PPMW background - Snape/Sirius

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No: HPFGUIDX 29576

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Evil1ClaudeRains at a... wrote:

> I've been wondering if Snape testified for or against Sirius Black, 
if he 
> even testified at all or if Black had a trial.  Even if there wasn't 
a trial 
> or maybe Snape decided to stay out of it (either b/c he didn't want 
to help 
> Black or b/c he didn't want to make it known he was a former DE at 
the time.) 
> I'd've thought Snape might've known Pettigrew was a DE and Black 
wasn't.  

I've understood that Sirius never got a proper trial.

> 
> What I'm getting at is did Snape rise in Black's defense at all? Or 
even 
> consider it? Or maybe he really just didn't know Black's 
affiliations, or 
> Pettigrew's. Either way, as fond as I am of Snape, that man has 
serious 
> issues. 
> 

He probably didn't know about the Secret-Keeper-shift - but I think he 
didn't stand up: It's not Slytherin way...