Snape as Ultimate Hero

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 168215

-SKosmoskijr:

> He mentions that Dumbledore had a spy who alerted him 
> that the Potters were the next target, and that sent them 
> into hiding.I believe Snape was the spy....then, BEFORE 
> the Potters death. Here's my theory.

> Snape was a double agent working for Dumbledore long 
> before any of this. As a master occlumens (even better 
> than LV if we believe that Snape is good) he could even 
> have heard the entire prophecy and kept that from LV if 
> he wanted to.

houyhnhnm:

I think you are right about Snape being the one who alerted 
Dumbledore to the fact that the Potters were being targeted.  
It just seems so glaringly obvious.  It's the other shoe.
  
If Snape came to DD out of remorse over his contribution to 
the Potters' peril--and there is no reason to doubt the 
truthfulness of that statement, only that it tells the 
whole story--then it seems very likely that he brought 
that information to Dumbledore and that he continued to
report anything he could learn about the Potter conspiracy.

I agree, too, that there is something dodgy about the two 
accounts of the eavesdropping incident we've been presented with. 

The problem with Snape knowing the entire prophecy is 
that DD tells Harry in the Weasley's shed that the only 
two people *in the whole world* who know the entire 
prophecy are standing in that smelly, spidery broom shed.  
So that lets out Snape unless

1.  *Harry* hasn't been told the whole prophecy and the 
two people in question are Dumbledore and SpiderAnimagus!Snape 
on DD's hat. (I like this one a lot.)

2.  Dumbledore is already dead and Snape is impersonating 
him.  

3.  Dumbledore is lying. (He has promised never to tell 
Harry an outright lie and I believe him.)

4.  DD is still alive but Snape is impersonating him.  
Snape made no such promise.

5. Snape heard *most* of the prophecy, but missed the last 
few words that were basically restating the beginning.  He 
knows more than he told Voldemort, but he didn't hear *all* 
of the prophecy, so what DD told Harry was not technically 
a lie.  (The most plausible possibility, I suppose.)

I can't think of any more.