Prophecy - Did Snape hear the whole Prophecy?

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I noticed a discrepency in what Harry was told about the prophecy by 
Dumbledore (in OotP) and by Trelawney (in HBP).  It seems very clear 
that Snape was the one that was listening at the door in the Hogs' Head and was caught by Aberforth.  Here is where the differences come in.

Dumbledore told Harry that the evesdropper only heard part of the 
prophecy and reported it to Voldemort.  Trelawney told Harry in 
Chapter 25 of HBP that she was at the interview and then felt funny 
(probably when she gave the prophecy to Dumbledore) but then she told Harry that she remembered Snape being caught at the door.

One thing we learned from POA was that when Trelawney gives a 
prophecy, she "blacks out" and has no recollection of what happened 
during the time she is giving the prophecy.  If Snape had been caught before hearing the whole prophecy, she would have been in the middle of telling the prophecy and not been able to remember the interuption of the interview from its beginning.

Some questions that this brings up:
-  Did Dumbledore send Snape back to Voldemort with orders to reviel 
the first part of the prophecy but not the whole prophecy?  Since 
Snape was probably a master of Occlemency even then, the second part 
of the prophecy was still safely hidden.
-  Was Snape acting because he was sorry he was evesdropping or sorry because he was caught?    There is a lot of resentment in Snape.
-  Was the reason Dumbledore trusted Snape the fact that, even though
he knew entire prophecy, he only reported the first part to 
Voldemort?  When Lily and James were killed and Harry marked, 
Dumbledore then knew that Snape did what he was asked to do.
-  Dumbledore and Snape would have been put in a mutually awkward 
position.  Snape knew the whole prophecy yet did not tell Voldemort.  

If Voldemort has found this out that Snape had withheld information, 
Snape would have died a very gruesome death.  However, Dumbledore did not want Voldemort to know the prophecy either, so there was a lot of mutual trust there.

Just a few thoughts.  Probably missing something, but it is 
interesting to think about.  (Or I may be reading more into it than 
is actually there.)


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