Dumbledore's Past? - Switching Bodies

[tobyfoot23]

No: HPFGUIDX 168930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> bboyminn:
> 
> > Second, to what end? What was the purpose? Why would 
> > Snape and Dumbledore even conceive of such an idea? 
> > Dumbledore is not exactly a dunderhead, he is probably 
> > the greatest living wizard on earth. I can see no real 
> > practical reason for them to switch. The 'Switch' does 
> > serve the theory, but how does the theory serve the story?
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> If it turns out that Snape and Dumbledore had been 
> switching identities all along, it would explain 
> Dumbledore's statement that Snape "is now no more a 
> Death Eater than I am."  It would be an addtional 
> reason for Dumbledore to trust Snape (a la Pwyll 
> and Arawn).  It would also explain why James Potter 
> left his invisibility cloak with Dumbledore when 
> Dumbledore doesn't need a cloak to become invisible 
> (Snape does, even when he is disguised as Dumbledore).
> 
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Tobyfoot23:

To add another statement made by Snape in "Spinner's End" that caught 
me eye during the last reading of HBP: "But through all these years, 
he [Lord Voldemort] has never stopped trusting Severus Snape, and 
therein lies my great value to the Dark Lord" HBP p.31 American ed.  

In this weird statement from Snape he refers to himself in the third 
person and that "screams" clue to me.  I think the person we see as 
Snape here is someone else (polyjuice potion, anyone?).  I don't know 
if it's really Dumbledore or another person at this point.  But it's 
been nagging at me for some time.  Someone else have a theory?

Tobyfoot23, who has trouble thinking up witty things end with, but 
loves reading those that are posted.