VA/H=Mx13+RP? Snape's Culpability?

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 147266

> Carol responds:
> Think about how long it takes to run (or be thrown downstairs) and 
to
> Apparate. That's how long young Snape would have had to think about
> the Prophecy. Possibly he didn't even think about the meaning and
> implication of the words until he was reciting them. At that point 
he
> would have seen Voldemort's reaction and realized that Voldemort
> interpreted the Prophecy to mean that an unborn child was the 
threat
> and that he (LV) intended to identify and kill that unborn child. I
> still contend that young Snape, intent on getting to his boss with 
a
> potentially important but obscurely worded piece of information, 
did
> not have time to reason it out. Just memorize it, Apparate, and 
report
> to LV. I'm pretty sure that he'd be thinking about the 
consequences to
> himself (reward or punishment) if he had time to think about 
anything
> at all--not about the consequences to some unknown person born at 
the
> end of July who presented a future threat to Voldemort. 
<SNIP>

Alla:

Thanks for the explanation, but I sincerely think that your 
explanation is not supported by the canon we have at all. IMO of 
course. Yes, you said at the end that you don't think that Snape is 
stupid, but from the picture you portrayed I see not just stupid, 
but idiotic Snape. He did not realise the meaning of the words? 
Erm... does he have sufficient knowledge of English? The Prophecy is 
ambigious, it is not that ambigious that anybody could not decipher 
that the one with the Power to destroy Dark Lord approaches, IMO.

Do you think Snape thought prophecy had ANY meaning? What meaning do 
you think he susbcribed to it? Are you arguing that for him Prophecy 
words were just Abracadabra of unknown language and Snape had no 
clue what they mean at all?

I can buy that Snape repented and tried to do a right thing later, I 
do NOT buy your Snape. Sorry! Because your argument IMO tries to 
absolve Snape of ANY wrong doings in regards to the Prophecy and 
that is IMO is not what canon says. If Snape did not wrong the 
Potters greatly in the first place, there would be no need for him 
to feel that remorse that according to Dumbledore Snape supposedly 
felt.

Alla,

feeling that she finds Magpie and Jen Reese position on that issue 
to be understandable, but thinks that she and Carol are probably on  
the opposite ends of the spectrum on this issue.