Dumbledore responsible for Lily & James' death?

[watsola79]

No: HPFGUIDX 76919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "acoteucla" <acoteucla at h...> 
> wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
> > I would now like to add my own addition to Dumbledore's 
increasing 
> > list of heartless but necessary actions: he is responsible for 
> James 
> > & Lily's death.
> > 
> > There has been speculation that Snape is the one who overheard 
the 
> > prophecy in the Hog's Head, and reported it to LV.  All 
renditions 
> of 
> > this theory (that I have heard) involve Snape switching sides 
AFTER 
> > informing LV of the prophecy.  I have a different take on it.
> > 
> > Severus Snape, die-hard death-eater, overhears the prophecy IN 
ITS 
> > ENTIRETY when Trelawney utters it in the Hog's Head.  Lily Potter 
> > should be pregnant at this point.  Snape can figure out quite 
> easily 
> > that the Potters' child might be born around the end of July.  
His 
> > life-debt to James comes into play, forcing him to renounce his 
> > loyalty to LV and help Dumbledore.  Dumbledore recognizes the 
life-
> > debt, and thus trusts Snape's conversion.
> > 

*snip*

Forgive me if I missed something, but why, in your theory, do you 
state that Snape owes James a life-debt?  

Lana Lovegood