What Snape knew, was Snape as a father figure (was: Re: Snape's "mind set?")

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 44337

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "theresnothingtoit"  wrote
>  
> But what if Snape did know. [that Pettigrew was the traitor] I 
think it would make an incredible  stand off between Sirius and 
Snape if Snape knew.  Snape probably  felt that Azkaban was the 
best place for Sirius and for all Snape  knew Peter really was 
dead.  I feel Snape still sees Sirius as the  reason that the 
Potters are dead.<<


That would mean that Dumbledore knew as well,  or that Snape 
kept it back. But I can't believe that Dumbledore would have given 
evidence that Sirius was the Potters' secret keeper if he knew it 
wasn't so. And I can't believe that Dumbledore would still trust 
Snape, if he knew that Snape had allowed this.

I think it far more likely that Snape knew that "Wormtail" was the 
traitor, but he believed "Wormtail" to be  Sirius Black. This would 
explain Snape's reaction to the Map in Snape's Grudge, where 
he seems to be sure that the nicknames are associated with 
Sirius but not with  Lupin.

 I can imagine that Snape broke cover to deliver a personal 
warning to James not to trust Black. For twelve years, Snape's 
told himself that if only the arrogant son of a witch had heeded 
him, James Potter would still be alive. Then, in the Shack, he's 
told that James did switch Secret Keepers, but not that James 
did so at Sirius' suggestion. So Snape is thinking that if James 
did switch, he did so on Snape's information. That's why he 
loses it...because he thinks if it's true that Sirius wasn't the 
Secret Keeper, then  Snape himself was responsible for the 
Potters' deaths.


Pippin