...About Snape - Edgar Bones was killed, with his wife and children...

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 171359

vmonte wrote:
The previous poster mentioned that Snape did not know that a child
was going to be targeted by Voldemort. And that Snape never realized
that Voldemort was evil enough to go after a child

colebiancardi:

actually, I asked that under the thread of prophecy musings.  I had
wondered, based on the actual wording of the prophecy, if Snape knew
it was a baby or not.  If he didn't and then found out it was a baby,
someone who is defenseless, not the raging Hero who could fight a
battle, would that have turned him.

No one stated for a fact that Snape did not know it was a child.  It
was a thought and a good one at that, even if I say so myself :)

As far as "Snape never realized that Voldemort was evil enough to go
after a child", didn't Sirius, in OotP, tell Harry that a lot of
people supported LV and the whole pure-blood idea until they found out
what he was going to non pure-bloods.  That is when the support began
to stop.  I believe it was in the chapter where Sirius talks about
Regulus's death and his family.

colebiancardi