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[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> SSSusan earlier:
 
> SSSusan:
> YES.  I think you're absolutely correct that this kind of
leak/juicy  tidbit/"Damn! Why did she spoil THAT?" comes out 
of JKR's true  interest in her fans.  I really do think that
sometimes she starts to feel a bit sorry for us, or concerned for 
the time we're  "wasting,"  once she realizes we're starting to go
too far afield in an area. 
I  mean, if she's aware of the effort & investment some people put
into  developing their ideas, and she knows they're wrong, isn't it
just possible that Jo's a wee bit concerned that she doesn't want a
whole  slew of majorly disappointed fans out there at the end, if the
truth  is that there's nothing at all quite so elaborate as the
theory proposes?  
<snip>
> 'Course, if this were true, I'd have expected Jo to have personally 
called Pippin by now over ESE!Lupin. ;-)  (Kidding, Pippin!  I'm 
*kidding*!)

Pippin:
Well, if I weren't sworn to secrecy...(Kidding. I'm *kidding*!) Of
course the other reason she might not debunk ESE!Lupin is that it's
true...<veg>

But I like Susan's idea about Bella having the locket, combined with
mine about Voldemort discovering the theft. Suppose that Voldie
entrusts the locket to Bella. She throws her tongue a bit (she is,
after all, Draco's auntie) and Regulus guesses what it is. He steals
it,putting a magically disguised fake in its place, and conceals the
orginal at GP. He tries to destroy it, but only succeeds in grinding 
off the Slytherin mark before the henchmen of doom catch up with 
him.

The theft goes undiscovered until after Voldemort's return, when he 
discovers that Lucius has blown the Diary, and decides he'd better see
whether Bella's horcrux is okay. Well, it isn't. But Voldemort is
confident that a pup like Regulus couldn't manage to destroy a
horcrux in  the little time he had. The greater danger is that someone
besides Bella will realize that he's made more than one and go 
hunting. So he uses the fake to set a trap, which Dumbledore walked 
into. 

Of course it won't do to punish Bella openly, since he doesn't want
anyone to know that the locket's a fake. But she finds that Master
doesn't seem to have the confidence in her that he once did, and
attributes this to Lucius's failures. 

This has the desirable side effect, from my point of view, of
exonerating Severus. If there's no antidote to the green goo, then
his action on the Tower, whatever it was, is pardonable. 

This fits with the whole Snape Harry jigsaw -- on the one hand, we
have Harry, pure of heart and sound of soul, but who isn't going to be
bringing home the All Wizard Dueller's Cup any time soon. On the 
other, we have Snape, who could well have a shelf of them concealed 
behind the slimy things floating in jars (just learned that these were
traditionally found in doctors' offices -- the specimens, that is,
not the trophies), but whose heart is MIA and whose soul is tattered 
if not torn.


Anyway, you get the picture. What Harry's going to need, if he ever
does dispose of the horsecluckses and proceed to battle with LV, is
backup. Which, as I said in a post over on TOL, explains the Gleam.

When Dumbledore heard that Voldemort had used Harry's blood, he
knew that a major obstacle to  his plan to reinsert Snape  had been
removed. Voldemort would not be so annoyed over Snape's intervention 
to save Harry three years before that he would kill Snape out of hand,
without ever listening to the carefully spun excuses Snape had
prepared. 

Snape's action would seem instead fortuitous -- saving Harry's
precious blood for his master even  before Voldemort himself had 
realized its  value. Another example of fortune favoring Lord 
Voldemort.

I don't think Dumbledore planned to die. But he might well have
planned to fake his death. He would know that eventually Voldemort
would demand that Snape *who knows the prophecy*,  do 
*something* to prove he did not see Team Dumbledore as stronger.
Merely sniping away at Harry in classes would not be enough.

The plan was not to prove Snape's loyalty to LV -- as Dumbledore 
says, nothing could do that. The plan was to demonstrate thoroughly
and unconditionally that Snape was *not* loyal to Dumbledore or
Harry. IMO, Dumbledore didn't die the way he did to secure Snape's 
position as a spy. He did it to secure Snape's position as  Harry's 
backup in the final showdown. 


Pippin