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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 147321

> Jen: We have canon straight from Dumbledore's mouth that Snape knew 
> the prophecy referred specifically to a child: "But he did not know--
> had no possible way of knowing--which boy Voldemort would hunt from 
> then onwards." (Seer Overheard, p. 512, Blooms.)
> 

Dumbledore is telescoping events here. Voldemort could not possibly
have decided to hunt Harry as soon as he heard the prophecy, since
Harry had not even been born at the time. Pregnancy being what it is,
Harry and Neville could as easily have been born a few days later,
in August, and Voldemort would no doubt have decided the prophecy
couldn't mean either of them.

Think of this, too. Dumbledore has now conveyed the prophecy to Harry.
If Harry gets himself killed trying to fulfill it, will his death be 
Dumbledore's fault? Surely not.

Pippin