I don't know if this has already been posted in this thread, but in a recent interview JK Rowling confirmed that Dumbledore is dead and she confirmed Snape is still a good guy. Coupled with the clues in book 6 and Rowling's interview answers there is the implication that Dumbledore planned his death with Snape. ✅
Re: NEWBIE ALERT!! NEWBIE W/VALID SPECULATIONS!!!!
Will, read this and the following post from it. It's fantastic ✅
Originally posted by Whorecrux
ok...i'm totally new to the site, but...not to HP. that being said, i offer forth the following speculations:Severus Snape is NOT a Death Eater.
i know, i know, what the **** am i thinking; he got Sirius whacked, he offed Dumbledore. Hear me out.
1)In Sorcerer's Stone, he repeatedly saved Harry's life. Disregard his explanation from Chapter 2 of Half-Blood Prince; it doesn't pan out logically. "I stopped the Dark Lord because he was possessed by a greedy weakling?" let's be real.
2)He taught Harry Occlumency.
3)He showed Cornelius Fudge his Dark Mark when fudge was the Minister of Magic. ballsy.
4)The Order was always more well-informed than the Death Eaters; meaning Snape wasn't really putting his heart into spying for Voldemort; meaning he's on Harry's side.
5)He tried to help save Sirius, and Harry. Note that he took Harry's cryptic message about Padfoot being in the place it's hidden straight to the Order and informed that at once...plus he went to look for Harry in the Forbidden Forest, ALONE, when he realized what Harry had done.
6)he slipped Umbridge the fake Veritaserum to help Harry.
7)he was as amazed at Barty Crouch Jr.'s resurfacing as anyone. not to mention ahd no clue crouch was robbing him. if he thought Snape still a Death eater, wouldn't Barty Crouch, whom Voldemort repeatedly acknowledges as his most faithful DE ever in Goblet of Fire, have told him the plan and procured help the easy way?
8)he didn't punish Karkaroff personally for fleeing; even encouraged it; NOT actions of Voldemort's right hand.
9)he let Harry get away with the Half-Blood Prince's book w/o confiscating it.
10)he lied to Umbridge rather than reveal Sirius's wherabouts.
11)he always had a potion ready to cure Dumbledore or anyone else if needed.
12)Voldemort himself knew that there was a traitor in the Death Eaters, and who it was. This was not Legilimency; it was basic deduction from information gathered by Wormtail and Crouch Jr. and delivered to the Dark Lord.
13)and the grand capper: if you follow the book VERY closely; didn't something seem out of place? Dumbledore knew about Draco Malfoy...and about Snape's meetings with him...he and Snape often shared the same Pensieve...Dumbledore was an even more accomplished Legilimens than even Voldemort...anyways, to the point. Dumbledore was old, wounded, poisoned, and dying, and he knew it. After getting and destroying the second Horcrux, he pretty well knew he was finished. And he knew full well what Draco was up to; He only asked to humor him, to make him proud, to show him what he could acoomplish once Dumbledore decided to pop the question about switching sides. Now isn't it likely that Snape and Dumbledore had a secret plan? Dumbledore took Harry away to assure his safety; Snape told Draco to go ahead with whatever he was going to do; then Snape ran along once "alerted" and "joined" his "fellow" Death Eaters. but didn't you notice how he never threatened the Unbreakable Vow he made? never tried to hurt Malfoy OR Harry? in fact, made DAMN SURE that NO ONE hurt Harry in the fray? how he seemed to be guiding Malfoy...speaking of, Dumbledore was disarmed way too easily by Malfoy. almost HAD to've been staged. all he would've had to do was a little "Accio wand!" and Draco would've been ****ed.and Dumbledore begging Snape for mercy....lot of people have told me how they don't feel that makes sense. of course it doesn't, you hyena's ass. he wasn't begging for mercy; he was begging Snape to release him, to finish him, and to guide and protect Draco and Harry and try to unite them against Voldemort. Come to think of it...WHY were people whom Snape had had no formal contact with for almost 15 years so terrified of him at once glance when he first came out to see Dumbledore defenseless? no, no, not because he was Voldemort's golden boy; everyone knows that each man is as expendable as the next to Mr. Riddle dependent upon his or her current status and reliability. they feared him 'cause they didn't trust him. not to mention, if you think there's a flaw in my argument, i bring you my triumphant finale: Snape walked out of the front door with a full plan in mind. No way he could've unless everything was preordained. c'mon, if Flitwick had JUST inofrmed him there were Death Eaters, would his first instinct have been to go and find Malfoy, whom he already KNEW to be there, and Dumbledore? or to fight what was at hand, threatening the students? no, no, it was Dumbledore's Last Set-up. I think Book 7 will prove once and for all how vital Snape is to Harry's success. (Oh and let's not forget he dropped Harry that little clue about "keeping his mouth shut and his mind closed"😉...oh and one more bit to add...Snape WOULD be the perfect successor to Dumbledore. He hates Voldemort, and he is, behind Voldemort, the greatest wizard still living at the end of Half Blood Prince. What other "Death Eater" had such success in blocking Harry's spells and stymying him outright? Harry thwarted all the others.
ne ways, that's the end of that theory.
on to theory number 2:
the initials R.A.B. on the fake Horcrux:
personally, i'm inclined to believe those are the initials of Sirius's brother, Regulus Black. why? simple. One, Order of the Phoenix describes a heavy locket that no one could open sitting around in the Black family house on Grimmauld Place. the real Horcrux, as well as the fake, were lockets. perfect switch, right? two, No other character mentioned in the series seems to match the initials, except Hermione's unceremoniously dismissed assumptions of Bungs and Axebanger. Three, we know Regulus was killed for trying to leave the Death Eaters. What if that was his reason? Maybe, like his parents, he became a little less convinced of Voldemort's stability upon learning of what lengths his Lord would go to for power. Mayhap he even tried to acquire information to those links. mayhap he succeeded, as well. And Mayhap he was murdered not for trying to leave the Death Eaters, but because a livid and terrified Voldemort discovered that regulus knewso much...even if he never found out WHAT, specifically, regulus knew, or that he had stolen a horcrux. the only missing piece of the puzzle to back this claim is not knowing for sure what Regulus Black's middle name, or at least initial, is.
2 other possibilites: Borgin, whose first and middle names have not yet been revealed, and we know had many dealings with a young Tom Riddle and could possibly have began trailing him and finding out what he was up to;
OR
3)the not-unlikely possibility that Rowling is going to introduce one more brand-new character into the series in the closing volume.
and speculative topic number THREE!
the Horcruxes
we know Tom Riddle's diary is destroyed
we know the Gaunt family ring is destroyed
*the locket of Salazar Slytherin MAY be destroyed; the cryptic note within the fake Horcrux indicates as muchand of course; the final 3 Horcruxes
all of them seem to have been found in places that meant something significant to Tom Marvolo Riddle, pre-Lord Voldemort, so:
1)Helga Hufflepuff's cup:
2)Nagini
3)an unknown object; although whatever it is probably belonged either to Godric Gryffindor or Rowena Ravenclawsuspicions:
the Gaunt ring was found in the Gaunt family home
Tom's diary was first entrusted to Lucius Malfoy, then shipped to Hogwarts
Merope gaunt's locket was found, as was the fake Horcrux left behind, in the cave where young Tom Riddle tortured his fellow orphanage residentsideas...
i think one is in Borgin & Burke's. sue me.
we know Nagini never leaves Voldemort's side; which is going to make her the most difficult Horcrux to destroy, plus make her destroyer's intentions rather obvious if Voldemort catches Harry doing it
my guess for the final Horcrux would have to be...believe it or not...the bedroom that Tom Riddle slept in at the orphange he grew up in.~p.s.~ incidentally, what's with this "harry has to die to kill voldemort 'cause voldemort took his blood" bullshit? personally, i think Dumbledore's "look of triumph" from Goblet of Fire was about him knowing that good ol' Tom Riddle made his first real crucial mistake in assuming that Lily's protection could carry over to him. Wouldn't Harry's blood weaken Voldemort since he can't comprehend love, the emotion which causes him physical damage? i think Harry's blood will be his one great weakness and determine the outcome
Not true, (cf. JKR's statements on the text-version of here site, here).
Guys, this is my theory
Harry is in fact the last horcrux
proof:
The profecy stated that "The dark lord will mark him as his equal"
-he marked him as his equal by giving him a piece of his soul.
-That's why Harry can see from both Voldi's and the snake's eyes, because they are the only two parts of voldi's soul in live creatures.
-that's why harry got a bit of voldimort's powers
-that's why Harry always shows signs of good and evil within him
--he could've been in ether Gryffindor or Slytherin
-this is why their wands are made from the same phoenix
and thousands of other simularities u all know by heart...
Originally posted by braveniler58Now there's a thought shock
i think that there are actually three horcruxes destroyed. When Voldemort used Avada Kedavra on Harry, it rebounded and hit Voldemort. Why didn't the curse kill Voldermort? It destroyed the body, one of the parts of the soul? Maybe the unknown horcrux doesn't exist because it's been destroyed already.Just a theory.
JK Rowling was interviewed by a crowd, and was asked:
If you were to have dinner with any five characters of any of your books, who would it be?
She replied: “Harry… to apologize to him.”
Which solicited gasps and screams of “no!” from the audience. She then added that she would have Ron and Hermione. Here she paused saying “but I know who’s dead!”
(Full report here)
Originally posted by Diamonds
JK Rowling was interviewed by a crowd, and was asked:
If you were to have dinner with any five characters of any of your books, who would it be?
She replied: “Harry… to apologize to him.”
Which solicited gasps and screams of “no!” from the audience. She then added that she would have Ron and Hermione. Here she paused saying “but I know who’s dead!”
(Full report here)
Originally posted by Diamonds
JK Rowling was interviewed by a crowd, and was asked:
If you were to have dinner with any five characters of any of your books, who would it be?
She replied: “Harry… to apologize to him.”
Which solicited gasps and screams of “no!” from the audience. She then added that she would have Ron and Hermione. Here she paused saying “but I know who’s dead!”
(Full report here)
Originally posted by goddess_susu
Guys, this is my theory
Harry is in fact the last horcruxproof:
The profecy stated that "The dark lord will mark him as his equal"-he marked him as his equal by giving him a piece of his soul.
-That's why Harry can see from both Voldi's and the snake's eyes, because they are the only two parts of voldi's soul in live creatures.
-that's why harry got a bit of voldimort's powers
-that's why Harry always shows signs of good and evil within him
--he could've been in ether Gryffindor or Slytherin-this is why their wands are made from the same phoenix
and thousands of other simularities u all know by heart...