Has this been done before?

Probably, but I haven't seen it.. so here goes! I had the DADA teachers on my mind. I am also trying to find anything Snape said to Harry about Harry's father. (didn't find anything in bk 1)..

BUT.. I ran across the riddle that Snape wrote. Out of context, it fit with what we could know of the DADA teachers thus far. I have not analyzed the whole thing, to try to make the end pieces fit together, but I will.

Now,Prefect Marcus (a.k.a. Mark B. Hammer) at the Lexicon has gone to the trouble to figure out the solutions, which fit with my theory, mostly.. and while it doesn't portray Snape as favorably as I hoped, it is ok..
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-potionriddle.html

Here goes:
*Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind.
*Two of us will help you, whichever you would find. (Two DADA teachers will see him through)
*One amongst us seven will let you move ahead,
*Another will transport the drinker back instead. (One of the two will help to learn what is needed to move fwd and defeat V, the other, though supportive and a friend, would help H stay safe and go back)
*Two among our number, hold only nettle wine. (Lockhart and Snape)
*Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line. (Quirrell, Moody and Umridge)
*Choose, unless you wish to stay here forever more. (Can't stay neutral.. what'll it be?)
*To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
*First however slyly the poison tries to hide
*You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
*Second, different are those who stand at either end
*But if you would move onward neither is your friend;
*Third as you see clearly, all are different size,
*Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
*Fourth, the second left and the second right
*Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.

Lexicon's answers:
P W f/p f/p P W B
My application:
Q L L M U S ?

Neither Lockhart nor Severus tried to hurt Harry, which fits with second left and second right.
Lockhart and Snape are alike, although not at first sight. Well, they look like total opposites, but in the end, Snape is just as arrogant and full of self as Lockhart. They just apply it differently.

And I like the ambiguity of #3 &4 helping or hurting Harry. MoodyCrouch helped Harry a LOT! His goal was Harry's ultimate demise, but he did help him. Lupin did not have Harry's ultimate demise as his goal, but when Lupin was transformed, he did try to hurt Harry.. so that is pretty accurate!

The seventh DADA teacher will be supportive to Harry. I was thinking he/she would hold him back, but hubby has wisely said to not lock myself into that mindset. Perhaps he/she will help Harry get back to normal, or bring him back... from whatever he needs brought back from.

Will there be a new character for the DADA teacher? Until Snape, they were all new to us. Hmm.. maybe Bill Weasely? I like that one. Maybe that will be my prediction for bk7.....

I still contend that Snape will protect Harry in some fashion from the DADA teacher.

Another List

Bk1: Quirrell, during Quidditch Match
Bk2: Lockhart, during the Dueling Club
Bk3: Lupin, during last full moon
Bk4: MoodyCrouch, after the Tourney
Bk5: Umbridge, veritaserum... and the end when they left..
Bk6: Snape, after the Tower, as Sev is leaving..
Bk7: .................

Time will only tell.... who will be the DADA teacher? I find it pretty interesting that Snape has protected Harry from each DADA teacher so far...

Many Topics

I was talking to Racie earlier, and I have soooooo many topics to try to research! *argh!* I am having a hard time keeping them prioritized! (Because none of these theories are truly any sort of priority anyhow... but I digress).

1. Hagrid is eeeevil!
2. Lily/Sev in any fashion.
3. Minoiva is eeeevil! yes I said Minoiva.. ;-)
4. Arthur Weasley under the imperius...
5. Draco is a werewolf..
6. Madame Pince is Sev's mother in hiding..
7. Filch is either Tobias, or Pince's boyfriend.
8. Remus is a spy.. and maybe not a werewolf at all..
9. Sev is "that awful boy" Petunia talks about in bk 5.

Rowling is so good at disguising Misdirection that if you view any of these theories under the microscope of.. 'think of it backwards of how you think you know' (#'s 1,3,5,7,8) or.. 'could the evidence point to that in one degree of seperation?' (#'s 2, 6,9).. even in the case of #4.

Now, back when MoodyCrouch was teaching the kiddies that Unforgivables.. he talks to Neville about Cruciatus.. cuz his parents bought it. He talks to Harry about Avada Kadavra.. cuz HIS parents bought it... and he talks to Ron about Imperius. MoodyCrouch says.. "your father WOULD know that one... ". Food for thought, that one is. What could have happened to Arthur? Hard to say. That would take it two degrees away from the book though.

What happens when the Secret-Keeper dies?

This is all directly quoted from JKRowling's site:

"I was surprised that this question won, because it is not the question I'd have voted for... but hey, if this is what you want to know, this is what you want to know!

When a Secret-Keeper dies, their secret dies with them, or, to put it another way, the status of their secret will remain as it was at the moment of their death. Everybody in whom they confided will continue to know the hidden information, but nobody else.

Just in case you have forgotten exactly how the Fidelius Charm works it is

'an immensely complex spell involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single living soul. The information is hidden inside the chosen person or secret-keeper and is henceforth impossible to find -- unless of course, the Secret-Keeper chooses to divulge it.' (HP & the POA)

In other words, a secret (e.g. the location of a family in hiding, like the Potters) is enchanted so that it is protected by a single keeper (in our example, Peter Pettigrew, a.k.a. Wormtail). Thenceforth, nobody else -- not even the subject themselves-- can divulge the secret. Even if one of the Potters had been captured, force fed Veritaserum or placed under the Imperious curse, they would not have been able to give away the whereabouts of the other two. The only people whoever knew their precise location were those whom Wormtail had told directly, but none of them would have been able to pass on the information."

I still say.. the theoretical piece of paper notwithstanding, that Hagrid had to have known where to go. Or Sirius did go get Harry and give him to Hagrid. The Aurors should not have been able to go to the site. AND.. if (without the paper Racie came up with) anyone DID know how to get there.. they should have TOLD that Sirius was not the Secret-Keeper.