[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as DE - The Old Crowd

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 16832

> Why are you so sure that Sirius didn't know that Snape was
> once a DE? Just wondering. I think he always knew it, but he
> didn't know that Snape had changed sides, and that this is one
> of the reasons he still hates Snape so much, even more than 
> during his schooldays. Sirius told the trio in the cave scene that
> Snape was hanging around at Hogwarts with a gang of Slytherins
> who almost all became DEs later, and I think this included Snape.


On Page 461 of GoF, in the same scene in the cave right after he
makes the comment mentioned above, Sirius describes the fates of
these various Slytherins and then says: "But as far as I know, Snape
was never even accused of being a Death Eater - not that that means
much.  Plenty of them were never caught.  And Snape's certainly
clever and cunning enough to keep himself out of trouble."  

And on the same page: "...but I just can't see him [Dumbledore]
letting Snape teach at Hogwarts if he'd ever worked for Voldemort."

Makes Snape's sneering at Harry as a "celebrity" in earlier books
more intelligible: here's Snape who's actually done very dangerous
things for the Right Side and nobody knows about it.

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