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Kind of a random entry, but I’ve been spending the last couple days rereading Harry Potter IV-VI, and decided I needed an outlet for my guesses of what will happen in the series. So, warning… Harry Potter spoilers ahead, so don’t read it if you havn’t read all six books. But I’d appreciate it if fellow fans would offer their opinion on these two subjects. Yes, I know this entry is like 6 months late, and nobody cares about Harry Potter anymore, but anyways….
1) Who is RAB, who got to the amulet before Dumbledore and Harry Potter and left that note?
I think it’s Regulus Black, Sirius’s brother, who became a death eater, but turned against Voldemort and was apparently murdered for it. The initials match, and the note RAB left sounds like it was from somebody who turned away from the Dark Lord’s service.
2) Is Sirius Black really dead?
I think he will come back in some form or other (but maybe as a ghost) for the following reasons.
a) No body
b) The murder was too inconsequential - It was this three paragraph aside, really, with no real point. And the murderer was Bellatrix Lestrange, who was a fairly minor character. If Rowling really wanted to finish such a major character off, she would have written a more consequential death, with more drama. While Cedric’s death was also fast, he was a minor character, and was killed by someone important — Lord Voldemort. Albus Dumbledore, on the other hand, had a really dramatic death scene with major plot implications — the plot twist of Snape’s supposed betrayal — which makes me believe he’s really dead.
c) His last year was a bit too pathetic - Sirius’s last year alive, in Book V, was pretty miserable, with him being cooped up in that house all year. Rowling likes drama, bu I don’t think as an author she’d be sadistic enough to make the last year of his life that miserable and useless. If he were really going to die, he would at least get another chance to contribute toward Voldement’s defeat before he died.
d) The way JK Rowling portrays the scenes after the death - Look at Dumbledore’s funeral scenes. They were reverent, dramatic, inspiring. His death inspires everyone to continue the fight, etc. etc. The scenes at the end of book V, however, are very different. Basicallly, it’s scene after scene trying to convince the reader that Sirius really is dead. Harry talks to Nearly Headless Nick, who tells Harry that yes, Sirius is dead. Harry looks at the mirror that Sirius gave him, and yet again, it seems like Sirius is really dead.
Also, the way the characters in later books refer to Sirius’s death is overkill. The major theme when Dumbledore and others talk to Harry about Sirius is “Yup, he’s dead. It really sucks, cause he really should have lived. Harry and Sirius would have had so many happy years together.” It’s too pessimistic. They dwell too much on the negative aspects of the death. If Sirius were really dead, Rowling wouldn’t be working that hard to get the reader depressed about it.
3) Is Snape really evil?
I’d say no. Why?
a)Cuz I trust Dumbledore’s judgment.
b)I’m guessing that when Dumbledore was pleading with Snape just before Snape was going to kill him… (”Severus.. please,”) he was actually pleading with Snape to carry through with killing him, and not to blow his cover. Snape wears a mask of hatred and revulsion as he kills Dumbledore, but I think that was more directed toware himself than at Dumbledore. As he flees Hogwarts, Harry calls him a coward and Snape loses his temper, shouting “Don’t call me coward!” He cannot stand being called a coward, because, if my theory is correct and Snape actually is against Voldemort, then killing Dumbledore and pretending to betray Hogwarts required huge amounts of courage. |
