Dumbledore responsible for Lily & James' death?

[severusbook4]

No: HPFGUIDX 76923

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "watsola79" <watsola79 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- 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

Severus here:

He stopped me from proceding to the haunted house in Hogsmead, and 
kept me from being killed by Lupin, the werewolf.  For this I owe 
him a life debt.

Severus "damn my moral conscience" Snape