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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 161837


> Alla:
> 
> Does Snape also deserves a credit to contributing to the fact that 
> Harry **only** had fifteen months with his mom and dad?
> 

Pippin:

Let's not forget that there's an official mystery, stated by Hagrid
in Book One,  concerning why Voldemort didn't go after James 
and Lily before. After all, they'd defied him three times. What
was protecting them? The fact that one of their closest friends
was a Voldemort agent, and killing them would have dried up
a prime source of information for the Dark Lord? Don't you
think they might have told that close friend about the prophecy
in any case?

We've also been told that it's not safe to assume that one isn't
being overheard in the Hogs Head. Why did the prophetic
power manifest itself at that point? Just by chance? Does
Sybill utter prophecies in the shower or to her sherry bottles,
all unheard? Is the prophecy voice a broadcast that can be
picked up by any True Seer, or perhaps detected by centaurs?

Or did the prophetic power perchance select its hearers? Should
the label on the prohecy have read '& S.S.' ? And being prophetic, 
wouldn't the power also know what Snape was likely to 
do with the information? And of the remorse he would then feel
over doing so?

If that look of being a dog trapped in a burning house had nothing
to do with Snape's remorse over James, I'll eat my keyboard.
 Of course Snape is guilty for having told Voldemort about
the prophecy -- it would undermine his repentance and redemption
if he really had nothing to repent of. But does Harry need to
remind Snape that he'll never forget what he did? Why?

Pippin