JKR chat--Snape the coward or the one left forever?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 92652

> Carol wrote:
> As I've said, I think his position as seeming spy for Voldemort and
> real spy for Dumbledore is now in great danger of being exposed
> because both LV and Malfoy will (rightly) suspect him of having 
> acted for the Order instead of for them in the MoM affair. 
>  
> Susan:
> Carol, I'm intrigued as to why you believe Snape's now in great 
> danger of being exposed because of the MoM affair. Do you think 
> Voldy & Lucius believe DD only came because Snape must have told 
> him what was happening?  
> <snip> 
 
Carol:
> Yes. Exactly. Maybe I'm assuming, as usual, but Kreacher probably
> knew that Snape had contacted the Order members and he could well 
> have reported it to Malfoy or Narcissa. Even if Kreacher didn't 
> talk, there was no one else at Hogwarts who could have told 
> Dumbledore and the Order to go to the MoM to rescue Harry. (It 
> couldn't have been McGonagall, who was in St. Mungo's, and besides, 
> she knew less than Snape about LV's plans.)
> 
<snip> Dumbledore wasn't at Hogwarts and couldn't have
> known that Harry was heading for the MoM unless someone told him, 
> and who else could it be besides Snape? 


Susan:
Assumptions??  On *this* list?  Tee hee.  Of course we all make 
assumptions. :-)  And I think yours is plausible *but* I think there 
are others who might assume other things.  

A couple of possibilities for alternative scenarios I can think of 
are:

1) Is it not possible (though not very exciting, I'll grant), that 
Harry could have left a note w/ someone?  Maybe another DA member, 
with instructions to owl it to an Order member [Dung, Moody, 
Kingsley, Tonks]?
2) Is it not also possible, given how owls can find *anyone*, that 
Harry could have run up to the owlery himself before leaving and sent 
an owl to DD? [We have canon for this possibility.  Remember Harry 
sending owls to Sirius when Sirius was on the run?]

Those aren't very exciting possibilities, but they are at least other 
possibilities than that Snape contacted DD to tell him about Harry's 
rushing off to the MoM.

Siriusly Snapey Susan