Hermonie & Data Base/age of HBP's text/Time Line for Snape

[darqali]

No: HPFGUIDX 135800

Am very behind in reading, sorry  if this has been addressed:

Hermione cannot create a computer data base for Hogwarts!

In case you have not noticed, Hogwarts does not use computers.

In fact, the wizarding world does not use *electricity*, [note Mr 
Weazley's fascination with the Dursley's 'eclectic' fire {with a 
*plug*!}]  :-)

Rather hard to use computers with no source to power them.

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Age of the HBP's Potions Text book:

There is no reason to assume the wizarding world would need to change 
anything so basic as a potions' textbook in anything like so short a 
time as 50 years {or even *much* longer}; many potions, and their 
antidotes would surely be *hundreds* if not *thousands* of years old.

It seems clear that Snape used his mother's old Potions text a 
generation after she attended school.  Certainly, Snape himself may 
have selected a different text for his own advanced Potions class 
than Sluggy did, but there is no reason to assume that would be 
necessary.  Many of the magical references throughout the HP series 
are truly *ancient*. 

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Time line for Snape/Prophecy: 

I tried to bring this up before but found no response; another post 
did refer to the obvious time issue, yet I have not seen it discussed:

We know Snape was a Death Eater and V follower.

Snape was *sent to Hogwarts* by V to be a spy.

Snape was *applying for* a job when he overheard {a part of} the 
Prophecy, which we know he repeated to V.  i.e., Snape was applying 
for a job *when he was a DE and employed by V*.

The Prophecy was made *before Harry {and Neville} were born*; the 
Potters were killed when Harry was about a year old .... there is 
*over a year* between the Prophecy, and V's attack on the Potters'.

So, re:  Snape

Was he a DE when Dumbledore hired him?  Or was he hired *after* he 
supposedly repented?  How could the reason Snape repented be the 
Potter's death, as a result of his reporting the Prophecy to V, when 
he supposedly repented his DE status *before LV fell*?  Was Snape a 
real V spy in his first year of teaching at Hogwarts?  Did he remain 
{as he told Cissy and Bellartix} because he 'thought LV finished' and 
become a spy again just as soon as LV returned?  Was he *ever* a 
Double Agent?

Something about the early time-line does not seem clear to me;  Snape 
was *not* a teacher when he overheard and reported the Prophecy to 
LV; he *was* an active DE at that time, and he was *sent* to become a 
spy.  What was he doing in that year + between the Prophecy and the 
death of the Potters?



Darqali.