VA/H=Mx13+RP? (was: Was the eavesdropper unimportant to Harry?)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 147132


> Jen: It paints a picture of Snape as awfully naive not to wonder for 
> a moment what Voldemort would do with the information. Naive or 
> worse, unconcerned. I'm all for the possibility that the Snape Harry 
> knows is not the Snape who joined the DE's, became bitter and battle-
> scarred, and possibly permanently altered himself practicing 
> Occlumency so much. Still, naivete as a young man doesn't strike me 
> as being in-character. Unconcern does, though.

zgirnius:
I'm not clear what you mean by 'unconcern'. It could be unconcern, as 
in 'so Voldemort will go kill some baby or babies...so what?' Or, 
unconcern as in simply not bothering to work out the consequences for 
anyone other than himself (the Dark Lord may be pleased I brought him a 
prophecy only Dumbledore knows). The second seems to me more consistent 
with great remorse on learning how the Dark Lord had interpreted the 
prophecy (in other words, if he's hit over the head with the 
consequences to others, he does care).