Snape knows Harry's Chosen One? (was:Snape and Neri's old theory.)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 137402

> Pippin:
> > It's now canon that Snape has known all along that Harry is the 
> > Chosen One. 
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Erm... can I ask how this is canon?
> 
> Per DD, in the Weasleys' broomshed:
> 
> "Yes," said Harry again.  "And now everyone knows that I'm the
one--"
> 
> "No, they do not," interrupted Dumbledore.  "There are only two 
> people in the whole world who know the full contents of the
prophecy  made about you and Lord Voldemort, and they are both 
standing in this  smelly, spidery broom shed."
> [HBP, p. 78, US edition]
> 
> So how do we know Snape has known all along?
> 

Pippin:
Snape doesn't know the full contents of the prophecy. But he knows
that "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches.
..Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh
month dies...." because he heard Trelawney say those words.
And he knows whom Voldemort believes the One to be "you have
no idea of the remorse Professor Snape felt when he realized how
Voldemort interpreted the prophecy."  [HBP-US p 549]

I think part of Snape's cover is to behave as though he thinks 
Voldemort was mistaken and there really is nothing special or
important about Harry. Hence the constant sneering.

Pippin