Trelawney's interview (was Re: CHAP DISC, HBP 25, The Seer Overheard

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 "julie" <juli17 at ...> wrote:

> 
> It also means that Dumbledore *let* Snape take the prophecy
> back to Voldemort. 


Potioncat:
Although I have proposed that either Snape was already DDM, or that 
Snape was at the Hogshead because he wanted to switch sides and was 
hoping to talk to DD. It is as likely that he was simply a DE. He 
could have been at the right place at the right time, or he could 
have been there on orders.

There are two points I'd like to make.

One is that DD knew the entire prophecy and knew what it would mean 
and still let Snape go. No, he didn't know who it was about. (I'm 
100% certain the interview is in October.)But he knew what it would 
mean. Either that, or he thought LV would interpret it differently, 
or react differently.

The second is that Snape only heard part of the prophecy and that 
does not specify a child not yet born, or even a child. It specifies 
a person whose parents defied LV 3 times and who was born in July. It 
could have been someone Snape's age.

So, DD knew what might happen, yet let things play out. No one seems 
upset about this. I still think Snape did not expect a set of new 
parents and their child to be targets, I think he expected a powerful 
wizard to be identified.

Another thought, although perhaps we would have already been told, 
what if Snape was following Trelawney? LV took the prophecy to heart, 
what if he had been expecting one? Snape may even have been assigned 
to get a job at Hogwarts, not to watch DD, but to listen out for more 
predictions from Trelawney.
 
>Julie: 
> Again, the only thing that seems certain out of this scene
> is that Snape wasn't DDM at the time. His change of heart
> came later (or, if one believes in ESE or OFH, he still 
> hasn't had a change of heart). 


Potioncat:
I'm coming over to this way of thinking, more and more. That the 
future DDM!Snape was a full DE at the time. The one thing that makes 
me hesitate is that DD does not say, a DE heard the prophecy, he 
says, someone in LV's employ.