HBP: Discrepancy with timeline, help

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

I think spoiler spaces are dumb.  What the hell are you doing here, 
anyway, if you haven't read HBP?  Turn off the computer and read the 
book.  I think spoiler spaces are dumb.  What the hell are you doing 
here, anyway, if you haven't read HBP?  Turn off the computer and 
read the book.  I think spoiler spaces are dumb.  What the hell are 
you doing here, anyway, if you haven't read HBP?  Turn off the 
computer and read the book.  I think spoiler spaces are dumb.  What 
the hell are you doing here, anyway, if you haven't read HBP?  Turn 
off the computer and read the book.  I think spoiler spaces are 
dumb.  What the hell are you doing here, anyway, if you haven't read 
HBP?  Turn off the computer and read the book.  I think spoiler 
spaces are dumb.  What the hell are you doing here, anyway, if you 
haven't read HBP?  Turn off the computer and read the book.  I think 
spoiler spaces are dumb.  What the hell are you doing here, anyway, 
if you haven't read HBP?  Turn off the computer and read the book.  
How many times do I have to repeat myself?

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:

> the biggest discrepancy I've spotted, since I can't resolve it and 
it's
> either a Flint or I'm missing something.
> 
[snip]
> 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?

Why couldn't Snape have repented during the time period between the 
prophecy and Voldie's downfall.  There's at least a year in there.

I found a potential Flint in this scene, too.  Trelawney says that 
she saw Snape come in.  That means that she was out of her trance -- 
therefore she had spoken the whole prophecy.  But if Snape was still 
in the vicinity, doesn't that necessarily mean that Snape heard the 
WHOLE prophecy?  We know that the person who told Voldie only heard 
half of it.  There's 2 explanations I can think of:

1.  The person who heard 1/2 the prophecy was some other than Snape, 
although in that case the corridor outside the upstairs room in the 
Hogshead was getting awfully crowded.

2.  Aberforth found Snape eavesdropping in the hall and distracted 
him so that he didn't actually hear the second part of the prophecy 
even though he was outside the room.  This seems unlikely -- Snape's 
a pretty powerful wizard, and it's been pretty clearly stated that 
Aberforth is pretty dim.  Hard to believe Snape didn't have a handy 
spell that would have allowed half of him to listen and the other 
half make excuses to our favorite goat fancier.

JZM