Just suppose Snape is at the heart of it all

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 87997

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol:
> Do we know that the prophecy was made before Harry's birth? Can you
> quote me the canon that gives the date? 

Geoff:
Dumbledore - speaking to Harry after the battle at the Ministry which 
is in the summer of 1996 approaching the end of Harry's 5th year; it 
is after OWLs so is in June or July - Harry will be sixteen on 31st 
July.

"'...But the prophecy was made to somebody and that person has the 
means of recalling it perfectly.'
'Who heard it?' asked Harry, though he thought he knew the answer 
already.
'I did', said Dumbledore. 'On a cold, wet night sixteen years ago in 
a room above the bar at the Hog's Head inn.....'

(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" p.740 UK edition)

Hence Dumbledore heard the prophecy at the turn of 1979/80 six months 
or so before Harry was born.

Carol:
> 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.

Geoff:
He was. I noticed that error in the original post but decided not to 
pick up on it at that point in time.

"'All anyone knows is, he turned up in the village where you was all 
living, on Hallowe'en ten years ago. You was just a year old. He came 
to yer house an'- an' -'"

(Hagrid to Harry PS "The Keeper of the Keys" p.45 UK edition)

Hagrid was slightly out in that Harry was just turning fifteen months.