Under the influence

[eloise_herisson]

Kneasy:

> The Cave potion (Catherine suggested it might be extract of 
Dementor - a
> pretty neat idea IMO) is dredging up unhappy memories resulting 
from the
> invidious choices he had to make and DD is in the throes of guilt 
and remorse.


Thanks for the link, Barry. I remember that post now (I think I 
caught up with it, between washing and repacking for five, on my one 
day at home between the two legs of our holiday, so forgive me for 
not immediately recalling it). It goes without saying that I nearly 
mentioned in what I posted that I knew you'd have a Puppetmaster!DD 
angle on it. 

I still don't think DD would say "I know I did wrong". I think he 
knows he's made *mistakes* and I know the choices he's had to make 
must have involved choosing the lesser of two evils. But that's not 
exactly the same thing. Regrets, I'm sure he has more than a few, but 
the contented look on his dead face surely indicates that overall he 
was at peace with himself.

My theory may be right or it may be wrong, but if I'm right it has 
the advantage of being something that might actually give us a clue 
to a mystery that JKR implies will be solved next book (I don't for 
one minute believe that DD telling Harry about Snape's remorse is 
supposed to be the proof). And of course with DD dead, we have 
practical problems in finding out exactly what that proof was. It 
appeals to me that we will find out that we've already seen the 
proof. Anyway, hypotheses are for tearing apart, so by all means let 
rip!

~Eloise