TBAY: Definitely NOT a Snape Theory (long)

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
> 
> Yeah, Snape could have said that, Snape says many things, which I 
> personally find quite unconscionable, but could you point me to 
> canon which proves it, namely that without knowing the prophecy 
> Voldemort would get around to killing them anyway?
> 
Pippin:
Well, that's  what Dumbledore says, isn't it, that the prophecy
doesn't make people do things?

Alla:

> Do we KNOW that "thrice defied him" occurred before the Prophecy, 
> not after it? I mean, it is likely that Lily and James were on  the 
> hit list as members of the Order, but there are hit lists and there 
> are hit lists, IMO. It seems to me that after learning about the 
> Prophecy, Voldemort placed Potters on very SPECIAL hit list. IMO of 
> course.
> 

Pippin:

ROTFL! You mean there's a special list of people that Voldemort
wants more dead than others? "Not only merely dead, but
really most sincerely dead" ? Terminated with *more*  than extreme
prejudice? I haven't got my books available, but I don't recall
any canon for this. Except maybe in the Oz books. IIRC, The Nome 
King  once ordered some annoying visitors killed several times 
until they were dead. :-)


Really, if Voldemort moved Lily and James ahead of other people 
he was planning to kill, then Snape saved some innocent lives, 
didn't he?  

He could have claimed credit for that too. Okay, not really. But 
would OFH!Snape  see why he shouldn't?

See, I don't understand how a person without any core belief that 
killing was wrong  could convince someone like Dumbledore that 
he was a moral person, not for a few months but year after year.

Pippin