Snape and the Potters

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No: HPFGUIDX 47073

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Carol Bainbridge <kaityf at j...> wrote:


> being killed.  I started to wonder if Harry's dream is actually 
something 
> of a memory. 


 
Carol,
I've thought this for quite a while for more than one reason. The 
first being the fairly well accepted idea that it was Snape who 
tipped DD to the plot to go after the Potters in the 1st place.

The 2nd was in PoA during the Patronus lesson when Harry hears the 
voices of his parents...or what he ASSUMES to be the voices of his 
parents. Lupin's reaction is very odd to me here when Harry tells him 
he heard his father telling yelling a warning to Lilly (sorry, don't 
have the book--it's apparated into son's bedroom and I'm NOT going in 
there! Talk about chamber of secrets!) Anyway, I got the distinct 
impression from Lupin's reaction that Harry could not POSSIBLY been 
hearing Jame's voice. I don't know why, possibly because he had been 
killed earlier? Somewhere else? And Lupin knew it. 

As for the 3rd--My suspicion here was pretty firmly cemented when 
TMTSNBN was being hyped as having a scene specifically written by JKR 
herself and that she was ADAMANT about how it should be filmed and 
that she was PARTICULARLY adamant that JAMES NOT BE SHOWN!

Now, I don't know if the voice Harry heard was actually Snape trying 
to give a final, desperate and doomed warning or if it was, in fact, 
James but I am CONVINCED Snape was at Godric's Hollow that night in 
Some Capacity. I am also sure he's connected to the "missing" 24 
hours. You have some good ideas there. Snape was in mortal danger 
from any DE's who might have also been at the scene and witnessed 
this betrayal. A performance like that would CERTAINLY be enough to 
cement DD's trust in Severus Snape AND explain why in GoF he would be 
reluctant to tell Harry the reasons for that trust. 

Melpomene