Snape's part in death of Sirius (some FF)

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No: HPFGUIDX 108304

> Pippin:
> According to my theory, Dumbledore already suspected a mole 
> at Christmas, and had shared his suspicions with Phineas, 
> whom Dumbledore sent to check conditions at HQ before 
> sending Harry there. Snape is therefore not the suspected mole, 
> since he was at Hogwarts at the time, and neither is Kreacher, 
> since he was at HQ when DD sent Harry there at Christmas.
> 
> Key to my  version of events is that Snape does *not * know that 
> Harry made contact with Grimmauld Place. Harry was 
> "concentrating hard on what he had seen in his dream" not on 
> his communication with Kreacher. If Snape *had* seen that, then 
> he would have known when he contacted HQ the first time that 
> Kreacher had given Harry bad information, and then indeed 
> things should have gone  differently.<snip> 

Neri:
I liked the FF. However, if DD told Snape he can't trust HQ and then 
went incommunicado, then all the blame is on him. He left Snape all 
alone on the front position. In fact, if I'd thought DD indeed did 
such an irresponsible thing, I'd think he should be kicked out of the 
commander post immediately. Perhaps Snape should replace him.

I still have a hard time understanding how DD couldn't be reached 
when Snape finally warned the Order. However, since we know he was 
due in HQ then, I tend to reconcile it by saying that he was on his 
way to HQ by Thestral or by broom or something that did not allow him 
to communicate, so he was actually unavailable only for the short 
period of the journey. It would be extremely strange if DD cannot be 
usually contacted from his own HQ. If he was suspecting a mole in HQ 
this was all the more reason to give any Order member at Hogwarts a 
mean of communication with him.

When I was in the army, not listening to the communication network 
was considered an offence equal to deserting your watch. Updating HQ 
about any development was pretty much reflexive. I don't even know 
how serious an offense was failing to update HQ, since I can't 
remember a single such case. 

Neri