Did Snape Try to Warn James at GH? (Re: Here is an interesting Snape one)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 120484


Kneasy:
> Certainly posters have speculated that there was someone else at GH
> (usually the finger points at Lupin, though Sevvy is second 
> favourite) I can't recall ever reading a truly convincing theory 
> as to why.
> This one would certainly work in plot terms, matching known or
> suspected character traits to  the action - though there's one 
> little question that Mooseming doesn't address - who gave Snape 
> the Potters location?
> 
> Sirius or Peter? And did that person know why Snape wanted to see 
> the Potters? Oh, yes. High potential for plot thickening here.

Jen: That is the question. Here's my guess. Snape was the 
eavesdropper in the Hog's Head. He has no idea who the prophecy is 
about, just a child to be born as the seventh month dies. He takes 
the info back to LV, who churns through all the possible children 
being born and discovers the possiblities are Harry and Neville.

Now suddenly Snape has some conflict. Sure he hates Potter and 
Black, would love to see them dead, but he also has the life debt. 
That's the little leak in the balloon that starts the process of 
Snape leaving Voldemort. Snape, being the only person who knows of 
the prophecy in the DE's, is second-in-command on this mission. He 
starts coming to Dumbledore with information as well, using his 
Occlumency to keep LV at bay. When Peter is made SK and spills the 
beans, Snape is in on that conversation. Peter has no clue about the 
propehcy and Snape has no clue what LV is planning, but all three 
are involved.

Once Snape figures out "how far Voldemort is willing to go," he 
blanches, makes some excuse and runs to the Potter home and makes a 
futile attempt to warn the Potters that Voldemort is on the way.

With that failure, Snape carries around not only the life debt to 
the dead man and perhaps a woman he didn't totally hate, but the 
knowledge he's indirectly the reason Neville & Harry have no 
parents. In true Snape fashion, that causes Snape not to bend over 
backward trying to atone to Harry and Neville for his mistake, but 
to push them away as severely as he can with harshness and anger. 
They are, after all, the living reminder of his failures. 

Oh, the ramifications are endless and conflicted for Snape. He just 
keeps making it worse for himself.

Jen