[HPforGrownups]Snape & James vs Sirius(WAS Is Snape unfair with House Points?)

[Anne(Anja)]

No: HPFGUIDX 56863

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Linda" <KIDATHEART_ at C...> 
wrote:
>    IMO, Sirius's current hatred of SS probably stems from Snape's 
DE 
> activities. At the time that we see Sirius's hatred at its 
> strongest, he has just recently escaped Azkaban. Unless he already 
> knew, during VW1, that Snape was spying for Dumbledore, he would 
> have had no way to find out post Azkaban, at this point in the 
> story. If he didn't know, it would explain his shock at the 
> revelation that Snape was teaching at Hogwarts. He still thought 
> that SNape was a loyal DE. There was no time for him to rationalize 
> in the shrieking shack that Dumbledore might know something that he 
> doesn't. I'm sure, since DD was coresponding with him in GOF, that 
> he now knows DD's reasons for trusting SS but he may not have yet 
> made the leap of faith required to put this long smoldering hatred 
> and distrust aside just yet. This would fit in to the way he looks 
> at SS at the end of GOF.
> 

Sirius didn't know at all that Severus was a DE .
Here's what he says in GOF after Harry , Ron and Hermione have told 
him about Karkaroff showing Snape something on his arm. 

"But as far as I know, Snape was never even
accused of being a Death Eater - not that that means much. Plenty of 
them were
never caught. And Snape s certainly clever and cunning enough to keep 
himself
out of trouble."

and later :

"There's still the fact that Dumbledore trusts Snape, and I know 
Dumbledore trusts
where a lot of other people wouldn't, but I just can't see him 
letting Snape teach at
Hogwarts if he'd ever worked for Voldemort."

As much as he loathes Severus , Sirius doesn't think him to be a DE , 
not even a former one. I really wonder what will happen when he finds 
out that DD is actually employing someone who had worked for 
Voldemort once. 

         Anja