Pondering a Snape thing

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No: HPFGUIDX 3135

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eliasberg at i... wrote:
> There is something bothering me.... Snape was a Death Eater 
> he showed us at the end of GoF and we know when the dark 
> mark burned on the arm we know they all congrigated around 
> Voldie. So Snape knew Wormtail was the traitor not Sirius, he 
> knows Sirius was an enemy of Voldies and next to die after the 
> Potters (he says that in PoA that Voldie would come after him, 
> but Snape would know because this would have been 
> discussed in the inner cicle meetings to plan the killings). 
> Snape knows who all the inner circle is and has all along, so the 
> only reason to treat Sirius badly isn't because he is Voldies right 
> hand man, just a boyhood grudge, just my opinion though I may 
> be wrong. Dave
	Karkaroff testifies in the Pensieve that the Death Eaters 
identities were kept secret from one another. So likely Snape only knew 
the names of those in his particular cell. Sirius tells us that a bunch 
of Snapes classmates were caught...3 guesses who turned them in!
	So,IMO, Snape only knew that someone close to the Potters was a 
traitor and thought, along with everyone else, that it was Black. In 
addition, even if he also knew Wormtail was a traitor, he wouldn't 
necessarily know that he was the actual secret keeper, in which case, 
Black, as the supposed secret keeper, would have to have been a traitor 
also. In POA Snape sounds like he tried to warn James. He says, 
speaking to Harry, "You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to 
believe he might be mistaken in Black"