Book 3- Snape; Neville; Sirius

[yyhgnumberonejgn at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8759

Alright, I was rereading Book 3 again today, and I have a couple of things on 
my mind.
On page 204, US hardcover, Fudge says (speaking to Rosmerta in Hosmeade about 
Black): 
"Not many people are aware that the Potters knew You-Know-Who was after 
them. Dumbledore, who was of course working tirelessly against You-Know-Who, 
had a number of useful spies.  One of the tipped him off, and he alerted 
James and Lily at once."
Does anyone think that this useful spy was Snape?  Maybe that's why 
Dumbledore trusts Snape. Just a thought.

A small, sorta unanswerable thing, page 213: "He watched, as though somebody 
was playing him a piece of film, Sirius Black blasting Peter Pettigrew ( who 
resembled Neville Longbottom ) into a thousand pieces."
Why did JKR put that part in parentheses about Neville there?  Many times, 
little things that we just overlooked at first has ended up that ended up 
being a forshadowing of some sort... Can this be one?  If it is, in what way? 
 Any theories? It's true that we don't know much about Neville except that he 
seems to be really really clumsy.  Is Neville hiding something?  Or maybe 
it's something that even Neville doesn't know about... I don't know... I'm 
kinda just blabbing.

Last thing.  At the end of Book 3, when Sirius was caught, and when they all 
were saying that they couldn't trust just 2 kids instead of an adult(Snape), 
thinking Sirius Confounded both of them, why didn't they use the truth potion 
on Sirius?  I know that the dementors had permission to perform the Kiss and 
all, but this really is a life-or-death situation. Shouldn't they have given 
Sirius the chance?  They didn't have anything to lose-- if Harry and Hermione 
were Confounded, Sirius would say that given the truth potion.

-Y.Y.


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