[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and the Potters

[Sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47157

In a message dated 11/24/2002 10:52:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
kaityf at jorsm.com writes:


> Me:
> I am too now.  My first inclination is to say that it's Snape who's yelling 
> 
> out the warning, although could give him away to Voldemort, although the 
> voice tells Lilly to take Harry and run and he'd hold "him" (meaning 
> Voldemort) off.  I suppose it would be possible that Snape arrived first to 
> 
> warn Lilly.  She may have had just enough time to run and grab Harry, but 
> that's it.  Maybe Snape stalled LV for a short while and thought Lilly had 
> had a chance to get away.  If the voice doesn't belong to James, which 
> seems likely, and it doesn't belong to Snape either, who could it belong 
> to?  If as I guessed, Lucius was there as well, it certainly wouldn't be 
> Lucius warning Lilly.  I hope we get more hints about that night in book 5.
> 
> 

Some thoughts:

1) Where the heck *is* James?  We know from the shades in the graveyard 
(order controversy aside for the moment) that James was AK'd  directly before 
or after Lily, so he must have been caught by Voldemort  or someone using V's 
wand at least sometime that night.

2) Why would Snape do this? And why would Voldemort not just zap him?  Even 
with LOLLIPOPS and James's life debt in play, (if you like) this is 
tantamount to suicide. 

3) I wouldn't doubt that Lupin is still upset over the Potters' deaths and 
probably shocked that Harry can remember this, even with a dementor's help. 

The Queen of Serpents


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