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

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 166129

> 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?
<snip>

Dana now:
I did not base my assessment on how Harry interprets what DD said to
him.
DD tells Harry that Snape regretted the way LV interpreted the
prophecy and that he knew the people it involved and if he indeed did
then he must be sorry they are dead too right? Harry is
oversimplifying but he is not wrong.

I see no contradiction in what DD said and what he thought was Snape's
reason to turn.

>
> 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."

Where is it canon that he spied first and then took up the job? He
couldn't have spied without the job because defecting was no option,
he needed to hide behind LV's orders to go to DD and be a spy for
him, otherwise he would have been considered a traitor.

Karkarov's hearing we saw in GoF was after LV's down fall not before.
He wanted out of Azkaban after spending more then a year there and
turned over information to get out.

So if I missed anything and this is not the scene you are referring
to, please point it out to me. I never got the impression Snape was
already spying for DD before he started working at Hogwarts.

>
> 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

Climbing back on my chair


Dana