A rather obvious clash I hadn’t noticed before, and don’t recall seeing discussed on LW:
In chapter 46, after going in front of the Dementor and (apparently) remembering his parents’ death, Harry abruptly comes up with a rather complicated set of deductions about the events surrounding Voldemort’s learning of the prophecy about him. It all seems plausible enough (though who’d trust so long a series of merely probable deductions?), and a key point is that McGonagall must have been the one who heard the prophecy, she must have told Dumbledore, and Dumbledore must have told Snape, foreseeing that he would go to Voldemort and maybe get Lily’s life spared.
In chapter 86, Harry asks Snape about the prophecy, and Snape says he heard it himself; there’s no obvious sign that he’s lying or deceived, nor that Harry (then or later) thinks he is. But this is completely inconsistent with his earlier reasoning, which he has seemed pretty confident about.
A rather obvious clash I hadn’t noticed before, and don’t recall seeing discussed on LW:
In chapter 46, after going in front of the Dementor and (apparently) remembering his parents’ death, Harry abruptly comes up with a rather complicated set of deductions about the events surrounding Voldemort’s learning of the prophecy about him. It all seems plausible enough (though who’d trust so long a series of merely probable deductions?), and a key point is that McGonagall must have been the one who heard the prophecy, she must have told Dumbledore, and Dumbledore must have told Snape, foreseeing that he would go to Voldemort and maybe get Lily’s life spared.
In chapter 86, Harry asks Snape about the prophecy, and Snape says he heard it himself; there’s no obvious sign that he’s lying or deceived, nor that Harry (then or later) thinks he is. But this is completely inconsistent with his earlier reasoning, which he has seemed pretty confident about.
I notice that someone is confused. Is it only me?