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Harry Potter SPOILERS!

Read this post ONLY if you have finished reading "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". And this, my friends, is why all forms of book series are dangerous things! Thank the Maker that "His Dark Materials" was simply a trilogy. "Alvin Maker" isn't done yet. I haven't seen a copy of "The Crystal City" here (it's what I get for not buying it when I saw it in the States).

From an Amazon.com review that my sister came across.
SECRETS REVEALED! THE DUMBLEDORE-SNAPE CONNECTION, August 9, 2005 Reviewer: Adira Rotstein "Scifi Degby" (Carter is everywhere)

I think I have figured something out. Dumbledore is not dead. Snape is.

Dumbledore and Snape used the transfiguration potion to switch places. I'm suspecting it was shortly after Dumbledore destroyed the horcruxring, before school started after Snape made the UnBreakable vow toMalfoy's mother to either help Malfoy kill Dumbledore or kill Dumbledore himself.

Clue 1: Snape stops teaching potions, begins teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Dumbledore is not great at potions but against the darkarts he is number 1#. This is why Slughorn must be brought in to teach potions.

Clue 2: The conversation that Hagrid overhears on p. 405-406. Snape andDumbledore secret meeting in the forest. Snape and Dumbledore argue and Snape says he doesn't want to do something anymore. This makes completesense if Snape is really Dumbledore and Dumbledore is really Snape, i.e.Dumbledore is having second thoughts about going through with the ruse.

Clue 3: Dumbledore brags about his intelligence and abilities throughout his meetings with Harry-- this is very unDumbledore like and moreSnape-like.

CLUE 4: Whenever Harry brings up his suspicions to anyone, everyone from the Order-- Lupin, Mr. Weasley, etc. all say "I trust Snape completely."Of course they do, Snape IS Dumbledore.

[don't ask me what happened to CLUE 5 - Calai]

CLUE 6: Dumbledore is not fazed when Harry tells him about Malfoy's discussion with Snape at Christmas. This is because, being Snape healready knows all about Malfoy plotting to kill Dumbledore because Malfoy's mother told him in the beginning.

Clue 7: Harry had to get the memory out of Slughorn, something Dumbledore should have very easily been able to do on his own, but if he was really Snape as Dumbledore, he might have been afraid that Slughorn would discover him.

Clue 8 MOST REVEALING: When Dumbledore drinks Voldemort's potion in the cave to get to the locket the potion does something-- I believe it is a potion that makes people relive their worst memories. "His face was twitiching as though...dreaming a horrible dream." Snape is reliving his past with Voldemort. When "Dumbledore" says "I don't want...Don't make me..." he is not referring to Harry feeding him the potion, he is refering to Voldemort forcing him to reveal the prophecy. "No I don't want to...let me go..." etc. Then he screams-- which is Voldemort torturing him in his past and says "No, no I can't." And then "It's all my fault, all my fault....Don't hurt them, don't hurt them, please, please it's my fault, hurt me instead..." -- then after when he begins saying "No no not that, I'll do anything"-- further reliving being tortured at the hands of Voldemort, so Voldemort could extract the information on Lily and James Potter Snape overheard at the Hog's head. Also Snape doesn't share the potion. Nowhere does it say it has to bedrunk by one person. If they each drank half the effects wouldn't be so bad, BUT Snape has made the unbreakable vow, which means if he doesn't kill Dumbledore he himself will die. He is not going to kill Dumbledore so it doesn't matter if he drinks the whole potion because he is going to die anyway.

CLUE 9: When they return to Hogsmeade "Dumbledore" says he has to see Prof.Snape and keeps demanding to see him-- it is because he has to tell the real Dumbledore what happened.

CLUE 8: When they see the Dark Mark in the sky it acts like a stimulanton Dumbledore, giving him energy and drawing him to it. Snape, a former death-eater will always be magically drawn to the mark.

CLUE 9: On p. 586 he says to Malfoy, "Killing is not nearly as easy asthe innocent believe"-- if he truly was Dumbledore-- someone who had never killed-- how would he know? Only Snape would know what it felt like to kill having been a death-eater.

CLUE 10: I believe the Half-blood prince book was given to Harry on purpose. It was so he could improve his skills for the coming battle. If Snape taught him in person, as we found out in the last book things wouldn't go well and Harry wouldn't learn, because of their personal animosity.

CLUE 11:The way "Dumbledore" talks to Malfoy-- as if he truly knew him.

CLUE 12: Snape arrives on the scene -p. 595-- Dumbledore says"Severus..." and Harry notices how "for the first time, Dumbledore was pleading." The real Snape (as Dumbledore) is pleading with the real Dumbledore to kill him quickly. The hatred on fake Snape's face before he kills fake Dumbledore is a hatred of the dark magic he is now forced to preform-- Real Dumbledore has never done the Avada Kedavra curse before.

CLUE 13: Now that "Snape" seems to have killed "Dumbledore" the death-eaters will fully trust him and take him back with them. Thus thereal Dumbledore will now go undercover into Voldemort's lair, where hewill be able to be close enough to Voldemort to kill him or more likely help Harry kill him.

CLUE 14: p. 604-- "Snape" actually has a chance to kill Harry -- but doesn't. The whip-like thing hits Harry across the face which hurts but is not a deadly curse-- like he would've used if he really wanted tokill Harry.

CLUE 15: p. 609 When Harry gets to the locket he sees it isn't the real Slytherin locket. Yet the locket they took out of the fountain seemed to be the real one. The real locket was taken by the real Dumbledore. The note was written by the real Dumbledore.

The initials R.A.B. do not refer to one person, but are the first initials of the first names of some surviving members of the Order ofthe Phoenix-- R- for Remus Lupin A- for Albus Dumbledore B-- could beBill-- but the RAB theory I am not certain of -- Regardless I think the word "Albus" is what the A stands for.

[My own theory is that R.A.B. stands for Regulus A. Black, Sirius' brother and a Death Eater, who supposedly died in the service of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I do believe that the locket was hidden by Kreacher somewhere in the House of Black - Calai]

CLUE 16: The Felix Felicis-- when Ron and Hermione say it must not have worked because the fight at the castle seemed to have gone all wrong--actually it went perfectly-- it was all supposed to happen this way to allow the real Dumbledore to get into Voldemort's lair.

CLUE 17: No one satisfactorily ever really explains why Dumbledore trusts Snape so completely. It is because they've been in on this plan together possibly having intended it for years. Snape came over to thegood side after Voldemort forced him to confess the prophecy he heard, under extreme torture. Afterwards he was so consumed by guilt, especially over Lily's death, who was the only person at Hogwart's who was ever nice to him that he left Voldemort [that's Miggy's theory, too - Calai].

posted by Calai @ 4:45 PM