HP Timeline: Neville, Harry, Spoilery

[mooseming]

'This will not do,' said Elizabeth.
You will never be able to make both of them good for anything.
Take your choice, but you must be satisfied with only one.
There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to 
make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about 
pretty much.'

Elizabeth Bennet in
Pride and Predjudice
by Jane Austen

'Phooey'
Mooseming
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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:

> > > 
> That's a thought Jo, because Snape took the Potions position at
> Hogwarts in 1981.  So we can make the assumption that not only did
> Snape eavesdrop on the Prophecy, but he also gave Voldie the names 
of
> Neville and Harry. That would make the leading up to events in 
October
> 1981 like this:
> 
> Before October:
> 1. Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he's a Death Eater, he's seen
> the light, he wants out, and oh by the way, he heard the prophecy 
and
> he passed it onto Voldie.
> 2. A convinced Dumbledore hires Snape.
> 3. Snape looks in the Book of Magical Children and passes that 
info to
> Voldie.
> 4. Voldie makes his choice.
> 
> During October:
> 1. Dumbledore informed that a spy betrayed the Potters (possibly by
> Snape who does this in an attempt to flush the Potters out for 
Voldie) 
> 2. October 24: Pettigrew made Secret Keeper and Potters go into 
hiding
> at Godric's Hollow  
> 3. Halloween 1981
>  
> Makes sense but it hinges on Snape being "Evil" (and I  think 
Rowling
> gives us good arguments for and against that so she can go either 
way
> in Book 7 and still make it convincing)
> 
> Milz

Ah but does it? There was another spy, Wormtail, active for over a 
year. 'Voldemort went to the Potters on (his) information' PoA, this 
reference could have been to his secret keeper betrayal alone but it 
could also encompass all the information he passed on.  

So timeline is:

Snape overhears prophecy
Tells Voldy
Something happens to Snape/Voldy dynamic which makes Traitor!Snape
Voldy sends Snape to find info on babies at Hogwarts
But Snape joins DD
Snape fails to get info from Hogwarts citing DD mistrust as reason
Voldy sends in Rat as mole
Snape learns of Voldy update, tips off DD
Secret keeper made
Secret keeper blabs
Snape goes to GH to warn Potters but James doesn't believe him 
('You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to believe you 
might be mistaken in Black' Snape in POA)
Harry + Voldy = Vapour!Mort

Voldy reborn
Snape pays a visit and has a lot of explaining to do, but he is 
skilled in Occlumency and there's an antidote to Veritaserum. So he 
could pull it off.

Regards
Jo

I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher, who believed the 
time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.