Snape spy timeline in VW1

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No: HPFGUIDX 175987

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Christine Maupin
<keywestdaze at ...> wrote:
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> If in the fall/winter of 1995 Snape has been teaching 14 years, he
began teaching in 1981. James and Lily were killed October 31, 1981.
He might have started teaching September 1 or the term after they
died.  I suspect he started September 1, which would help explain why
he was in Dumbledore's office as he mourned Lily.
>
> Its late, I'm tried, so I won't be offended when someone checks
>  my math (which generally is not as good as JKR's).



Yes that all makes sense, thanks for that.

I still feel very grieved for Snape, he is such a tragic figure and
gets so badly treated by virtually everyone in the books. I am an
avowed Snape fan and was convinced all along that he would 'come
good' in the end. There were heated discussions in this household
post HBP as my 15 year old son was convinced that he was totally evil.
I have never found myself so emotionally engaged by a character
before Snape. He is so unpleasant throughout the books and yet at the
end is finally shown to have been a 'moral' character all along and
the word 'brave' doesn't seem to come close to doing him justice. Yet
he receives virtually no recognition at the end and seemed in a way
discarded as an inconvenient character to have survive. Many have
said that JKR didn't like him, there may be truth in that, he is an
unlovely personality. Perhaps the message I will take from it is that
even the 'unlovely' we meet in the real world have their story to
tell and that we should not judge to harshly for none of us truly
knows the others tale.

I just so wish he could have had a little more public vindication
than the brief mention in the final confrontation and the naming of Harry's second son after him. I'm sure all the surviving OoTP members
had to re-examine their thoughts about Snape in the aftermath but 'I'
needed to see something of it. Even a sentence or two about him from
Dumbledore in 'Kings Cross' would have helped. So four weeks after
reading the book and with two re-reads I still feel bereft.

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