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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 182189

 
> Alla: 
> It seems that I have to do this disclaimer every single time when I 
> say it, so here it goes again, I do NOT wish for different story, 
> when I speculate this way, I am only thinking as if characters did 
> not know that they are within the story.
> 
> I love what transpired in the books for the most part, love in a 
> sense that for me it made wonderful, fast pacing story, etc.
> 
> Love as I am to hate Snape, I would not wish for any other catalist 
> in the story, I think JKR chose great, but it all does not stop me 
> from thinking what I described above.


Potioncat:
So...as if the WW is real, not as if an author had to create a story. 
As if we had Time Turners and could go back and fix things. 

I think if a witch went back and Obliviated Snape so that he couldn't 
tell the prophecy, events would still have led to the Potters' death, 
Lily's sacrifice and Harry as the Chosen One. Maybe Harry would still 
have been orphaned, or perhaps his parents would have been killed 
when he was older. But I think there were enough actions in place 
that not much would have changed. For example, Remus told Harry the 
Order members were being picked off, one-by-one; and LV went after 
one witch himself. The Potters had already defied him 3 times and I 
think they would be targeted.

So, the TT-witch would have to go back and keep Trelawney from 
speaking the prophecy. Except, since this is the WW, I think there's 
a good chance that something would cause her to go into a trance and 
announce it at a different time. Perhaps not in front of DD, but 
around someone who would still tell LV. This time there wouldn't a 
well-meaning wizard trying to help the prophecy along.

Or, the TT-witch would be successful. No prophecy at all. Would the 
lack of it change anygthing? Pippin offered a good story-line with 
the war continuing and the WW a very unpleasant place. 

I'm trying to look at what would have to change in order for Harry to 
have a happy life with his parents. Like Pippin, I think we'd still 
have Peter giving information to LV. And of course, Snape turns out 
badly at any rate. So I think we have to get the TT and go back 
farther. We have to go back (I think) all the way to Merope and 
somehow keep her away from the Muggle Tom Riddle.

OH THIS IS GOOD!
No Riddle
NO Death Eaters
Less Pure-blood mania
No "Your Death Eater Friends"
No "Filthy Mudblood"
We'll still have Ron and Hermione and Neville and Draco. I don't know 
if we'll have "Professor" Snape. Or if we do, he'll teach DADA. It 
channels his interest in Dark Arts in a healthy way. Hagrid may have 
actually kept his wand and be off at a dragon preserve. 

I'm not very sure what effect it'll have on Harry Potter--more like 
his father James and maybe something like his mother Florence. 
Perhaps he'll have a crush on the green-eyed Sylvie Snape, the 
daughter of Severus and Lily Snape.

Oh, I do like your ideas Alla. It's the only way a good outcome can 
happen for Snape. 

Now, to get out the TT and find a way to change that Severus/Lily 
ship.