Hmmm. What's your favorite *now*?

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 183068

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "witherwings999" 
<witherwing at ...> wrote:
>
> For example, I discovered on my fourth read that in Snape's memory 
of Dumbledore telling 
> him there will come a time when Voldemort will fear for the life of 
his snake... when Snape 
> is shocked to discover that Harry must give himself up to die... 
Dumbledore is said *twice* 
> to have his eyes closed.(DH Am.Ed.p.686-7)... Hmmm... Now I'm 
mulling over thoughts of 
> why DD would make sure his eyes were closed tightly as he let Snape 
in on this part of his 
> plan...

Jack-A-Roe:
I noticed that he closed his eyes the first time I read it. I had 
first thought they he was just trying to remember the facts 
(sometimes it's easier with your eyes closed).

But the more times I review it, I believe he was trying to hide his 
thoughts from Snape. Dumbledore tells him the truth about the piece 
of the soul attaching to Harry and then Dumbledore says 

"We have protected him because it has been essential to teach, to 
raise him, to let him try his strength"

Which is where Harry believes he has been set up and a large part of 
the manipulative Dumbledore comes from.

But I notice that he didn't tell Snape everything. He didn't mention 
the part he says in Kings Cross (Am ed 710) "He took your blood 
believing it would strengthen him. He took into his body a tiny part 
of the enchantment your mother laid upon you when she died for you. 
His body keeps her sacrifice alive, and while that enchantment 
survives, so do you and so does Voldemort's one last hope for 
himself."

I think he closed his eyes so Snape wouldn't figure out that he 
wasn't being told the entire truth.

Jack-A-Roe