Rosebushes (was: Lots of Snape Stuff)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 17536

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., koinonia02 at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
I wrote:

> I have a 
> > thought that one of the reasons Snape turned away from Volemort 
> back 
> > to Dumbledore is because Voldemort hurt someone he (Snape) loved -
 
> > could be Lily, could be someone else, I wouldn't like to hazard a 
> > guess.
> 
Koinonia wrote:
> He turned away from Voldemort before Lily was killed.  

Quite right - but I said "hurt"  - not kill.  I was thinking more 
along the lines of the fact that if Snape got an inkling that 
Voldemort wanted to kill the Potters - and we know that they were 
targeted and that a spy of Dumbledore got wind of it - perhaps this 
was enough to bring Snape to his senses.  It didn't necessarily need 
to be a reaction to something after the fact.  I assume that all the 
death eaters had instructions to find the Potters - therefore perhaps 
he had come to the conclusion that he couldn't countenance these 
particular deaths and tried to pre-empt instead.

Catherine