Just suppose Snape is at the heart of it all

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 87975

 "karenreiduk" wrote:

> We know for a fact that Snape was a trusted Death Eater because he 
> has the Dark Mark.  

Carol responds:
I, too, am very curious about when and why Snape left the Deat Eaters.
However, I'm not sure that the Dark Mark can be interpreted as a mark
of trust. I think it's more of a brand forced onto iniitiates to keep
them loyal. It informs them when they're "called" an tortures them
when they ignore the call. Snape was quite young when he joined the
DEs--I would guess 18 or 19--and had not yet had time to prove his
loyalty.

Karenreiuk again:
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> Voldemort hatches his Herod-like plan (we know that the prophecy was 
> overheard before Harry was born in July and that Voldemort
> doesn't visit Godrick's Hollow until Halloween which was 3
> months later).

Carol responds:
Do we know that the prophecy was made before Harry's birth? Can you
quote me the canon that gives the date? Also, I was under the
impression that Harry was fifteen months old, not three months old,
when his parents were killed. He's referred to somewhere as being a
year old when his parents are killed; that would be twelve months old
on July 31 and fiteen months on October 31.

Carol, with apologies for ignoring the theoretical aspects of this
post. I'm interested in getting the facts straight first.