Timing of Snape's Turning (was:Re: Harry IS Snape!)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 141105

> >>Marianne:
> <snip>
> The idea that Snape would have no regrets about nameless people he 
> has put in danger, but suddenly change sides in a war once his 
> nemesis was killed doesn't click with me.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
It *shouldn't* click with you.  Because that's not how we've been 
told it happened.  Snape changed sides, per Dumbledore, *before* the 
attack on the Potters that left James and Lily dead and Voldemort a 
homeless soul-bit.

It's *Harry* who mis-interperts Dumbledore's words (ignoring what 
he'd learned in GoF) to conclude that Snape changed sides *after* 
his parents' death.  But either Harry is wrong or Dumbledore told a 
bald-faced lie to the MoM.

Betsy Hp




 Given the history       > between 
> James and Snape, I find it hard to swallow that, in the midst of 
> this horrific, years-long war, when all sorts of people were dying 
> and disappearing, Snape would suddenly find himself in a fit of 
> remorse over the death of his long-time enemy.
> 
> Marianne