Snape: Potions Master for 14 years

[melissaworcester]

No: HPFGUIDX 83191

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jana Fisher" 
<lawtrainer at y...> wrote:
>  If Harry is 15 and 
> change in the book, and the attack took place when he was 18 mos 
old, 
> does the time line fit?  Snape saves Harry, then works at Hogwarts 
> for protection from Lord Thingy?

I don't have the book in front of me either, but this triggered 
something that I've been pondering for some time. I'm on no mail on 
this list right now so I have no idea if you all have discussed it. 
It's part of Trelawney's prediction about Voldemort's servant going 
back to him, in PoA, I believe. Something about how the servant 
was "chained these twelve years" and how he will break free that 
night. I've wondered how exactly he got chained. I thought maybe 
Sirius did something before Pettigrew disappeared down the sewer, 
but the chance to learn about that seems to have fallen through the 
veil, unless Sirius left some written record of it, and that doesn't 
seem in character for him. But maybe Snape did something? Though 
you'd think if he had, he'd have recognized the rat when Ron came to 
Hogwarts.

Melissa, coming out of lurkdome