Snape's "defection"...the timing's off.

[lizvega_2]

No: HPFGUIDX 133099

Of course, this could be interpreted in a number of ways, but the 
timing, as far as Harry knows, doesn't add up. 

In Spinner's End, Snape tells Bella and Cissy that he was at 
Hogwarts when Voldemort fell, placed their under LV's orders. 

Fast forward 16 years and Dumbledore tells Harry that delivering the 
news of the prophesy to LV, and the ramifications of doing so, was 
perhaps the greastest regret of Snapes life. Harry assumes, and 
tells the other's in the hospital wing, that Snape came to Hogwarts 
because of his parents murder, not before it. 

So, either Snape was lying to Bella about the timing, which I doubt, 
because she concurred that she knew he was there on LV's orders 
before LV fell, or Harry got the timing, and, subsequently the 
reason wrong. 

I suspect the latter. Dumbledore hesitated, tried to make up his 
mind about something, before he gave the same old story about 
trusting Snape. Snape didn't come back to Hogwarts after LV fell, 
but before, and with a very good story. 

One other thing that struck me was the scene in which LV comes back 
to Hogwarts for a job. I wonder how similar this scene was to the 
one when Snape came back. What's interesting, is that DD knew he 
couldnt' give LV a job, but Snape was worthy. 

"LizVega"