HBP interview

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, ewe2 <ewe2 at 4...> wrote:

SO, I SHOULD BE STUDYING FOR MY EXAMS

BUT CONCERTI ALL START SOUNDING THE SAME AFTER A WHILE

BESIDES, IT'S SO MISERABLY HUMID THAT MY FLOORING IS WARPING

IT COULD ALWAYS BE WORSE, I KNOW
 
> Not really. She ducks the question rather expertly. If we want to 
> think ESE!Snape we have something to point at, but if we want to 
> think Suspicious!Harry we also have something to point at. Trusting!
> DD has been around for a while, too. If you mean that DD really 
> does *not* have a confidante in Snape, it does tip the scales, but 
> we don't know enough to be sure.

RightHandMan!Snape has been a popular theory before, but it's pretty 
nuked by this.  It is interesting to go back and think of things now 
with fewer assumptions that Snape and DD are working hand in hand.  
Potentially very damaging to a certain appliance, I think.  I like 
the idea of Snape being more of a loose canon and DD playing more of 
it by ear, though.

>> She also blows some theories about Lily's sacrifice out of the 
>> water onto harsh dry land to wither and be forgotten...well, never 
>> forgotten.
> 
> Yes, but...she really _doesn't_ answer the question. WHY did Voldy 
> give her a choice? What's the point, if all he was intending to do 
> was to kill her after Harry? A lot of waffle about James rushing 
> in, but that wasn't the question.

He gave her a choice because he was at least making a go at honoring 
a promise to one of his favorite DEs, who'd tipped him off about the 
Potters being useful in the first place.  Sure, when she's stubborn 
he says 'forget about it' and just kills her, but hey--he tried, what 
more could a lowly minion want?

I speak, of course, about the 'Snape wanted Lily for himself' theory, 
Too EWWW to be TREWWW.  Which just got a big shot of support in the 
bum.

-Nora (takes a study break because too much Corelli at once can be 
fatal)