Snape & The PRophecy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 74010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Buttercup <cathio2002 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- jakedjensen wrote:
> 
> ****SPOILER**** rereading the end of OotP and I
> > can't help but 
> > notice that it is sixteen years ago Dumbledore heard
> > the prophecy and 
> > sixteen years ago that Snape came to teach at
> > Hogwarts.  Both facts 
> > mentioned in the same book.  Is there connection? 
> > Is the connection 
> > that Snape was the DE who heard the first part of
> > the prophecy in the 
> > Hog's Head and told VD?  Maybe Snape was there to
> > interview for a job?
> > 
> Buttercup:
> 
> Yes, good thinking. This must be the reason why JKR
> had Umbridge asked how long each teacher had taught at
> Hogwarts. We needed to find out that Snape had been
> there the same length of time Dumbledore knew found
> out about the prophecy. Snape has something to do with
> the prophecy issue, I'm sure.
> 
> 

But I think someone else has already commented that Snape has been at 
HSWW for /14/ years (OOTP p.323 in the chapter "Educational decree 
number twenty-four"


"Geoff Bannister"