Prophecy musings...Was: Snape's the Rescuer - Really?/Justice to Snape

bfiw2002 bfiw2002 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 25 23:16:03 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 170786

> colebiancardi:
>
> being targeted in the prophecy, not an adult.
>
> If Snape only heard the first part of the prophecy, as DD states,
> Snape doesn't know it is someone who is yet to be born:
> > This also ties in with the other prophecy threads. We seem to
take it
> for granted, after the fact, that Snape *knew* it was a baby that
was

snippage
 ... it could just mean that the hero is
> coming to battle LV and is born to those parents who defied him 3
> times in the past. That the hero was born in the 7th month.
>
> LV interpreted it correctly, as a baby about to be born. But Snape?
> Did he really know it was a future hero, one yet to be born? He may
> have felt it was a wizard already here, a powerful one in fact. At
> that time, Snape doesn't know, at least I think he doesn't, the
whole
> past of LV and who LV battled with.
>
> Could it be, that once Snape found out that it was a baby and not
an
> adult wizard who could defend himself/herself, that was Snape's
wakeup
> call? That he could deal with battling against wizards and witches
who
> could strike back, but to kill in cold-blood, a defenseless baby?
No
> matter who the parents were, but the fact that it stepped over the
> line in the Wizarding War?  Hey, people switch sides for lesser
> reasons, you know.
>
> just another thought on the prophecy and trying to debunk the
Snape is
> "a murderin' baby killer" kind of guy.
>


Biff
I understand your point regarding not knowing, based upon what Snape
had heard, who or what the possible threat to Voldemort was and it's
a very good point. I also like your thought that perhaps the straw
that broke the camel's back for Snape was finding out that the
prophecy was about a baby and his Master inteneded to kill it.
However, I still have the opinion that Snape didn't go to Voldemort
with this information without understanding possible repercussions.
I believe he knew what he was doing, he knew someone could die and
he did it to please his Master.
Perhaps Snape did have huge regrets, I don't doubt that this is
possible. But I do believe that what we see in every book is a
continuation of that vein of personality in his cold cruelity to
Harry and others, which I don't beleive can be explained away. I
really do believe that Snape is in it for Snape, not to better
wizardkind or even to be Voldemort's right hand man. He is not a
black and white character- he is shades of grey....dark grey :)
Just my opinion, as always.

Biff







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