Potters' House Destroyed, and Dark Marks fading when V. vaporized

[pippin_999 <foxmoth@qnet.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49525

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L. wrote.  
> 
> Another wild thought:  It is said that Snape turned spy for the 
> "good guys" before the fall of Voldemort.  Does canon ever 
> mention how LONG before the fall of Voldemort?  The more I 
> think about it, the more I think it was probably about an hour.  *
> grin*  He was at a Death Eater meeting, and heard the plot to 
kill 
> the Potters.  He was in life-debt to James, so the plot against 
his life would have given him at least some motivation to change 
> sides.  I can just see him fleeing to Dumbledore for help, and 
> them arriving too late to save James and Lily. 

Dumbledore says, at Karkaroff's hearing in the Pensieve, that 
Snape turned spy  at "great personal risk". That would seem to 
indicate that he was undercover for a while. Also, he apparently 
did something to convince Dumbledore that he had really come 
back to the Light Side. I don't think a failed attempt to rescue the 
Potters would qualify.

All but one of the DE's Karkaroff named had already been 
blown--how did that happen? And Sirius says that Karkaroff put 
"a load of other people into Azkaban." How could that be when he 
exposed only Rookwood? As part of his plea bargain, did 
Karkaroff  take public credit for Snape's activities? (This would 
argue that the hearing in GoF was kept secret, of course.)

Pippin