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feeling better today
Apr. 6th, 2005 02:14 pmI don't know anything more about what's going to happen with my job but I feel better today anyway because:
1. I sent in my tax returns
2. the sale of my house is set to close on Friday and there's nothing further I have to do
3. we had lab meeting today and I got permission to buy something that I need.
4. it's nice and sunny out
5. I have a burrito
I thought of something else with the whole Knight to King thing (which JKR recently debunked) that, in hindsight, make it look pretty implausible (I never heard about it until today so just pretend I said all this stuff before JKR said the theory was wrong):
Dumbledore has a brother. If Ron would have gone back in time, where would Alberforth have come from? Maybe there was an Albus Dumbledore and Ron went back in time and murdered him and assumed his identity. Seriously, though, this, like the Changeling hypothesis, just doesn't make sense to me. Ron and Dumbledore seem to have very different personalities, more different than even 130-odd years would account for. And why would Ron, finding himself stranded in the 19th century in his late teens, assume a new identity at all, let alone the identity of his headmaster who, as far as he knew, was not in fact himself. You know? People put so much effort into looking for clues in the narrative that they seem to forget about the characters being human beings who have to have motivation for their actions.
( more Harry Potter theorizing )
In conclusion: Voldemort knows that Snape is working for Dumbledore and Snape and Dumbledore know that Voldemort knows. That's why I think an undercover mission like we've all imagined is unlikely. Voldemort wouldn't tell Snape anything important and he'd only keep Snape alive as long as he found Snape useful, which might not be terribly long. An alternative is that Snape is in contact with other Death Eaters like Lucius but not with Voldemort himself. I can't see Snape going to the usual Death Eater meetings. No good would come of it and he'd probably wind up dead.
Man, the vampire thing made so much sense as an alternative. Oh well.
This calls for an update to my theory page. I'm thinking like a major rewrite. Not that I believe I have anything badly wrong (except the vampire thing. *sigh*) but I'd like to add a lot. On top of everything else I have planned for the site.
1. I sent in my tax returns
2. the sale of my house is set to close on Friday and there's nothing further I have to do
3. we had lab meeting today and I got permission to buy something that I need.
4. it's nice and sunny out
5. I have a burrito
I thought of something else with the whole Knight to King thing (which JKR recently debunked) that, in hindsight, make it look pretty implausible (I never heard about it until today so just pretend I said all this stuff before JKR said the theory was wrong):
Dumbledore has a brother. If Ron would have gone back in time, where would Alberforth have come from? Maybe there was an Albus Dumbledore and Ron went back in time and murdered him and assumed his identity. Seriously, though, this, like the Changeling hypothesis, just doesn't make sense to me. Ron and Dumbledore seem to have very different personalities, more different than even 130-odd years would account for. And why would Ron, finding himself stranded in the 19th century in his late teens, assume a new identity at all, let alone the identity of his headmaster who, as far as he knew, was not in fact himself. You know? People put so much effort into looking for clues in the narrative that they seem to forget about the characters being human beings who have to have motivation for their actions.
( more Harry Potter theorizing )
In conclusion: Voldemort knows that Snape is working for Dumbledore and Snape and Dumbledore know that Voldemort knows. That's why I think an undercover mission like we've all imagined is unlikely. Voldemort wouldn't tell Snape anything important and he'd only keep Snape alive as long as he found Snape useful, which might not be terribly long. An alternative is that Snape is in contact with other Death Eaters like Lucius but not with Voldemort himself. I can't see Snape going to the usual Death Eater meetings. No good would come of it and he'd probably wind up dead.
Man, the vampire thing made so much sense as an alternative. Oh well.
This calls for an update to my theory page. I'm thinking like a major rewrite. Not that I believe I have anything badly wrong (except the vampire thing. *sigh*) but I'd like to add a lot. On top of everything else I have planned for the site.
