Was Snape at Godric's Hollow? The answer is in HBP!

[justcarol67]

Please skip this post if you haven't read HBP.


Karen Barker wrote:
> > 19) Did Snape actually help LV at Godric's Hollow?  I definitely 
> think he was there and based on the fact that I'm going through 
> a 'Yes' phase to Q2, I'll say Yes to this too!


Carol responds:
This question is definitively answered in "Spinners's End." Bellatrix
demands to know where Snape was when the Dark Lord fell, meaning that
he was *not* at Godric's Hollow or she would not have asked. Snape
reminds her of what she already knows, that he was sent by the Dark
Lord to teach at Hogwarts, presumably to fill the vacant (and jinxed!)
DADA position.

This answer does not lay Bellatrix's doubts to rest--she still
suspects that Snape is secretly loyal to Dumbledore--but it does
answer that particular question. Whatever Snape's motives (and I think
Bellatrix is right to suspect him), we know this much:

Snape could not have helped LV at Godric's Hollow because he wasn't
there. He was already teaching at Hogwarts.

Carol, who has much more to say on this question but is trying to stay
with the facts here