Snape: ESE or DDM? Power of Love

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 167150

 
> firefly replies:
> Snape didn't come to Dumbledore until after the attack! You see? 
Snape,
> then a DE, told his Dark Lord about the part of the prophecy that he
> heard, believing that voldy would go after a stranger whom Snape
> neither knew nor cared about. However, unbeknownst to Snape, Voldy
> ended up killing James, who's death Snape wouldn't have cared about
> except perchance in respect to the life debt he felt he owed him, we
> are unsure about that. But Voldy also killed Lilly, whom IMO, Snape
> most definately did not want to be responsible for having helped 
kill.
> In utter remorse he THEN goes to DD who hears and understands that 
the
> power of Lily's love had redeemed Snapes lost and angry soul.  

Hickengruendler:

But this can't be. It's Harry's interpretation of Dumbledore's words, 
but it is wrong. We know from GoF, chapter 30, and from HBP, chapter 
2, that Snape started his work as a spy (no matter on which side), 
before Voldemort's downfall, therefore also before the attacks on the 
Potter. What Dumbledore really said, was that Snape showed regret, 
after he realized how Voldemort *interpreted* the prophecy. This 
could have been (and given the information from GoF probably was) 
months before the attack on Godric's Hollow. 

This, IMO, is a clear hint by JKR, that we are meant to question 
Harry's interpretation of the events in HBP (of course I'm not 
neutral in this sense, since I'm sure Snape is loyal to Dumbledore), 
since we definitely know one of his interpretations is wrong and will 
likely be corrected in Deathly Hallows. It is a comparatively minor 
one, of course, and does not prove anything about Snape's loyalties 
at all. But since I see no reason for JKR to have Harry be mistaken 
here, if we are only meant to learn, that Snape fooled Dumbledore a 
few months earlier than Harry thought, I expect this to be part of a 
bigger revelation.