Under the influence

[cubfanbudwoman]

SSSusan:
> > ...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....would have any connection whatsoever to 
> > things Snape  would have once said.
 
Eloise:
> I think perhaps you just answered that yourself.
> It's a *Potion*. Now I'm not good at time lines, but I assume this 
> was brewed before Snape went back to Dumbledore. Perhaps Dumbledore 
> realises who concocted it and that is what triggers that precise 
> memory. That would add another lovely twist of irony to the scene 
> on the Tower.


SSSusan again:
I just ran across a proposition at HPfGU which just might fit here?  
I'm not sure it's appropriate to cut & paste a whole lot of someone 
else's words, so I'll provide the link 
[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137771 ] and 
then say that, essentially, what Carol is suggesting is that the 
locket-bearing basin in the cave is a pensieve which Voldy filled 
with "poisoned thoughts and memories that create both physical agony 
and mental anguish."

Anyhoo, just thought that was a fascinating possibility.  Of course, 
it would take us fully away from the possibility that those were 
Snape's words, but it could at least explain why they didn't seem to 
sound quite like things DD would say either....

Siriusly Snapey Susan