Is everyone ready for my year and half long post?!
You better be!!!!!!!!
This is an e-mail I wrote just in case I should ever need it. So here -
I talked to the normal brit lit teacher about harry potter for like an hour an a half today. and here's what he told me :
This is what he thinks FOR SURE is the basic thing. (the stuff is bold is stuff that IM saying and the italicized is what I don't believe anymore after reasurch, but I'm keeping it in here just so you can see)
Alchamy- Turning metal into gold or otherwise known as the sorcerers stone
Process-
1. Black Stage - dissillusion, the breaking down of the elements to turn it into a simpler form - Sirius black ( in the 5th book, one could say that they're breaking down the Harry Potter Character not to mention that he himself is breaking down.He's totally going insane in the book)
2. White - purification - The name albus=white ( not to mention the white tomb)
-so, assuming that the books go into the theory, this next one SHOULD happen.
3. Red - rebuld - Rubeus= red
he thinks that Hagrid is going to die. So far Black has died, dumbledore has died. Now in order for everything to be rebuilt and such, hagrid needs to die. 0.0 it's a bit odd, yes. But..yeah.
That makes perfect sense
okay, so the next thing we talked about was RAB
He says : Assuming RAB is Regulus Black, then we may also conclude that he is not dead. Let me rephrase. He may NOT be dead. You obviously know how JKR puts all sorts of things in her books, and she'd NEVER pick out a single word without thinking it out first ? Every word has a meaning? Well, look at the tower where Dumbledore is talking to Draco. Remember he said something like "Come over to the other side Draco, we can protect you, we can make it look like you're dead"
WELL
[/i]what if DUmbledore did that to Regulus, and Sirius didn't know about it?
Of course, there's the whole thing about how the note in the locket said "I know you will get this and I will have long since been dead" so I guess he could have said that buy just making it SEEMl ike he's dead..[/i]
another theory I came up with...during the whole..talking about RAB. Was this :
Remember how Dumbedore was screaming "don't do this to them! im sorry! it will never happen again!" etc? well, this is what I thought:
There's a theory going around that Lily and Regulus *assuming he's RAB* were..together, but that isn't of importance, so ... here we go
RAB *regulus* - > goes to get the locket -> switches the potions to make Voldemort feel pain about what he did to the kids. Make him re-live it and feel pain -> RAB dies *totally disproving the theory of Dumbledores protection..but that's okay* -> Dumbeldore ended up drinking the potion making him feel the guilt about the kids, even though it was intended for Voldy.
I know that's a streach, but I just had to mention that.
Back to what the man said to me :
another one could be Snape could be taking on the role of Machivelli - thus
If you take everyone over you'll have two choices
1. complete kill them off -or-
2. Completely liberate them.
There's a quote from this, saying "Keep your friends close, keep your enemys closer" In the 4th movie, sirius says 'keep your friends close harry!'
there is a person in "The Prince" by Machivelli notice, the prince, the HALF-BLOOD PRINCE named Septimius Severus he then read me a passage from that book and I took notes on it :
Severus - had too much ability to stay on the sidelines (he's totally a great potions master)
- He has the ablility to rule
- mark of fox or lion ( in the chapter the spinners end, the first thing you see is a Fox )
there are 2 obsticals for Severus of Machivelli- or 2 individuals he must defeat
Asia - Which had an emperor , a self proclaimed lord(which is standing for Voldemort here)
and the west, where Albumus came from (funny how that name CLOSELY resembles albus. Coincidence? I think not.)
In the book, Severus judged it too dangerous to show his enimitity to both because that would make him half 2 enemys, and that would ruin his plan, so he kills one and then the other.
Everything Severus tells Albunus, Albunus believes as the truth (just like albus)
So that is completely and utterly closely related. Which is kinda creepy.
So here're 2 possibilities.
1. Snape, based on Machivelli's story, is really in it to get his own power. lets recap
- He was working for both Voldemort and Dumbledore, and in the end shows himself as faithful for Voldemort.
so, assuming all of this to be the truth, then Snape wants to get himself power, and MY view on this is as follows
at the end we all know how snape tried to teach harry how to work spells and close his mind
well, what if Snape was trying to prepare him for the fight with Voldemort, it was him after all
who heard the prophecy in the first place so he knows that the only one to kill voldemort would have to be
harry, so he wants harry to off voldemort, and he'll off harry, thus being the most powerful
also, according to the guy (which I don't think this is related to this theory at all)
in order for Harry to grow he had to get rid of the person standing in his way, for him to be the most powerful. Like, in starwars for instance, if Yoda hadn't died, Luke would never be the best Jedi. Yoda HAD to die for Luke to realize his destiny. Just like with Harry. Dumbeldore HAD to die for Harry to realize his destiny and to be the best. DUmbledore is gone, now all that's standing in Snapes way is Voldemort. And since Harry has nothing standing in HIS way, does that make sense? it does to me.
which. it totally does make sense BUT -
2. it doesn't explain the look of disgust on Snapes face when he has to kill Dumbledore, so tossing the other theory aside Snape really is faithful to Dumbledore
him" Yeah...I remember, because of the argument Snape overheard...it said 'you're taking advantage of me' or 'what if I don't want to do it' etcetc.
yes. exactly. That was a theory on mugglenet.
Moving on. He also thought that the Veil symbolizes death. We don't know ANYTHING about death and we don't know anything about the veil. He also doesn't know if Harry CAN live. He think's Harry will make the sacrifice of killing himself and bringing Voldemort with him. Taking them both through the veil. That was a theory that I believed the whole time.
-woo, this is taking a long time and I'm so fucking tired. But I MUST keep_going-
The teacher also said that he thinks the locked door in the department of mysteries is religion. Whether that matters in the story or not, ... but still, it's quite interesting to think about .
NOW
In book 5 remmeber when moody is showing Harry the picture and he said - " Caradoc Dearborn we never found his body"
it was just in passing: but we all know that when something is just in passing with JKR it's never JUST IN PASSING. so. that will probably be important.
alos, JKR said that there was one member of the order that we havent met yet. He thinks that it's Albus's brother. I can't remember if it said he died or not, but Im too tired to look it up. Anyway, that mystery character, the teacher said, may ALSO be the bartender from the Hogs Head.
*yawn* that's all of my notes.
So I'll probably add more to this tomorrow, but that's just some thoughts for right now.
Goodnight.
write me back with your responses.
/end e-mail
Though the Machiavelli theory makes complete sense, in my head anyway, it still doesn't change the fact that I trust Snape. I just trust him. Maybe I'm just clinging to some desperate hope like JKR said, but .. Snape was my favourite character. ><
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like, Snape himself 
) I've heard of every possible pairing by now and some are so ridiculous... Snape x Lilly is really popular though I always found it very unlikely.
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. Oh well, it's not like it's going to kill me.