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

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No: HPFGUIDX 187559


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> Alla:
> I disagree, I mean I cannot disprove your alternative scenario, but in my opinion the scenario that plays out under the conditions that you describe make Snape to be a blameless tool in the hands of fate who had no choice. Could it work as you described? Sure it could, but it is also possible IMO that no alternate death eater would ever be there and Voldemort would have never heard it and prophecy would have joined the many that never came true.  From the storyline pov I love how it worked out too by the way. I would not have changed anything, I just like to imagine how much easier longer IMO Potters' life would have had if one Severus Snape would never came to it, but it is of course fanfic scenarios, not canon.
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Potioncat:
I don't see how either scenario makes Snape a blameless tool. It was his choice to tell LV. My point is only that there are other ways the prophecy could have played out. I would love to know the evolution of this plot line. Did JKR consider different variations until she hit on the final one? 

Here's another. Lily and James are in Hogsmeade and bump into Trelawney who goes into a trance and speaks the prophecy. James and Lily are very amused and tell the other Marauders about it. Of course Wormtail tells LV. And it's not until James and Lily realise that the prophecy was about Harry that they grasp the seriousness of it.

Do you think that if Snape had not told LV, that the prophecy would have worked out some other way? Like, Harry would have grown up and taken on LV? Because, I don't see any pleasant outcome if LV had vaporised himself in Godrick's Hollow. Or do you think if LV had not heard the prophecy that someone else would have been able to defeat him?

Again, I'm coming from the idea that once a prophecy appears in a storyline, it has to play out in some way.