CHAPDISC: DH33, The Prince's Tale

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CHAPTER DISCUSSIONS: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter
33, The Prince's Tale

Note to everyone: Please pardon the length of this summary. The
chapter is 28 pages long (Scholastic edition).

As Harry kneels beside the murdered Snape, he hears Voldemort's
magically amplified voice, sounding so close to him that he nearly
drops the flask of memories.

Voldemort tells the staff and students of Hogwarts that, though he
regrets spilling a drop of magical blood, they will all die if they
don't turn Harry over to him within an hour. Then he addresses Harry
directly, implying that he's a coward who lets his friends die rather
than facing death himself. He threatens to resume the battle
and "enter the fray" himself if Harry fails to give himself up and to
punish anyone who tries to conceal him.

Telling Harry not to listen, Hermione and Ron rush into the tunnel.
Instead of following them immediately, Harry stares down at Snape's
body, feeling nothing but shock at the way Snape died and the reason
for his death.

They find the entrance hall empty and silent, its floor stained with
blood and littered with emeralds from the broken Slytherin hourglass,
along with splintered wood and shattered marble from a broken
banister. In the Great Hall, survivors huddle in groups, comforting
one another, as Madam Pomfrey and her helpers treat the wounded, one
of whom is Firenze. In the middle of the room lie the dead.

The Weasleys stand around Fred's body, George kneeling at his feet,
Mrs. Weasley lying across his chest. Ron joins Bill and Fleur, and
Hermione hugs Ginny. Percy flings an arm around Ron's shoulders.
Harry sees Lupin and Tonks lying together, looking peacefully asleep.
He can't bear to look at any other bodies to see who else died for
him or to join the Weasleys, feeling that if he'd given himself up
earlier, Fred might still be alive.

Not thinking where he's going, he runs through the deserted castle
until he reaches the gargoyle guarding the entrance to the
headmaster's office. The gargoyle asks him for the password and he
blurts out "Dumbledore!" To his astonishment, the door slides open.

The headmaster's office is empty, the portraits (even Dumbledore's)
having deserted their frames to see what's happening downstairs.
Heaving the Pensieve onto the desk, he pours the contents of the
flask into it. Not even Snape's memories, he thinks, can be worse
than what he's feeling.

Diving in, he falls headlong into a nearly deserted playground where
two little girls are swinging and a black-haired boy in shabby
clothes, obviously Severus Snape, is watching them from behind a
clump of bushes. He looks about nine or ten, small, sallow,
and "stringy."

The older girl shrieks, "Lily, don't do it!" as Lily jumps from the
swing, soaring through the air and landing lightly on her feet.
Petunia protests, but Lily tells "Tuney" that she's fine. Lily picks
up a fallen flower and, to Petunia's horror, makes it open and close
in her hand. Petunia shrieks again and Lily drops the flower. "It's
not right," scolds Petunia. "How do you do it?"

Severus steps out from behind the bushes. Petunia shrieks and runs,
but Lily stands her ground. He tells her that she's a witch. Lily,
not surprisingly, thinks she's been insulted.
Looking batlike in his overlarge coat, Severus explains that being a
witch isn't bad. His mum is one, and he's a wizard.

Petunia regains her courage, identifying him as "that Snape boy" and
accusing him of spying on them. He retorts that he wouldn't spy on a
Muggle. The girls leave and Severus stands alone, his face reflecting
bitter disappointment.

The scene dissolves and Harry finds himself standing in a thicket
near the river. Lily and Severus sit cross-legged on the ground,
facing each other. Eyes gleaming with excitement, Severus tells her
that magic and Hogwarts are real for him and Lily but not for
Petunia. He talks about the Ministry of Magic sending warning letters
to kids who do magic outside school and tells Lily that someone will
come to her house to explain about Hogwarts because she's Muggle-
born. When she asks whether being Muggle-born makes any difference,
he says no; he's seen her do "loads" of magic. She asks about
Dementors and he tells her that they guard Azkaban, where wizards
who "do really bad stuff" are sent.

Petunia, who's been hiding behind a tree, loses her footing. He
accuses *her* of spying and she retaliates by insulting his clothes.
A branch breaks, hitting her shoulder. Petunia bursts into tears and
runs away. Angrily, Lily asks Severus if he made that happen. He
denies it, but Lily doesn't believe him. She follows her sister,
leaving him looking miserable and confused.

A new scene forms, and Harry finds himself on Platform 9 3/4. Severus
stands next to his mother, but he's watching the Evans family. Harry
hears Lily telling "Tuney" that she's sorry about Dumbledore's letter.

Petunia retorts that she doesn't want to go to "some stupid castle"
and learn to be a "freak." She tells Lily that separating "weirdos"
like her and "that Snape boy" by sending them to Hogwarts is actually
good because it protects "normal people" from the weirdos. Lily
reminds Petunia that she begged Dumbledore to let her into Hogwarts
and says that she saw Dumbledore's kind reply. Petunia is so furious
at the "freaks" for poking their noses into her business that she
actually spits at Lily.

The scene skips to Severus on the Hogwarts Express, already wearing
his school robes. In one corner of a compartment full of rowdy boys,
Lily sits hunched with her face to the windowpane. Severus sits down
across from her. Her face streaked with tears, Lily tells him that
Petunia hates her. He starts to say that Petunia is only a Muggle but
catches himself. He says excitedly that they're on their way to
Hogwarts, adding that Lily had "better be in Slytherin."

One of the boys, James, says he'd leave if he were Sorted into
Slytherin. Sirius, sitting across from him, says unhappily that his
whole family have been in Slytherin. After placating James by saying
that maybe he'll break the tradition, Sirius asks which House James
wants to be in. James raises an invisible sword and
says, "Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!"

Severus says that Gryffindor is okay for people who prefer brawn to
brains. Sirius taunts Severus, James roars with laughter, and Lily
suggests to Severus that they leave. James tries to trip Severus, and
either he or Sirius calls out, "See ya, Snivellus!"

The scene changes and Harry finds himself standing behind Severus as
the First Years wait to be Sorted. Severus groans as the Sorting Hat
places Lily in Gryffindor. She glances back sadly and refuses to sit
next to Sirius, who has scooted over to make room for her. Severus is
Sorted into Slytherin, and Prefect Lucius pats him on the back as he
sits down.

The memories skip to the end of fifth year, with Severus saying to
Lily that he thought they were best friends. Lily says emphatically
that they *are* but tells "Sev" that she doesn't like the people he
associates with, specifically Avery and Mulciber. She calls
Mulciber "creepy" and refers to some unspecified piece of magic that
Mulciber tried to perform on Mary McDonald as Dark Magic.

Severus changes the subject. "Potter and his mates" sneak out at
night and there's something weird about Lupin. When Lily suggests
that he's ill, Severus says skeptically, "Every month at the full
moon?" Lily coldly dismisses his "theory" and asks why he's obsessed
with them. He says that he's just trying to show that they're not as
wonderful as everyone seems to think

She calls him "ungrateful." She's heard that he was "sneaking" around
by the Whomping Willow and that James Potter saved him
from "whatever's down there." Severus protests angrily that Potter
wasn't playing the hero; he was trying to keep himself and his
friends out of trouble. After adding that he doesn't want Lily to be
made a fool of and that Potter fancies her, he becomes completely
inarticulate: "And he's not 
 everyone thinks 
 big Quidditch hero."

Lily concedes that James is "an arrogant toerag" but says that his
idea of humor isn't "*evil*" like Avery's and Mulciber's. Apparently
taking in only what she's said about James Potter, Severus walks away
with a spring in his step.

The next scene, all too familiar to Harry and to the reader, is
Snape's Worst Memory. As Severus, absorbed in reviewing the DADA
exam, wanders too near the beech tree where James and his friends are
sitting, Harry stands far away, not wanting to hear it all again. But
he can't help seeing Lily join the conversation, and he can't help
hearing Severus call her a "Mudblood."

The scene shifts to Severus's attempted apology and Lily's brusque
rejection. She says she's only come out because Mary informed her
that Severus intended to sleep outside the Gryffindor common room.

He says that "Mudblood" just slipped out. But Lily is tired of making
excuses for him when he won't give up his "precious little Death
Eater friends." She asks rhetorically, "You can't wait to join You-
Know-Who, can you?" He tries to respond but can't. She tells him that
she can't pretend any more: They've chosen different paths.

He tries again to apologize for calling her "Mudblood," but she says
that he uses that word for all Muggle-borns. Again, he tries to speak
but can't find the words, and she walks away.

The Pensieve skips to Snape as a young man of about twenty, waiting
on a windy hilltop. The leafless trees suggest that it's winter.
Snape's fear is so palpable that Harry feels it, too.

Dumbledore appears in a flash of light, and Snape falls to his knees,
disarmed. He pleads with Dumbledore not to kill him. Saying that he
has no such intention, Dumbledore asks what message Lord Voldemort
has for him.

Looking mad and desperate, Snape explains that he's come with a
warning, then corrects himself: "No, a request--please." When
Dumbledore asks what a Death Eater could want of him, Snape stammers
about the prediction, the Prophecy, Trelawney. He admits to revealing
all he heard to the Dark Lord, who thinks that the Prophecy refers
to "Lily Evans." Dumbledore reminds Snape that the Prophecy refers to
a boy born at the end of July, and Snape says, "You know what I mean!
He thinks it refers to her son!" He says that Voldemort intends
to "hunt her down" and "kill them all."

Dumbledore asks why he doesn't just request Voldemort to spare Lily
in exchange for her son. Snape confesses that he's already done that.
Dumbledore responds with, "You disgust me," and accuses Snape of not
caring about the deaths of Lily's husband and child as long as he can
have what he wants. Snape begs him to hide them all, to "keep her—
them—safe. Please." Dumbledore asks what Snape will give him in
return. Harry expects Snape to protest, but instead he promises to
do "anything."

The next memory shows the new Potions master slumped in a chair in
Dumbledore's office, making a sound like a wounded animal, as a grim-
faced Dumbledore stands over him. When Snape looks up, he appears to
Harry like a man who has "lived a hundred years of misery" since the
hilltop (though it can only be about a year).

Snape says that he thought Dumbledore was going to keep Lily safe,
and Dumbledore responds that the Potters put their faith in the wrong
person. He asks whether Snape did the same thing, hoping that
Voldemort would spare Lily, and adds that Lily's son survives. Snape
brushes away that information. Dumbledore tells him that the boy has
Lily's eyes, asking him if he remembers them, and Snape
bellows, "DON'T! Gone 
 dead." He wishes *he* were dead.

Dumbledore asks what use that would be and says that if Snape truly
loved Lily, he'll help protect her son so that she didn't die in
vain. Snape protests that the Dark Lord has gone, but Dumbledore says
that he'll return, placing Harry Potter in terrible danger.  Snape
agrees to help but asks for Dumbledore's word that he'll never tell
anyone, especially "Potter's son," what he's doing. Dumbledore sighs,
looking into Snape's anguished face, and agrees.

The scene shifts to sometime early in Harry's first year. Professor
Snape gives Dumbledore his picture of eleven-year-old Harry: a
mediocre, arrogant, impertinent rule-breaker who's delighted to find
himself famous. Dumbledore calmly counters with the reports of other
teachers that Harry is "modest, likeable, and reasonably talented."
Snape, he says, sees what he expects to see. He asks Snape to keep an
eye on Quirrell for him.

We skip to the night of the Yule Ball. Snape reports, as in GoF, that
Karkaroff's Mark is becoming darker, just like his own. He adds that
Karkaroff is panicking, fearing retribution from the Death Eaters for
the help he gave the Ministry after Voldemort's fall, and that
Karkaroff intends to flee if the Dark Mark burns. Dumbledore asks
whether Snape is tempted to join him, and Snape replies that he's not
such a coward. Dumbledore agrees that Snape is a far braver man than
Karkaroff. Adding, "You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon," he
leaves Snape looking "stricken."

The scene moves to Dumbledore's office. It's night, sometime between
the end of OoP and "Spinner's End." Dumbledore is sagging,
semiconscious, in the headmaster's chair, his right hand blackened.
Muttering incantations, Snape points his wand at Dumbledore's injury,
at the same time pouring a goblet full of potion down Dumbledore's
throat with his left hand. He demands to know why Dumbledore put on a
ring that he must have known was cursed. Harry sees Marvolo's ring,
its stone cracked, lying on the desk beside the Sword of Gryffindor.
Dumbledore admits to being a fool and sorely tempted, but when Snape
asks what tempted him, he evades the question.

Telling Dumbledore it's a miracle he survived to return to Hogwarts,
Snape adds that he's trapped the curse temporarily in Dumbledore's
hand.  Dumbledore examines his injured hand, tells Snape that he's
done very well, and asks conversationally how long he has to live.
Snape estimates the time at a year but says that the curse can't be
halted permanently; it will strengthen over time.

Angry that Dumbledore didn't summon him sooner, Snape asks if
Dumbledore thought that destroying the ring with the Sword of
Gryffindor would break the curse. Dumbledore changes the subject,
saying that his impending death can be used to thwart Voldemort's
plan to have Draco murder him. Snape informs him that Voldemort
expects Draco to fail and that he's punishing the Malfoy family for
Lucius's "recent failures." When Dumbledore asks whether Voldemort
expects Snape to kill him if Draco fails, Snape hesitantly admits
that he thinks so. He confirms Dumbledore's suspicion that Voldemort
plans to take over Hogwarts and gives Dumbledore his word that he'll
do everything he can to protect the students if that should happen.

Despite Snape's protests that Draco now sees him as usurping Lucius's
position, Dumbledore expects him to find out what Draco is up to by
offering him help and guidance. Then Dumbledore drops his bombshell:
The only way to save Draco from Voldemort's vengeance is for Snape to
kill Dumbledore himself.

The retort is classic Snape: "Would you like me to do it now? Or
would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?" He asks why
Dumbledore doesn't just let Draco kill him. Dumbledore expresses
concern for Draco's soul, prompting Snape to ask, "And my soul,
Dumbledore? Mine?"

Dumbledore says that only Snape himself knows whether saving an old
man from pain and humiliation would harm his soul and confesses that
he'd prefer a quick, painless death to being tortured by Bellatrix or
torn by Greyback's teeth. At last, Snape nods curtly and Dumbledore
thanks him.

Fade to Snape and Dumbledore strolling on the Hogwarts grounds. Snape
wants to know what Dumbledore is doing with Harry in their evenings
together. He complains that Dumbledore trusts Harry but doesn't trust
him. Dumbledore says that it's not a matter of trust. Harry needs
certain information "to do what he needs to do," and Dumbledore
doesn't want that information anywhere near Voldemort.

Snape points out angrily that he spends time with Voldemort only
because Dumbledore orders him to. Dumbledore praises Snape for
following his orders so well, acknowledging the constant danger in
which Snape places himself and saying that he would trust that job to
no one else. He succinctly outlines Snape's duties as a double
agent: "To give Voldemort what appears to be valuable information
while withholding the essentials." Snape is still dissatisfied.
Dumbledore, he says, is confiding crucial information to Harry who,
unlike Snape, can't use Occlumency to conceal it from Voldemort, and,
worse still, has a direct link to Voldemort's mind.

Dumbledore informs him that Voldemort has found sharing Harry's mind
an extremely painful experience that he won't care to repeat. He
speaks of Voldemort's pained soul in contact with Harry's pure one
and, in answer to Snape's protest that they were talking of minds,
says that, in the case of Harry and Voldemort, mind and soul can't be
distinguished. Changing the subject, he says bluntly, "After you have
killed me, Severus—"

Severus, however, has had enough and snarls at Dumbledore, "You
refuse to tell me everything, yet you expect that small favor of me!"
He says that Dumbledore takes too much for granted and maybe he's
changed his mind. Dumbledore reminds him that he's given his word,
but Snape is mutinous. Changing tactics, Dumbledore tells him to come
to his office at eleven. He promises that Snape will know then that
he, Dumbledore, has confidence in him.

In Dumbledore's office for the eleven o'clock meeting, Snape sits
still and silent as Dumbledore walks around him, telling him that
Harry must not know what he's about to say until the last moment;
otherwise, he may not find the strength to do what he has to do.
(What that task is Dumbledore does not reveal.) He tells the
astonished Snape that sometime after his death, Voldemort will fear
for Nagini's life. At that point, it will be safe to tell Harry that
when the Killing Curse rebounded on Voldemort because of Lily's
sacrifice, a fragment of Voldemort's soul "latched itself" onto
Harry's, giving him the ability to speak Parseltongue and a
connection with Voldemort's mind. As long as that soul fragment
remains lodged inside Harry, protected by him, Voldemort cannot die.

Harry feels as if he's watching the two men through a tunnel. Snape,
too, is stunned. "So the boy 
 the boy must die?"

"And Voldemort himself must do it," Dumbledore informs him.

After a long silence, Snape says that he thought they were protecting
the boy for Lily. Dumbledore says that they've done so because it was
essential to teach Harry and let him try his strength. He fears that
the connection between Harry and Voldemort is getting stronger and
states his conviction that Harry will have "arranged matters" so that
when he goes to meet his death, Voldemort will truly die.

Snape is horrified. When Dumbledore asks how many people Snape has
watched die, Snape responds, "Lately, only those whom I could not
save." He accuses Dumbledore of using him, pointing out that he's
lied and spied and placed himself in mortal peril to keep Lily
Potter's son safe. And now Dumbledore tells him that the boy has
been "raised like a pig for slaughter."

Touched, Dumbledore asks whether Snape has come to care for the boy
after all.

"*For him?*" shouts Snape. "Expecto Patronum!" The doe Patronus
bursts from Snape's wand and Dumbledore's eyes fill with tears.

The scene shifts to Snape conversing with Dumbledore's portrait,
which tells him that he'll have to reveal the date of Harry's
departure from the Dursleys' house and plant the idea of decoys by
Confunding Mundungus. He says that he's counting on Snape to play his
part convincingly if he's forced to take part in the chase, or
Hogwarts will be left to the "mercy" of the Carrows.

Next, Snape sits facing Mundungus in an unfamiliar tavern,
concentrating as he gives a dazed Mundungus the details of the decoy
plan—identical Potters and Polyjuice potion—and orders Mundungus to
present the suggestion as his own idea, forgetting that he heard it
from Snape. Mundungus murmurs that he understands.

Then Harry finds himself flying beside Snape on a broomstick at
night, accompanied by hooded Death Eaters, following Lupin and the
Polyjuiced George. As a Death Eater points his wand at Lupin's back,
Snape aims at the Death Eater's wand hand and yells "Sectumsempra!"
But the spell misses, blasting off George's ear.

A moment later, Snape is kneeling in Sirius Black's bedroom, crying
silently. He reads the letter from Sirius to Lily, tucks the second
page containing her signature and a few words about Dumbledore inside
his robes, and tears off the portion of the photo showing Lily,
leaving the first page and the torn photograph on the floor.

Now headmaster, Snape stands talking to Portrait Phineas, who tells
him that the Trio are camping in the Forest of Dean. Phineas refers
to Hermione as "the Mudblood," and Snape reprimands him sharply.
Phineas corrects himself, informing Snape that "the Granger girl"
mentioned the place as she opened her bag.

Portrait Dumbledore instructs Snape to deliver the Sword of
Gryffindor to Harry, reminding him that it "must be taken under
conditions of need and valor" and warning him that Harry must not
know that Snape delivered it in case Voldemort sees into Harry's
mind. He tells Snape that Harry will know what to do with the sword
but gives no further explanation. Snape takes the sword from a hidden
cavity beside the portrait and tells him not to worry; he has a plan.

Snape leaves, and Harry rises out of the Pensieve into exactly the
same room. It seems to him as if Snape has just walked out the door.


Discussion Questions:

1.  Why do you think that JKR (or the narrator) refers to Snape
as "the Prince" here and in "The Flight of the Prince" in HBP?

2. Voldemort gives the Hogwarts staff one hour to "dispose of [their]
dead with dignity" and treat the injured while he waits in the
Forbidden Forest. Assuming that he means what he says, how do you
think he expects them to "dispose of" the dead?

3.  Lupin and Tonks lie "pale and still and peaceful-looking,
apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling." This
description seems to echo that of the dead Dumbledore in HBP--
"Dumbledore's eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms
and legs, he might have been sleeping"—and that of his peacefully
sleeping portrait. What do you think JKR is saying about death
through these descriptions? Do they seem to refer to death in general
or only to these particular deaths?

4. Harry blurts out "Dumbledore!" and the door to the stairway
leading to the headmaster's office opens. When and why do you think
the password changed and who or what changed it?

5. Little Severus is described as "stringy," the same word that the
narrator uses to describe both the teenage Severus and Theodore Nott
in OoP. Did you think of Theo when you read the description of little
Severus, and, if so, what connection, if any, did you see between the
two Slytherin boys?

6. What do you make of the description of Severus as "batlike" in his
oversized coat? Why does JKR continually connect Snape with bats?

7. Since Lily has no way of knowing about prejudice against Muggle-
borns in the WW, why do you think she's worried that being a Muggle-
born might "make a difference"? Given Severus's remark that Lily can
do "loads" of magic, might the two children be talking about magical
ability rather than prejudice against Muggle-borns? If not, why would
he make that remark in that context?

8. Severus tells Lily that only wizards who "do really bad stuff" are
sent to Azkaban. What does this remark reveal about his sense of good
and evil and age nine or ten?

9. Severus is obviously lying when he denies dropping the tree branch
on Petunia, but neither his words nor his "scared and defiant"
expression make clear whether the magic is accidental or deliberate.
Which do you think it is and why? Why doesn't something similar
happen to James and Sirius in SWM where Severus is also wandless?

10. Why does Petunia call Lily a "freak" (the same word that she uses
in SS/PS some twenty years later)? What justification, if any, do you
see for her view that sending "weirdos" like Lily and Severus to
Hogwarts will protect the "normal people"? Do you see any connection
with the Statute of Secrecy?

11. How in the world did the Muggle Evanses get through the barrier
onto Platform 9 3/4 (or is this scene a Flint)?

12. James's words, "Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave,
wouldn't you?" mirror Draco's words about Hufflepuff in SS/PS. What
do you think that JKR is saying here about James and Draco or House
prejudice in general? And what's your reaction to James's imaginary
Sword of Gryffindor, raised in defense of chivalry?

13. Why doesn't JKR identify the boy who calls out, "See ya,
Snivellus"? Which boy do you think it was, and why do you think so?

14 What's the significance, if any, of Lucius Malfoy's patting
Severus's back? Why include that detail?

15. Lily's version of the so-called Prank—Severus "sneaking" around
the Shrieking Shack and being saved by James from "whatever's down
there" sounds a lot like Sirius's version in PoA except that everyone
in the PoA scene knows what's down there. Do you think that Sirius is
Lily's source? Why or why not? Why do you think she rejects
Severus's "theory" (obviously, that Lupin is a werewolf)?

16. Aside from not wanting to repeat a nine-page scene in detail, why
do you think JKR condenses Snape's worst memory to a single
paragraph? Is the tactic effective? (The relevant paragraph is on
page 675 of the Scholastic edition and page 542 of the Bloomsbury
edition.)  Note especially the last line, "Distantly, he heard Snape
shout at her in his humiliation and his fury, the unforgivable word:
Mudblood."

17.  The adult Snape is marvelously articulate, often brilliantly
sardonic and sometimes even poetic, yet the teenage Severus is often
at a loss for words, and even the young adult Snape seems tongue-tied
in the hilltop scene with Dumbledore. What do you think happened in
the twelve or so years between the hilltop and Harry's first year at
Hogwarts to turn Snape into the snarky, sarcastic Potions master that
we encounter in SS/PS?

18. What do you think Dumbledore means when he tells Snape, "If I
know [Harry], he will have arranged matters so that when he does set
out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort"?

19. We get only a few hints of what Harry is feeling as he witnesses
these scenes, and yet he goes from hating Snape and wanting revenge
against him to publicly defending him and ultimately naming his
second son after him and Dumbledore. Aside from the shock of Snape's
death, which scenes do you feel had the most impact on Harry's change
of heart and why?

20. Why did JKR choose these particular memories for this chapter?
Why did *Snape* choose them?

21. Did this chapter change or confirm your view of Snape? What
surprised you? What disappointed you? How did you feel at the end of
the chapter the first time through?

22. I've deliberately omitted questions about the much-discussed
later memories involving Dumbledore and Snape. Please add any
questions comments about this chapter that you'd like us to discuss.

Carol


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