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

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 147327

> Jen: The way Dumbledore presented his case in defense of Snape has 
> been reordered in the list above and I think the order is 
> significant:
> 
> 1) Snape had no way of knowing which child or parents would be 
> targeted. He didn't know the parents would be people he knew. 
> 
> 2) Snape could not have known how Voldemort would interpret the 
> prophecy. This fact comes **after** the first explanation, meaning 
> what Snape could not forsee was that Voldemort would interpret the 
> prophecy to refer to the Potters. Any other explanation discounts 
> the first fact Dumbledore presented.
<snip>

> If JKR wanted Snape's remorse to be that an infant was targeted, or 
> that he gave Voldemort the prophecy information without thinking 
> what it meant, *she would have written those words into 
Dumbledore's 
> mouth*. 

zgirnius:
While the order and the words were of course chosen by Rowling, she 
put them in Dumbledore's mouth. So we might consider why HE would 
make the statements in the order in which they were made. And he 
might have stressed the first point to impress on Harry that it was 
certainly not out of his animus for Harry's parents that Snape 
reported the prophecy to Voldemort. Since he could not possibly have 
known who would be the target of Voldemort.