Who is the eaveadropper? Was :Re: Simple!Snape?

[kempermentor]

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Alla wrote:
Your explanation  makes a lot of sense and yes, I realise that I am 
mostly speculating at this point, but still... somebody has to be 
the evesdropper, right? 
 
Do you agree that it is unlikely to be a character we haven't heard 
about so far?
 
Lupinlore disagreed: 
No, actually, I don't.  I don't think we have enough evidence to even 
make THAT sort of statement with any degree of confidence.

Kemper disagrees as well:
But for different reasons.  I don't think discovering who is the 
eavesdropper is important.  I speculated that the Dark Lord (I'm 
assuming LV is the DL) killed the eavesdropper because the 
prophecy/prediction/implied possibility contained info about "the one 
(not Neo)with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord" and I believe the 
Dark Lord wouldn't want that knowledge/prophecy/... circulating among 
his ranks or the wizarding world.

One might ask, "How did the Dark Lord know that DD wouldn't tell 
anyone who would listen?"  

Another might answer, "The Dark Lord was kicking the poo out of the 
Order and the WW prior to a certain Monday and Halloween night. So it 
can be easily assumed that the Dark Lord could reasonably guess how 
his nemesis would respond
 by respecting/honoring the privacy of whom 
the prophecy/prediction may be about (I think Lupinlore has addressed 
this, sort of, in a different post).  Of course, the Dark Lord would 
see DD's respect of others as a weakness and a possible reason for 
the Dark Order doing so well in those dark times.

Just some assumptions and speculation.  No doubt I will be wrong come 
July.
-Kemper