The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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I do wonder what's up with Peter Pettigrew rooming with Snape.
I completely forgot about that.
I guess that's my biggest fear for Book 7, if it is indeed the end of the series. So many little things to be tied up, and I want them all. Not just the most important ones, or the ones related to Book 7's plot. I want to know what was up with Petunia in OotP, and ... well, crap, now I can't remember anything else.
On DUMBLEDORE BEING DEAD DEAD DEAD ... I'd like to raise a question I don't hear asked explictly very often -- if Dumbledore knew the DaDA position was cursed, and that no teacher ever stayed in the job for more than a year, then A.) Did he deny Snape the job because he KNEW that, and B.) Did he let him have the job because he knew what was going to happen?
if Dumbledore knew the DaDA position was cursed
Hmmm, Dumbledore's own means of getting rid of wizards he disliked. Dumbledore is just a bit creepy, isn't he?
I think he denied Snape the position knowing the Snape would prolly leave the school as the others have and wanted him at H'warts to keep an eye on him. I also think he gave it to him their 6th year knowing that he would probably not be able to teach the following year.
But wait! Wasn't Quirrell there for at least a few years?
I smell a RetCon.
What he sees as "hate and revulsion" on Snape's face at the moment he's about to kill Dumbledore might actually be anguish and anger, that Dumbledore is making him do this horrible thing.
Nice.
I'm in the camp that thinks S and D planned what happened, as a way to firmly establish Snape's allegiance to Voldemort so he can go deep undercover. However, I'm not totally convinced that Dumbledore is dead. After all, we never actually "saw" his body after the attack, so we don't know who or what was under the robe Hagrid was carrying. Feigning death could spur others to finding hitherto hidden depths of strength or "goodness", while also giving Dumbledore the freedom to pursue the other Horcruxes and Voldemort without pursuit.
Then, of course, there is "R.A.B."; who is it and what else have they done against Voldemort?
But wait! Wasn't Quirrell there for at least a few years?
The first book says he was at the school, but I'm not sure that it directly says he was teaching DADA. I just figured that Lord V lifted the curse for one of his own.
R.A.B. -- Regulus Black, Sirius' brother. The story is that LV killed him or had him killed after Regulus tried to get out of the Death Eaters. So, it fits that he would "betray" LV by destroying one of the horcruxes.
But wait! Wasn't Quirrell there for at least a few years?
I vaguely recall something about him only just have gotten the job, which was why Snape was freshly mad at him.
R.A.B. -- Regulus Black, Sirius' brother.
A nice theory and probably the one she'll go with but we'll see.