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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demmero" data-source="post: 2419964" data-attributes="member: 13641">Or one will make a sacrifice to save the other.  I felt so stupid when it finally hit me today that Harry and Ginny are virtually mirror images of James and Lily Potter (Harry looks just like his dad and Ginny has the same red hair as Lily).  I get the feeling that whatever sacrifices were made to save Harry's life will be somehow reflected in Harry's final encounter with Voldemort.Quite possible.  He doesn't seem to truly be serving Voldemort; his reasons for NOT killing Harry that he gives early in Book 6 have flown out the window by the end of that book.  He should kill Harry then when the opportunity presents itself but doesn't.  Maybe he's hoping Harry will defeat Voldemort and then Snape himself can become leader of the Death Eaters.  Or maybe he's deep undercover and working with the Order of the Phoenix to destroy Voldemort.Dumbledore seems MIGHTY certain that Snape can be trusted, and usually the headmaster's wisdom can be trusted.  Snape made one Unbreakable Vow with Narcissa Malfoy; who's to say Dumbledore didn't make him take another one when he first applied to teach at Hogwarts?I have a suspicion that while Snape hated James Potter he may have had other feelings for Lily.  Maybe Lily wasn't supposed to be home the night Voldy attacked, and Snape's sincere sorrow about his Death Eater days comes from her death in protecting Harry.  I've always thought it strange for a professor to flat-out hate the son of someone he hated back in his own school days without giving the kid the benefit of the doubt first.  Maybe when he looks at Harry he sees Lily's eyes looking back at him.I was REALLY surprised that we learned next to nothing (again!) about Harry's mother; she's got to be unveiled in Book 7.I agree.  Maybe Dumbledore wants Harry to be able to do something similar when he confronts Snape again (assuming that Snape's not wholly evil).As much as I hate Draco, I'm working on a theory that maybe somehow he (and not Harry or Neville) is The Chosen One.  Although I don't believe Malfoy's birthday is ever revealed, he's one of the few 6th-Year students too young to take Apparition classes (so his birthday's at least in the same neighborhood as Harry and Neville's).  In OotP, Dumbledore claims that the prophecy means that The Chosen One "would be born to parents who had already defied Voldemort three times."  If that's true, then I'm wrong.  But in Book 6, JKR gives us three examples of the Malfoy family defying Voldemort (Lucius by slipping Riddle's diary into Ginny Weasley's cauldron back in Book 2, Narcissa by speaking to Snape about Draco's situation, and then Draco himself by not killing Dumbledore when he had the perfect opportunity).I'm kinda digging this theory   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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