disallows perturbation tediously?whiteners Sanhedrin retort …

Green eyes?

Is someone trying to tell us something?

Is Harry the Heir of Gryffindor through his mother’s family line?

“Medieval (precise dates unknown)
One of the four famous Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Godric Gryffindor was the most accomplished dueller of his time, an enlightened fighter against Muggle-discrimination and the first owner of the celebrated Sorting Hat.”

His hair could be described as auburn (like young Dumbledore) or as dark red (like Lily). His eyes are GREEN. He holds his silver sword. (Helga Hufflepuff was shown with her cup, Salazar Slytherin with his locket. Will Rowena Ravenclaw hold her wand? I think she will …)

If you are interested, I posted my odd theory about Harry and Voldemort’s soul piece on the Is-Harry-a-Horcrux-thread.

Morfin had been talking to empty chair before Voldemort attacked him. Actually when Voldemort noticed such a weakness he started appraising his possibilities, thereafter he put a charm on Morfin.

Certainly, I agree with no points proposing Harry is not a horcrux, but there is something else I would like to discuss right now.

Dumbledore was keeping eyes on Voldemort, who knew it. Despite the fact Voldemort kill his father and grandparents during the summer. Dumbledore manage to get memory from Morfin, unfortunately he was to lake. How come? Does Dumbledore really think so slowly? Or is there perhaps a plot hole? I guess neither of them. Although Dumbledore was Hogwarts teacher he managed to defeat Grinewald. Fighting dark wizards might be time consuming, but Dumbledore had all the summer free. He might fight Grinewald forces, perhaps out of Great Britain. That was probably the reason why he started to investigate too late. Dumbledore managed to defeat the greatest wizard of his age, but he was so busy he did not manage to stop rise of the darkest wizard ever.

Q1. No clue, really, but but if Snape is Evil or Machiavellian, then what would happen to his mother? Or maybe she would be able to influence him to come back to the Good side?

Q2. I believe the Longbottoms were tortured because the DEs for some reason thought the Longbottoms knew where Vapormort was (the Longbottoms were Aurors, if memory serves me correctly).

Q3. When Dumbledore talks to Harry at the end of CoS about pulling the sword out of the hat, he says something to the effect of “Only a true Gryffindor could do that.” I believe Harry had been telling Dumbledore that the Sorting Hat had considered placing him in Slytherin when this conversation took place.

Put those through your “candy factory” and let us know what you come up with. Guess we’re all not really done theorizing yet, are we?!

Pat, that’s one of my favourite theories, too, and also thought it was silly in the first place. But there are a lot of good reasons to assume that she is Snape’s mother, most of which you’ve mentioned. It makes a lot of sense to me. The one thing that struck me most is that she appeared with a veil at Dumbledore’s funeral. Why would she do that?

Reyhan, I’m pretty sure that her true identity will be unveiled in DH and that she has an active role to play in the final instalment, although I’ve no idea what exactly it’ll be like. But we’ll certainly learn about Snape’s back-story and family, especially Eileen Prince, I assume. That’s probably why she was introduced in HBP.

Assuming that Pince is actually Ma Snape, where does it go from there? Plotwise, is it enough for her identity to be revealed? Or does she have an active role to play in the denouement?

My second question is this: why did Bellatrix and her cronies torture the Longbottoms until they went insane? Was it for the heck of it? Or were they trying to find out something, which the Longbottoms heroically refused to divulge? And if so, what was it?

The location of something? Something Voldemort wanted to use? A potential Horcrux? A Horcrux he’d made and then lost? The locket, maybe?

Finally, about the possibility of DD being the Heir of Gryffindor: Harry pulled the sword out of the Sorting Hat. What does the canon say about who is allowed to do that?

Personally, the pet theory I’m going to find hard to let go of is that Madam Pince is really Snape’s mother–the old “I’m a Prince” anagram for Irma Pince. When I first heard it I thought it was just too silly to consider, but there is a lot of it that adds up–especially the tie in with Dumbledore offering to hide Draco and his mother, as if it’s something that he has done before. Now, of course, the Death Eaters know that Snape isn’t dead, but wouldn’t they have gone after any of Snape’s family if they were still living when he defected to Dumbledore? And mentions of Pince, a minor character, keep cropping up throughout the books, usually in close proximity to Snape–not that they are together, but she is usually mentioned soon after we’ve seen Snape doing something, as a way that connects them in our mind.

Just another wild thought. And with that thrown into the mix, I’m off for today.

I have to add–you are all wonderful here, and so is Travis for providing such a welcoming place for discussions and for being so patient with all of us.

Pat