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

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 120544


> > Kneasy: 
> > 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?
 
> Valky:
> Ohhh yes Easy Kneasy!, Snape is doing his spy work glued fast to 
> Voldys swishy cloak, when he happens upon a crumpled piece of paper 
> that fateful night, he craftily sneaks a peek and finds it to be a 
> note, written on parchment that bears the very insignia of the 
> Potter family itself, on it is written, "The Potters are located at 
> number street Godrics Hollow", of course.
> And voila Snapes conclusion that the one who betrayed James was 
> someone so close to them he could use the Potters own parchment and 
> seal to do it. 
> Of course this way he doesn't have any idea precisely *who* it is 
> that wrote the note, but it does seem more likely to be Sirius.
> 
> Hey, then again, maybe the note was written on Parchment bearing 
the 
> seal of the Noble house of Black. Peter did plan to frame Sirius 
> from the start, I believe.

Jen: Aha! The missing link. You're the crafty one, Valky ;). 

What time of day Snape goes to the Potters is the key. Peter betrayed 
their location sometime on Halloween, but we don't know how long it 
was between the time Peter left his secret location to tell 
Voldemort, and Sirius found Peter missing. Peter could eaily have 
left his hiding place Halloween morning, expecting to be back when 
Sirius checked on him that night. Instead, something blocked him from 
returning. 

So, like you postulated, Snape comes across the note Peter gave to LV 
disclosing the Potter's location, and Snape immediately rushes there 
in an attempt to get James & Lily to another location. When James 
refuses to believe Sirius would betray him, Snape leaves in disgust. 
Not long after that, LV appears.

I tend to take it at face value that James was the voice Harry heard, 
and that if Snape did go to the Potters that night, he was gone 
before Voldemort showed up. We already have canon evidence from the 
Occlumency incident that Snape is willing to give up on a vitally 
important task if he is humiliated. If James humilated him at GH, 
Snape would most likely chalk it up to Potter arrogance and leave.

Jen