Snape's Request gave Harry a second chance? (Was: Snape/Dumbledore thingummy)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 175824

Mim:
> 
> But to be born to parents who had thrice defied the Dark Lord he 
> couldn't have been very old. I think that it's vague as prophecies 
> go but it's obvious that it refers to a small child.

Ceridwen:
Voldemort had been around as a Dark Lord for a while before Harry was 
born.  He'd had eleven years of actively engaging the WW, according 
to PS/SS.  He'd had followers before then, according to the Pensieve 
scene where he applies for the DADA position.  The application for 
the position came ten years after his first application to 
Dumbledore's predecessor, Armando Dippet, who only refused him the 
post due to his youth and inexperience.  He had applied shortly after 
leaving Hogwarts.  That would put the second attempt somewhere in the 
1950s.  Dumbledore refusing him the position could be seen as a 
defiance of LV's wishes.

There is no reason to suspect that, at least in the eleven years 
before the Potters' deaths, others had not thrice defied him.  The 
One could have been eleven, or twenty-six, or a newborn, from the way 
I took this information.  Someone could have defied LV thrice by 
1981, and borne a child in July in the 1950s.  To me, it could have 
been any age between twenty-six and zero, given a vague 1956-ish 
reapplication for the DADA position.  Others may have had a different 
impression.

Ceridwen.