/ will notice it. 
(Like the fact the Scabbers was acting nervous /before/ the cat 
arrived - Harry picked up on that fact.)

I think that she'll leave some of the more subtle things - like did 
DD expect and even lure Moldy into Hogwarts during Harry's first 
year. Or who actually beheld LV's wrath about the diary being 
destroyed (I bet it was Snape). Or did Snape really know what Draco's 
mission was when Narcissa asked him about it.

I also doubt that we'll get much detail on the missing 24 hours at 
the beginning of PS - suffice to say, DD put some protective charms 
on Harry (invoking the blood protection through Lily's connection 
with Petunia) and then he went looking for traces of Moldy.

And sorting Seamus Finnegan - he took over a minute to be sorted. He 
never did say where else the hat considered putting him, did he? Did 
he argue with the hat, or was the hat just thinking?


My two pennies - 
~Yblitzka (who can't wait to see where this thread will go).


Note on the Snape/Trelawney/DD Prophecy discrepancy:
I have two ideas in mind for this situation:
1. Snape heard all of the Prophecy (by luck or design, who knows). DD 
helped remove the majority of the memory.

2. Snape never heard any of it. DD called him up (Patronus power, 
maybe), and Snape was at the door with Aberforth when Trelawney 
snapped out of her trance. DD gave Snape the part of the memory he 
wanted to release.

In either case, Snape is a willing party, wanting to help DD. The 
only problem I have with Snape having the entire memory in his head 
is that a) someone could tell if a memory has been modified (ala 
Slughorn) and b) Moldy Shorts is a powerful Legilimens. If someone 
would come to him with a prophecy, he would want to see the memory - 
the whole thing - for himself. (I personally don't put Moldy above 
catching an informant while he is sleeping and poking through his 
mind a little, just to make sure). If he thought Snape was holding 
back, or that the memory had been twiddled with, everyone's favorite 
professor would be greasy toast before the series even started.

While I don't think Moldy knows Snape is an Occlumens (or, as before, 
greasy toast, a looooong time ago), he couldn't have had any 
indication that there was more to that memory than what he saw.
And either way iot plays out, the truth needs to come out so Harry 
can see that Snape has been the double agent and he's always been a 
very greasy white hat.

:)
~Yblitzka (felt I needed to sign this one too).