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

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 182188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
> Alla:
> 
> Um, no, not for a fact. We know that not all order members were 
> killed. Who is to say that Lily and James would not have been 
among 
> the living?
> 
> I mean, again it is POSSIBLE that they would have been killed of 
> course, just as POSSIBLE that they would be alive. And thanks to 
> Snape and Voldemort, that other possibility did not have any 
chance 
> to play out IMO.
> 
Leah:  You can't say that there was no possibility of James and Lily 
living once Voldemort knew the prophecy, though there was clearly a 
reduced possibility.  Once James and Lily were under the Fidelius 
charm (thanks to Snape's information), then they might well have 
survived, if Dumbledore had been Secret Keeper, if Sirius had 
remained Secret Keeper, if Peter had not turned traitor, if James 
and Lily had kept their wands on them and had the invisibility cloak 
etc etc.  Plenty of chances to play out there.  And Snape is a 
contributory factor in the Potters' death, as are a number of 
others.  It is Voldemort alone who has full responsibility.

Leah