Why DD did not ask Snape to kill him. (extremely long)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 166119

Dana wrote:
> > Just because Snape turned before GH and the death of the Potters
doesn't mean LV hadn't already made his decision about which family he
was going to take out. Snape having a lifedebt to James probably
figured, he could get rid of it by providing DD with this information,
save James and make the debt even, but the SK change caused a
different outcome and, although not known to Snape, he still blames
James for dying as a result of putting his trust in Sirius and messing
up his chance to get rid of the debt *before* LV would find a way to
get to Harry.
> > 
> > So logically there is nothing that contradicts DD's claim to Harry
about Snape regretting how LV interpreted the prophecy and DD thinking
it was his reason to return to the side of good.
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Oh, my goodness. This is brilliant Dana, this also makes Harry story
to the members of the Order after the DD death to be **not**
inconsistent at all.
>
Carol responds:
I don't see your logic here. Snape was spying "at great personal risk"
before Godric's Hollow, as Dana admits ("Snape turned before GH").
How, then, can Harry's story that Snape's remorse occurred *after* the
Potters' deaths not be inconsistent with the facts already presented
in canon? 

As Dana points out in the post you quoted, Snape first spies, then
becomes a teacher, then, two months into his teaching career, the
Potters are killed. Harry's version omits the spying career and the
two months of teaching and jumps immediately to Godrics' Hollow. It
transforms "how Voldemort interpreted the Prophecy" (which Snape
apparently reported to DD before he began spying) into "Voldemort
killed the Potters." 

Carol, who actually agrees with Dana here (except the part implying
that Snape wanted LV to get to Harry) but not with your interpretation
of her second paragraph