Timeline for Snape's change of heart (was: Snape, Voldemort, and teaching)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 135442

SSSusan earlier presented a slight adjustment possibility to 
Mooseming's timeline.

HunterGreen responded:
> The text appears to support that timeline, at least in the 
> Spinner's End. However, if it did work out that way, it would have 
> been rather hard for Dumbledore to trust him, don't you think? 
> First he *pretends* to repent his ways, then he *really* repents 
> them and goes to Dumbledore explaining that the first time he was 
> faking....wouldn't that seem a little off to Dumbledore? I suppose 
> if he was admitting to telling Voldemort that the Potters were now 
> a *direct* target, then it might make Dumbledore trust him a 
> little more, but if he had believed him the first time, during the 
> time Snape admits (for the sake of this timeline) he was faking, 
> how would he ever believe him again?


SSSusan:
Yes, this could be problematic.  If I could draw attention to my own 
little ship in the Bay, however, I still think DRIBBLE SHADOWS 
[128717 & following] is afloat as a possibility here.  (Well, she 
ain't a-sailing mightily about, but she's not sunk either, I don't 
think.)

In that theory, it was proposed that what Snape did to convince DD 
was actually help CREATE some kind of protective potion/ointment for 
Harry.  Thus, it wasn't just Snape's *word* that he'd switched sides 
or that he cared what happened to the Potters; it was his 
willingness to *work* to protect Harry, to develop and apply some 
protection to him, proving he wanted Harry to live.  Actions speak 
louder than words, IOW.


Huntergreen: 
> This timeline continues to confuse me, unless I look at it from 
> the point-of-view that Snape never switched sides at all. <snip>
> If he was faking, and always faking, then it makes sense.


SSSusan:
Yes, that is a possibility, as well, though not one I find 
particularly compelling.  I tend to believe Snape's membership in 
the DEs was a true membership, and that his turn away from Voldy was 
a true change of heart.

Siriusly Snapey Susan