[HPforGrownups] Snape and Peter, Peter the Traitor, Sirius, Malfoy

[devika261 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22045

In a message dated 7/5/01 4:36:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pigwidgeon37 at yahoo.it writes:


> Speaking of Snape, I wonder why he didn't know anything about Peter 
> being the spy? If Peter had been passing informations for one entire 
> year, it seems quite impossible that he and Severus have never met in 
> a DE meeting. Is it possible that Snape knew it but didn't tell 
> dumbledore anything because of that ridiculous schoolboy-grudge?
> 
> 

I had thought of that too.  However, it is possible that Snape did not know 
that Peter was a DE.  After all, the DEs did wear masks to their meetings, 
and, if we can believe Karkaroff, they did not know the names of all of the 
members.  I do think, though, that Lucius Malfoy knew, or at least knows now, 
that Peter is a DE.  IIRC, Peter stood next to Malfoy in the circle that the 
DEs formed at Voldemort's rebirth, and it seemed that they stood in a 
specific order.  I would think that they would know the people they stood 
next to.
There's something about this that confuses me, though.  *If* Lucius Malfoy 
did know that Peter was a DE, then he would have known all along that Sirius 
was not the spy who had been giving Voldemort information about the Potters.  
But Draco's comments in PoA imply that he heard from his father that Sirius 
was responsible for the Potters' deaths (something that not many people knew, 
according to Fudge).  So did Lucius Malfoy tell his son that Sirius had been 
a faithful Death Eater who had sold his best friend to Voldemort?  Or did he 
say that he was a traitor to all the DEs because he had caused the downfall 
of their leader?  What exactly does Lucius Malfoy think of Sirius?  And now 
that he and all the other DEs certainly know that Peter is alive, what will 
happen?
Anyway, enough rambling...back to Snape.  I don't think he could have known 
that Peter was a Death Eater.  I don't think his grudge against James could 
have gone so far as to allow Peter to help Voldemort plot James's death, 
especially since Snape was so loyal to Dumbledore.  Also, Snape did feel that 
he owed James his life, since James had once saved his.  Dumbledore told 
Harry that Snape may have saved Harry's life in his first year to repay the 
debt to James.  If Snape tried so hard to protect Harry, why wouldn't he have 
done something to save James?  I know that Snape is petty and vindictive and 
can hold a grudge for a very long time, but I also believe that he is 
extremely loyal to Dumbledore and can put his own feelings aside for what he 
believes is the greater good--which would most likely have included 
protecting the Potters.

Devika

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