More on Snape

[zsenya]

I *know* this has probably been brought up before. I *know* others have probably already thought up this theory and figured out why it won't work. But what's the point of a Live Journal if not to be able to blab away about your latest revelation in boring detail.

I was listening to Goblet of Fire on the way home from work today. I'm near the end

Comments

[likeafox]

Wow. I very much like that theory. (Almost as much as my Snape is Draco's father one :P)

But seriously, I think it does work well, and seems like something Rowling would do. It's not tremendously complicated, but twisty enough to be a real shock.

[dalf]

My problem with this theory is that what do we gain in trade for the farfetchedness. That is two books later nothing has happened that would make this order of events advantagious to the standard reading. What could possibly happen in book 7 that would make such a thing vital?

Additionally, this would mean that Barty Crouch Jr. is the cowardly one (since Karkaroff is clearly the one who will be killed) and that does not seem to wash.

[zsenya]

Well, all other problems aside, I wouldn't write off Barty Crouch as the cowardly one. If he WAS a Death Eater and if he really did beg his father at his trial, and if his mother helped bust him from Azkaban, then I guess he could be seen as cowardly...

[dalf]

I suppose, but in that case imagine how the exchange must have been with Voldemort for him to know all this. THe bit about Bertha Jorkins and finding out about "a faitful servant" who had been unable to come to him. Bertha knew about Barty but not Snape. So that would mean that Voldemort went to free Barty then Barty refused him? SO Snape put him under the imperius? All of this, so complex would have to relate to the final resolution of all 7 books to justify it at this point having gone 2 books withouth pulling it in.

[chanel19]

Wait, I thought Karkaroff was the cowardly one.

[taintedrocky]

That would be one helluva red herring!