Lily's friend - Snape's grudge

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 15153

Following on from the whole Sirius/Snape saga, there is something 
which has always confused me.  If Snape was a DE, one would assume 
that he knew that Wormtail was the spy - afterall, Wormtail is a 
fellow DE.  Therefore one would also assume that Snape knew, albeit 
however deep down, that Sirius was innocent.  Do you think that this 
was somehow concealed from him, or did his hatred of Sirius give him 
a selective memory?

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> zora_djevojka at y... wrote:
> 
> > Not really an answer to Catlady's question, but why didn't teenage
> > Snape push to get Sirius expelled. He could have, he certainly
> > believed that Sirius attempted to kill him through that "prank".
> 
> How do we know that he didn't? Sirius himself makes the comment
> someplace that Snape was always following them around, trying to get
> them expelled. I'm betting that Snape *did* try to get Sirius 
expelled,
> on this and probably other occasions, but that Sirius had managed 
to let
> the info about the tunnel "slip" or be overheard or something other
> than, "Hey, Sev, ol' buddy ol' pal, here's where we go." Only the 
latter
> would indicate intent, and only clear intent would be enough to 
expel (I
> think).
> 
> Kind of adds a dimension to Snape's "whoops" slip of the tongue 
about
> Lupin being a werewolf. Doing the same to Lupin as Lupin's friend 
did to
> him. ["Oh, terribly sorry, did I *say* that? My mistake...." but 
damage
> done.]
> 
> --Amanda
> 
> 
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