HBP: Discrepancy with timeline, help

[bluesqueak]

Amanda wrote:

(and do we still need spoiler space? Has anyone on this list not 
finished the book?) 
> 
> No, they don't. Because according to this book, the event that 
pushed 
> Snape back to our side was remorse about the *outcome* of his 
> reporting the prophecy. That outcome was the attack on the Potters--
> but that was also Voldemort's downfall. So how could Snape have come 
> back to the good side, before Voldemort's downfall, when it was the 
> events of that downfall that caused the remorse?
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

"You have no idea of the remorse Professor Snape felt when he realised 
how Voldemort had interpreted the prophecy." - Dumbledore.

That doesn't have to be about the outcome. The realisation could have 
come before V. killed the Potters - providing Snape found out that the 
prophecy meant V. was *planning* to kill the Potters.

Pip!Squeak

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