Snape Timeline....

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 188598

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:

> From the Prophecy, it is not clear exactly when it was made. 
> The way I see it "The one with the power to vanquish the 
> Dark Lord approaches... Born as the seventh month dies... " 
> seems to imply that Harry was either just about to be born 
> or had been recently born when it was made.


zanooda:

Harry couldn't have been "recently born" at the time of the prophecy because the prophecy ends like this: "...the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies...". So it was definitely before Harry was born :-). 



> Bart wrote:

> Other evidence, including testimony that Snape 
> spent some time as a spy for OOP Mark 1, implies that 
> was some time between Snape defecting and the Potter murders.
> I would like to posit that Snape spent from 6 months to a year 
> as a spy for OOP Mark 1 before Voldemort fell.


zanooda:

I agree with Zara on this and vote for almost a year or even more than a year :-). The hilltop meeting must have happened soon after Harry was born, right? August, September, or October at the latest? JMO, of course, no canon to support it, not really :-).


> Bart:
 
> Secondarily, there has been an assumption that nobody knows about 
> Snape's heroism in VW II. Can anybody give me a reason why Harry 
> wouldn't have revealed that Snape was a hero? 


zanooda:

I have no idea where this came from :-). My guess is some people think the epilogue shows that little Al doesn't know who he is named after, but I personally don't read it like this at all. I think Harry just reminds Al about his namesake, not *informs* him for the first time after whom he is named. And we also have JKR's interviews, where she says that Harry made sure that everybody knew about Snape's heroism and insisted that Snape's portrait was put at Hogwarts etc. Well, I don't consider her interviews canon, but for some readers this might mean something... :-).