[HPforGrownups] Re: Nitpicky Snapethoughts - Snape's hysteria in PoA

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15239

foxmoth at qnet.com wrote:

>       I have a theory about Snape's behavior... he says,to Harry,
> "You'd have been well served if [Sirius had] killed you! You'd have
> died like your father, too arrogant to believe you might be mistaken
> in Black..."
>
>       Suppose what happened was this: sometime before the murder of
> James and Lily, Snape began to suspect that Sirius was the double
> agent. Snape couldn't prove it, but secretly warned James. Snape has
> thought all this time that James ignored his warnings and chose Sirius
> anyway and Snape is referring to this in the quote above.

This has been proposed before--I, too, think Snape was probably the one
who warned James & Lily. And think it cost him to do it, in personal
terms, too, but we'll leave my pet theory out of it. <g>

>       The idea that  James did in fact change secret-keepers provoked
> a hysterical rejection from Snape because if Snape did accept it, he
> would have to believe that he himself was responsible for James' and
> Lily's deaths.

Except Snape had not arrived in the Shack when Lupin and Sirius were
discussing the change. And he was out cold before Pettigrew was
revealed. See my way, way too long post on What Snape Knew and When.

>       Later, Snape might have learned from Dumbledore that Sirius
> independently suggested changing secret-keepers, which would have made
> it easier for Snape to accept the truth.

This is still true, even if Snape didn't learn about Pettigrew in the
Shack.

--Amanda


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