Snape and Marauders WAS :Draco and Intent

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 186873

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol responds:
> 
> I don't think James would be kicking himself for saving Severus, considering
> that had Snape not been spying on Dumbledore, some other Death Eater would have
> had the same assignment, and if some other DE had overheard some or all of the
> Prophecy and reported it, Lily would not have had the chance to be saved because
> Severus (who might or might not have been a DE) would not have known that
> Voldemort was targeting the Potters and could not have asked LV to spare Lily,
> giving her the chance for life that enabled her to perform the ancient magic
> that saved Harry. <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> So now it is a certainty that another DE would have had the same assignment? I certainly accept it as a possibility, but I also accept as a possibility that but for Snape no other Death Eater would have overheard the Prophecy and did not report it to Voldemort. And he would have never attacked Potters thus leaving Harry with two parents, who while fighting in the war would have still had a chance to survive and even if they were killed later still give Harry some years of happiness.
> 

Montavilla47:
Maybe.  Or maybe Voldemort would never have heard the prophecy and 
never invoked it, and consequently, never have been stopped by anything.

In which case, James and Lily, as members of the Order, might have been
killed in a matter of months--just like the other members were.  Remember
that they were "dropping like flies."

And, since the complicated set of circumstances in which Lily's refusal to
stand aside actually meant something (unlike the other mother who shielded
her children) would not have taken place, Voldemort could have killed
James, her, and Harry without the magical backlash.

Or sent his minions to do the same thing.