Prophecy what-ifs.

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 187571

 
> Potioncat wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187565>:
> 
> <<[I'm] wondering why if Lily narrowly escaped LV three times, it's LV's 4th attempt that causes Snape to ask DD to save her. >>


> Catlady:
> The Prophecy said she defied him three times, not that each defiance was a narrow escape from death.

Potioncat:
"Narrowly escaped" is DD's words, not mine. When he was explaining that the prophecy could mean 2 boys he said both had a set of parents "having narrowly escaped Voldemort three times." 

Now, to my mind "defied" and "narrowly escaped" does not mean the same thing. On the other hand, it could be correctly said that Harry defied LV in the graveyard or that Harry narrowly escaped LV in the graveyard. So I guess it works.

The only thing that makes any sense to me is that Snape did not know Lily was part of the Order until the moment that LV targeted the Potters directly.