Snape at Godrics Hollow

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 120483


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bee Chase <luckdragon64 at y...> 
wrote:
 
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> Luckdragon:
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> I think things would have happened quite quickly.
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> Sirius tells James to make Peter secret keeper, not knowing Peter 
is a traitor.
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> Peter runs off to tell Voldemort (Snape listens in)
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> Snape races off to warn the Potter's while Voldemort finishes 
talking to Peter and makes his own way to GH.
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> The Potters do not believe Snape. It is good friend Pettidrew vs. 
nemesis Snape.
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> Snape gets out just prior to Voldemorts arrival.
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Hickengruendler:

I think this were possible, if not for two points. When Snape found 
them, James and Lily must have known that Peter has betrayed them or 
at least has told somebody where they are hidding. Otherwise Snape 
couldn't have found them, and the Potters knew this.

The second point is, that if Snape overheard Peter telling Voldemort, 
than he must have known that Peter was the betrayer and not Sirius. 
Therefore he let Sirius rot in Azkaban for years, although he knew 
that Sirius was innocent. And later he caught him again and wanted to 
sent bring him back to the Dementors, eagerly awaiting his execution 
(which really is bad enough, even if he thought Sirius to be guilty). 
I wouldn't put this completely past Snape, seeing how much he hates 
Sirius, but IMO it would definitely destroy any possibility of him 
being redeemable.