The HBP Post, almost totally non-spoilery

[timeripple]

Am still digesting, but have formed a few impressions and have a very few things to say. Starting with: Have a little faith, people! Even the wisest among us (ie, everybody who's not JKR) cannot see all ends. She knows what she's doing, and is fond of misleading her faithful readers in evil, tricksy ways. I sincerely doubt all is as it seems.

And now for the good stuff, my ridiculous, slightly spoilery suspicion that I've been harboring for ages: Some time between GoF and OotP, JKR read DT and was so amused by it that she put tributes in the books. The evidence is only mostly nonexistent: Cassandra Trelawney, when she hardly ever re-uses names. The WWW daydream right out of Passionate Trousers. Also, she secretly ships H/D. You know it to be true!

Comment away, or don't!

ETA: The comments and my replies WILL BE SPOILERY. Ye be warned!

Comments

[olivia-cochrane.livejournal.com]

On another note, things really could have gone quite differently-- here's my alternate scenario. Non-verbal spellcasting; Harry's not so good at it, so that excuses his inaction, but Snape is very, very good at it. So here's how things could have gone a hell of a lot better: Dumbledore uses Legilimency to let Snape know that Harry's there; I'm not sure exactly if you can plant images in other people's brains with it, but Voldemort can do it, and so I think Dumbledore could do it. Snape surreptitiously frees Harry, then non-verbally starts hexing all the Death Eaters, and Harry joins in, who will not be killed because he's wearing the Invisibility Cloak and, as we all know from his Quidditch matches, he has great reflexes. They could have had all those Death Eaters down for the count, without anybody dying. And even if one Death Eater had time to aim something at Dumbledore, Snape still could have jumped in the way; in this scenario, his cover is blown anyway, so he's numero uno on Voldemort's hit list, dead man walking. The only obstacle I can see to this turn of events is that Dumbledore is protecting Snape's undercover position because it will help immensely in Voldemort's defeat. Although I'm inclined not to care; at this point, I'd ten thousand times rather have Snape dead than Dumbledore.

[bertie-girl.livejournal.com]

I'd ten thousand times rather have Snape dead than Dumbledore.

He will be. Voldemort said so in GoF. Of course, we might not be so happy about it by the time it happens.

[olivia-cochrane.livejournal.com]

Well, he might have changed his mind. After all, killing Dumbledore will be a top credential where Voldemort is concerned.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeenteresting.