What would Snape have done if Lily had lived? (Was: Mothers)

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 187545

Alla wrote:
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> Yes, but in play by whom? All those prophecies in MoM that never come true make me think that it could have been spoken, but never played out, I know, I know in a different story :), but if I imagine this different story unfold, it so makes me hate Severus Snape so much more.
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> I mean, we had been through all the possibilities of what could have happened many times, but I just keep thinking that there was a chance that it could have never played out.
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Carol responds:
I agree with you about the unfulfilled prophecies in the MoM and that this one might never have been fulfilled, in which case Voldemort would have remained in power and there would have been no Chosen One. But Voldie brought it into play by trying to thwart it, and Snape made possible Lily's choice to die, which in turn brought about the Love Magic. 

Had any one of them acted differently, the Prophecy would not have been fulfilled, and "the one with the power" would never have acquired that power. Either he would have been an ordinary Wizard boy like Ron and Neville (with or without parents) with no soul-bit inhabited scar and no connection with Voldemort or he would have died because LV had made no promise to Snape and was free to kill all three Potters with no consequences.

None of them intended the consequences--Voldie vaporized, Harry the Chosen One, and a respite for the WW--but without their actions (Voldie trying to thwart the Prophecy; Snape reporting the Prophecy, repenting, and trying to save Lily; and Lily telling LV to kill her instead) the WW would simply have continued as it was with no one to thwart the to all intents and purposes immortal LV and the Order members being killed off one by one.

Obviously, I'm not giving Snape credit for consequences he never intended. All he wanted was for Lily to live. I'm only saying that his action in reporting the Prophecy turned out to be a good thing in disguise, and his action in trying to save Lily (as no other DE would have done) made her Love Magic possible. Otherwise, she would just have died like James *without a choice to live*, and Harry would also have died just like the McKinnon children.

Carol, who thinks that, sad though it was for Lily and James and hard though it was for Harry, the fulfilling of the Prophecy was a good thing for the rest of the WW, which received a thirteen-year-respite and was eventually saved by the Chosen One (with luck and help as usual)