[HPforGrownups] Re: ChapDisc: HBP30, The White Tomb - What if...???

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 165837


>> Quick_Silver:
>> My own personal (and unlikely) theory is that the seed of doubt about
>> Snape will be planted in Harry's mind by Draco...
> <snip>
>> Draco will realize that
>> there was in fact someone else on the Tower that saw his hesitation
>> and deduce that it was Harry.
>
> zgirnius:
> This is my pet theory as well. I have a slightly different version of
> it. I think Snape is still bound by the Unbreakable Vow to protect
> Draco, and is thus now in the unenviable position of needing to protect
> Draco from Voldemort. This is something he simply can't do in the long
> run. He needs Draco off his hands and safe with the Order.
>
> If Draco does not figure out Harry was there, heard Dumbledore's offer,
> and saw Draco lower his wand, I expect Snape will tell him. And will
> subtly encourage him to seek Harry out.

Magpie:
I admit I lean a similar way. I've no ideas about what will happen or how or 
why, but it seems like the obvious road for Harry towards his Slytherin 
antagonists is now starting with Draco, based on that slight change in the 
way he views him at the end of HBP. No idea how it will be used, but it 
seemed like something to use (hopefully, for me, with a little different 
closure for Sectumsempra).

If that book is only the first half of the story, that was the one thing 
that seemed like a starting point to get us into the second part. We know 
they're going to be hunting Horcruxes and that Harry's going to have to 
confront Snape and vanquish Voldemort, but that moment seemed like the hint 
of a place to start somehow, given that Harry is now the only person who saw 
that scene on the Tower. It's very rare that Harry has a piece of 
information like that when others don't, especially one that's so Dumbledore 
like, where Harry understands a person better than someone else might 
because he saw this. Harry's almost like Dumbledore's heir when it comes to 
this.

-m