Snape the Spy

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 167784

Dana before:
> > HBP pg 513 UKed Paperback
> > 
> > 'You have no idea of the remorse Professor Snape felt when he 
> > realised how Lord Voldemort had interpreted the prophecy, Harry.'
> > 'I believe it to be the greatest regret of his life and the 
> *reason* 
> > that he returned-'

> Julie:
> Thanks for the full canon quote supporting my position. If
> that's why you posted it? DD doesn't mention the debt, but
> he does note Snape's remorse, and his belief that relaying
> the prophecy was the greatest regret of Snape's life. Or 
> am I missing something else you see implied in DD's words?

Dana now:

Yes, You missed something because it doesn't say Snape regretted 
bringing the prophecy to LV but only on *HOW* LV interpreted the 
prophecy. 

HBP pg 512 UKed

'Professor Snape made a terrible mistake. He was still in Lord 
Voldemort's employ on the night he heard the first half of Professor 
Trelawney's Prophecy. 
Naturally, he hastened to tell his master what he had heard, for it 
concerned his master most deeply. But he could not know - he had no 
possible way of knowing - which boy Voldemort would hunt from then 
onwards, or that the parents he would destroy in his murderous quest 
were people that Professor Snape knew, that they were your mother and 
father-'

End quote from canon.

Of course you can read it anyway you want but Snape did not defect, 
when LV was murdering other families, before the prophecy was made 
and he hated James with a vengeance.

And in PS DD, only assessed Snape trying to safe Harry's life because 
he wanted to settle the score with James, not that he was so 
concerned with Harry for Harry. So we have to assume these two things 
are not related because Snape was so concerned LV was going to kill 
people (He has been doing nothing else) and not just because the 
choice of *who* LV was going to kill? 

> Julie:
> Oddly I agree with you here. But I think DD isn't telling
> Harry the *whole* story. DD tends to lie by omission, not
> by telling outright untruths. I don't believe he'd tell Harry
> that Snape felt great remorse if he didn't truly believe it 
> himself. Which brings us back to BlindOldFool!Dumbledore 
> if Snape invented his remorseful tale and DD fell for it
> hook, line and sinker. I don't buy that Dumbledore either.

Dana:
Yes, that figures because it is always DD not being honest or 
omitting things, when it concerns Snape, because forward reading just 
does not seemed to cut Snape any slag. JMHO 

Dana