GoF CH 27-29 Post DH look/ Snape and Harry redux

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182183

 
> Alla:.
> 
> I mean, yes, of course Lily and James could have died at war,
nothing  is a certainty, but they would not have NEED to go in hiding
but for  Snape and even if they died, Harry at least may not have been
marked  IMO.

Pippin:
According to JKR, they were full time Order members.
If they hadn't gone into hiding, wouldn't they have been killed a lot
sooner? Wouldn't Peter still have betrayed the Order, and wouldn't
Voldemort still have been killing Order members one by one? Even if
they lived, wouldn't it be in a world ruled by Voldemort? Wouldn't
Dumbledore have died that much sooner? And Snape would have been
Voldemort's puppet at Hogwarts in truth and not in seeming. I don't
think Harry's time there would have been a very happy one, do you? 
Probably he wouldn't have been able to go to Hogwarts at all. 

Pippin
hiding from the pile of tax returns downstairs