[the_old_crowd] Re: Under the influence

[susiequsie23]

Eloise:
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!


SSSusan:
Eloise, this is truly freaky.  I re-read that chapter for the first time last night, and I had the SAME thought -- that the words sounded like what Snape might say if he truly felt remorse for Lily & James' deaths.  

Of course, I can't for the life of me figure out how *this* situation -- drinking a potion that Voldemort presumably concocted & left there, trying to retrieve Voldemort's horslut -- would have any connection whatsoever to things Snape would have once said.  And I can't quite hear Snape being so... so... so emotional? forceful? in his expression of remorse and regret.  But the *content* of the words really did strike me as potentially fitting Snape if he's been L2DD!Snape [Loyal to Dumbledore] all along and if it was his role in leading Voldy to he Potters which made him turn away from Voldy.

Siriusly Snapey Susan


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