Dumbledore Does Lie (Re: What turned Snape)

[abergoat]

No: HPFGUIDX 159010


Dungrollin wrote:

> It's also possible that as Snape is listening at the door, Aberforth 
> interrupts and challenges him, preventing Snape from hearing the end 
> of the prophecy. Aberforth is unsatisfied with Snape's stammering 
> that he came the wrong way up the stairs (and let's face it, how un-
> Snapeish is that pathetic excuse? - it suggests to me that he's 
> *not* used to all this cloak and dagger stuff yet, he really is just 
> a young naive DE) and just as Sybil finishes the prophecy, Aberforth 
> flings open the door, revealing Snape to Trelawney and DD.

Abergoat writes:

But we've already seen that a pensieve gives more than the viewer
originally knew about (JKR has verified this) and what is Legilimency
but using the mind as a pensieve in place? Dumbledore could not say
with complete certainty that no one else had the prophecy unless he
had done something to the room. Snape has had a pensieve in his
possession, Dumbledore must know that even if Snape had extracted his
own memory he couldn't put an ear to the door and hear what Trelawney
was saying.

Besides, she speaks in a booming voice. It would be rather hard not to
pick up at least some of it. Aberforth had to stop to inhale during
his tirade.

It seems like the simplest solution, and JKR's 'problems' where
probably made in the earlier books, not book five and six.

Abergoat