Dumbledore Does Lie (Re: What turned Snape)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 159045

> Mike again:
> I just don't think you can have it both ways. You can't say that 
> Snape needs to have his ear to the keyhole in order to hear the 
> prophesy, but Albus can hear everything going on outside the door 
> while standing up in the room (and, mark you, still listening to 
> what Sibyll is saying). If Albus doesn't need to be listening at 
the 
> keyhole to hear what's going on outside, then Snape doesn't need 
to 
> be listening at the keyhole to hear the prophesy. Anything in 
> between means that DD cannot be as certain as he was as to how 
much 
> of the prophesy was overheard. And DD was very specific in OotP as 
> to exactly how much of the prophesy was overheard.
>

Tonks:
OK, let put it all together.  The door is thick wood. DD and Sybil 
are in the room. For some reason Snape is at the door, listening. 
(We don't know if he was following DD or just trying to see who was 
there. But this doesn't matter.) Snape hears the first part. The 
barman comes up the stairs. Starts talking to Snape which takes 
Snape away from hearing the rest. DD knows nothing about what is 
going on, because again the door is thick. Then the barman and Snape 
bust into the room.  DD uses Legimency on Snape to see what he 
knows. This is how DD knows how much Snape has heard. Snape is still 
young and not the expert Occumens that he is now. End of story.

Now if you don't belive this, the other option is that when Snape 
defected from the DE, he told DD what he had heard. And since DD 
trust Snape, that is why he says that Snape overheard only the first 
part.

Tonks_op