Prophecy # 1: Wait A Second

[Cindy L]

No: HPFGUIDX 136171

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, sunnylove0 at a... wrote:
> We hear the story of someone overhearing Trelawney's first prophecy 
from  
> Dumbledore in OOP (Chapter 37):
>  
> "My---our---one stroke of good fortune was that the eavesdropper 
was  
> detected only a short way through the prophecy and thrown from the  
building."
>  
> But this is directly contradicted (well, not really, but Dumbledore 
is  
> skirting the issue again anyway, I think) by Trelawney's evidence 
in HBP (  Chapter 
> 25, italics mine):

<SNIP>    
> "...but then we were rudely interrupted by Severus Snape!"
>  
> "What?"
>  
> "Yes, there was a commotion outside the door and it flew open, and  
there was 
> that rather uncouth barman standing with Snape..."
> ********************
> Harry immediately flies off the handle about this, as I would do in 
his  
> place.  But he doesn't catch the point.  Snape did not leave that  
hallway until 
> the entire prophecy was made. Trelawney isn't going  to wake up mid-
sentence 
> and fall into her trance again. 

ME (CINDY):
This really got my attention too!  I could not understand how they 
could be interrupted mid-prophecy, and then continue on after a 
commotion like that.  This has me very confused.  If Snape did hear 
the entire prophecy, and at that time he was working for Voldemort, 
then Voldemort would know the whole prophecy - which of course he 
doesn't as was proven in OoP.

Also, did Trelawney know Snape?  How could she remember it was Snape 
who barged in?