24 hours - and the Evil Overlord.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103139

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" <shrtbusryder2002 at y...>
wrote:
 
> Jason:
> What about those of us who think V got the news from wormtail while 
> Snape was in the room? Maybe Im the only one? Upon making his exit, 
> Snape immediately gets word to DD that Voldemort has the potters 
> info. 
>  
> You might say that Snape would then know that Peter betrayed the 
> Potters. Maybe. But would Snape bother to correct them when Sirius 
> was caught "red handed?" I don't think so.
> 
> But maybe Snape didn't know Peter was the secret Keeper. Perhaps 
> he arrived shortly thereafter and then learned Voldy somehow knew.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Jason

Asian_lovr2: 

Any good student of fictional (and frequently real) Evil Overlords can
tell you exactly how this particulare scene played out.

Voldemort spoke to Wormtail/Peter in private; in case it was bad news,
he wouldn't want his evil horde of toadies and minions to know. 

Once he had the 'good' news, in true evil overlord fashion, he would
have announced his victory over the Potters to all his evil Death
Eater minions and anyone else who would listen. That's the cue for
Snape to sneak away an tell Dumbledore. 

Evil Overlords and villain alway prematurely announce their victory,
and in the process, give away all the details of their plan, and
ultimately make a fool out of themselves. It's a by-product of the
cursed 'supreme in his own arrogance' megalomaniacal God-complex,
'infalability of Gods and Kings' over-confidence in ones self.

When you are absolutely convinced of your own infalability, and like
to flaunt it, you are bound to make mistakes... no... no... it's
always the marginally retarded, never had an independant thought,
scared to death minion and toadies who make the mistakes. The plan
certainly must be fool-proof if it came from the next 'Lord and Master
of the Universe', so it has to be the fool-toadies who are at fault.

Sorry, strayed a bit, but you get the point.

Steve/asian_lovr2