SPOILERS
Posting this to my jounral to be sure tags work.
Two quotes from the text which I think are VERY INTERESTING when you look at them together. One about Harry, one about Snape, both about... well...
p. 571.
Dumbledore has just said he doesn't want to take the potion.
"You... you can't stop, Professor," said Harry. "You've got to keep drinking, remember? You told me you had to keep drinking. Here..."
Hating himself, repulsed by what he was doing Harry forced the goblet back toward Dumbledore's mouth and...
you know the rest.
and of course the already infamous...
Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.
Hatred. Revulsion. I know people have already theorized that this was at what Snape HAD to do... not at Dumbledore... and I wanted desperately to beleive it. Looking at the word choice Rowling has used there, at that moment when Harry also faces that choice (whether he knows it or not) well... tricky tricky Jo.
::clings tighly to loyal!Snape theory::
Two quotes from the text which I think are VERY INTERESTING when you look at them together. One about Harry, one about Snape, both about... well...
p. 571.
Dumbledore has just said he doesn't want to take the potion.
"You... you can't stop, Professor," said Harry. "You've got to keep drinking, remember? You told me you had to keep drinking. Here..."
Hating himself, repulsed by what he was doing Harry forced the goblet back toward Dumbledore's mouth and...
you know the rest.
and of course the already infamous...
Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.
Hatred. Revulsion. I know people have already theorized that this was at what Snape HAD to do... not at Dumbledore... and I wanted desperately to beleive it. Looking at the word choice Rowling has used there, at that moment when Harry also faces that choice (whether he knows it or not) well... tricky tricky Jo.
::clings tighly to loyal!Snape theory::