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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 182285

 
> Pippin: 
> 
> Biblical prophecies are seen as calls to hope and redemption rather
> than predictions of certain doom. That might shed some light on why
> Dumbledore did not try to prevent the prophecy from reaching
> Voldemort.  Voldemort could have repented like the King of Ninevah,
> and turned himself and his people from their ways. Of course Voldemort
> did not repent. But Snape did. 
> 
> It makes me wonder, suppose Harry had told Ron and Hermione about the
> second prophecy. If Peter Pettigrew had been warned that his return
> would bring Voldemort back to power, would he still have gone back?
> 

Potioncat:
Although it was knowing that his actions caused Lily's death that made 
Snape repent, he had much to repent of before that point. The more we 
discuss how much his reavaling the prophecy affected Harry, the more I 
realise that Snape's fate is as wrapped up in this prophecy as LV's and 
Harry's.

As for Pettigrew, LV says that Wormtail came back out of fear. I think 
knowing LV would return to power, would have sped Peter on his way even 
sooner. He needed the biggest bully in the playground to protect him 
from Black and DD.

Only, I suspect, DD would have offered him redemption rather than 
retribution.