[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Snape and the Eavesdropper

[Jennifer Angliss]

No: HPFGUIDX 65265

At 10:39 PM 06/27/2003 , bookraptor11 wrote:

>Dumbledore never said how soon before Snape rejoined; it could be a
>year or just before V went after the Potters.  However, if he turned
>spy after alerting V to the prophecy, it doesn't leave him much time
>for spying, as V seems to have gone after them rather quickly once he
>had the information.  I still seem to remember Dumbledore
>saying "more than a year" at some point in the series, but can't find
>it.

This still works. The prophecy was made in late spring/early summer of the 
year Harry was born. Harry wasn't attacked until the Halloween of the 
*following* year, when he was 15 months old or so. If the planned attack on 
the Potters was what sent Snape back over to Dumbledore's side, there was 
still plenty of time for Snape to be working for Dumbledore.


Jennifer