Snape and Peter and Prophecy and Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 145488

>Alla:

>But Harry does not imagine Snape's guilt, he blames the person who 
>IS guilty, no? So, whatever underlying psychological factors Harry 
>has to put the blame on Snape. To me and to me only the key is that 
>Harry blames the right person, the one who is guilty.

>Julie:
> It's *partly* because of Snape. And it's partly because Sirius
>picked  the wrong secret-keeper, and partly because James and Lily 
>placed  their trust in that wrong person. <snip>.

>Pippin:
>It's canon that Voldemort is responsible for deciding that the
>prophecy was important, that James and Lily were the parents of
>the prophecy child, and that they, or at least James and Harry,
>should be destroyed. It's canon that Peter betrayed the Potters.

Orna:
I think that Harry's guilt, as an underlying factor might interfere 
with his ability to blame in the right amount and therefore in a way 
also to the right person, and to focus his actions in the best 
efficient way. 

Basically scapegoating is not about taking a complete innocent 
person and blaming him, but taking someone, who might be guilty in 
some respects, and accuse him more and more, even for deeds he is 
not responsible for. And usually some of the things have to do with 
putting blame on the least liked person, in order not to acknowledge 
it on some better liked person – or the accuser himself. 
That's what the canon from OotP tells us in respect to Sirius' 
death. 

Snape has some responsibility in Harry's parents' death, and of 
course, if he hasn't renounced his DE ways, or felt remorse for his 
deeds – he is ESE!. 

But he seems to get more responsibility there than anybody else, 
while as far as we know -  he couldn't know it would be the Potter's 
who would be picked out. As from what we know, he might have told 
the prophecy, thinking Voldemort would wait to see who is 
endangering him. Speculating from a DDM!Snape's POV, he might have 
delivered the prophecy, and when he came to realize that Voldemort 
decided to kill the Potters and/or Harry – as a baby, it might be 
then and there that he changed sides. He might be the one telling DD 
that Voldemort had chosen Baby-Harry. I mean, how did the Potters 
guess they were chosen and chosen for immediate death? They had 
defied him trice before the prophecy, and not gone into hiding just 
because of the danger, so it looks as if someone told them they were 
picked for immediate murder.   Someone must have told DD, the way 
Voldemort had decided to deal with the prophecy. 
I think that Snape is a possibility there. I can see him feeling 
indebted to James, and I can even imagine him being horrified by an 
intention to kill a baby. 

If it was something like this, I think Harry would be able to have 
some reconciliation there. I don't imagine he can ever like Snape, 
or feel comfortable with him – after all he had his hand in 
directing Voldemort to them, and I find it hard to imagine anybody 
being able to really forgive such a thing, but he might be able to 
understand and be  less hateful towards him.

Orna