#me with sunglasses on drinking a maitai: lmao so?????

[snapedefender]

JKR has said that Snape knew it was about a baby when he told the prophecy to Voldemort, that he knowingly gave a child up to be murdered. Even if you want to play dumb about the super obvious wording referring to birth in the prophecy (and I don't see how you can while somehow still insisting Snape isn't stupid), it's fact that he knew.

idk why you keep messaging me when you know i dont agree with you & am not going to be swayed but okay let’s go

a) idgaf what jk said in interviews. i’ve said this before, but i don’t take into account author interviews or pottmore - what matters is what’s in the text and that’s it. if rowling wanted it to be clear that snape knew it was about a baby, then she should have made it clear in her books. but she didn’t so therefore, it’s easily possible that he didn’t.

b) snape gets the first few lines of the prophecy. i made a post about this a while back, but the first time the “seven month dies” is referenced, it’s not at all clear that it’s a recent july. the only requirements that snape (and voldemort) know are: a person born in july who has defied voldemort three times. voldemort has been around for decades - people who have defied him could be old enough to have older children: there’s absolutely no reason to assume that the chosen one couldn’t be an adult. more to the point, no sane person would assume that voldemort’s equal - or, at least, the one supposed to bring about his downfall - would be a baby. snape is on voldemort’s team; he knows how powerful voldemort is. there’s no reason his mind would jump immediately to baby esp when it isn’t at all clear in the lines of the prophecy that he hears (the first half) that it’s about a newborn child. (the “born as” line comes at the end of the prophecy & that’s what seems to make it a little clearer that it’s a baby - but snape doesn’t hear those lines.)

c) so no, the wording isn’t super obvious and no i don’t think it’s conflicting to highly regard snape’s intelligence & still not think he knew it was about a baby. would that be what YOU assumed when you first heard it - a prophecy about someone who would take down someone insanely powerful? it’s only “obvious” to us bc we already know it’s about harry. 

d) to be clear: it’s possible he figured it out, just as any theory is possible. we don’t know for sure & we can’t since we don’t have a snape pov of events. but critical analysis of the scenes surrounding these events leans more toward snape not knowing until after voldemort decided it was harry. sorry to disappoint u my guy but you coming to my inbox in a fit of moral outrage doesn’t really convince me that you’re right. 

#snape and harry #i mean you can keep messaging me but you've got to use something else bc nothing you've said so far has been convincing #also like.... using the 'but the author said!!' is the least convincing argument you could possibly use with me lmao #someone: but the author said! #me with sunglasses on drinking a maitai: lmao so????? #my meta #Anonymous