DD and Snape's Culpability

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No: HPFGUIDX 147334

 Steve:
 <SNIP>
 Again, you think you know the proper interpretation of the 
 Prophecy
 because Dumbledore explained it all to you, but if you look at 
it objectively, there is virtually no way to know it refers to the
 Potters and there about-to-be-born son.
 <SNIP>

 Alla:
 What I do NOT find logical is that Snape did not work out that
 Prophecy talks about ANY couple who gave birth to the baby who 
has a power to defeat Voldemort. I just find it THAT clear. I understand we disagree on that one, but that is what I think.

Potioncat:
 I agree with Steve, as stated somewhere upthread: from the first 
part of the prophecy, there is no way to tell it's about a baby. The one approaches may mean that an adult wizard is getting closer to his attack on LV. It could have meant a grown man with a July birthday whose parents had defied LV. LV had been around long enough for that.
 
So that Snape would not have a strong reason to expect it was about 
a young woman and her child. He was a DE and should have been held 
 accountable for his actions. Which I think he was by DD.
 
 My timeline may be off, but I think it's significant that Regulus 
and Severus came to a parting of the DE way at about the same time. We also have Sirius's statement that in the beginning, the WW didn't 
understand what LV was up to.
 
But, here's my real concern, did DD know that Snape was a DE that 
day when Snape overheard the prophecy? If he did, why did he let him 
go? 
Surely DD knew Snape would go straight to LV. If he didn't know, 
why  didn't DD take some action just to keep the prophecy a secret in general?


brady:

I think this is easily answered. DD, for one, is not a great believer 
in prophecies. Secondly, DD had heard the entire prophecy and knew 
what would/can happen if LV chooses to attack anybody. Third, DD was 
curious to know what interpretation LV makes out of it. 

I also have a feeling that Snape knows the complete prophecy. He only 
told LV what DD told him to tell. This is going by the assumption 
that DD knew that Snape was a DE and also assuming that Snape became 
a DDM! soon afterwards.

my tuppence.
brady.