HBP: Discrepancy with timeline, help

[bluesqueak]

Amanda Geist wrote:
>
> Okay. These don't add up. Lord Voldemort's downfall was the direct
result of
> learning of the prophecy, when he killed the Potters and got all
rebounded
> on.
>
> If Snape rejoined our side before V's downfall, wouldn't he
already be on
> our side at the time of the interview? Why would he have been
spying at all,
> and why would he have carried the prophecy back to V? Unless
Dumbledore was
> lying to Harry?
>
> If Snape didn't rejoin our side before the Potters died, was
Dumbledore
> lying to the assembly?

Pip:
No, they do add up. Trelawney made the prophecy before Harry was
born.

Then it took nearly a year after Harry's birth for Voldemort to find
the hidden Potters

Pip!Squeak

"Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not
known how to act?" - Severus Snape