Harry begins to act like someone I know...

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Melanie wrote: 
> My reply:  Which is the one and probably only reason I can't stand 
Snape.  He makes me ill because I just can't imagine him having no 
idea what so ever that Sirius didn't do it.  There is a certain level 
that you have to wonder, can it  be true?  Certainly, I think that 
Snape had at least some knowledge of Wormtail, and if Wormtail was 
the death eater then obviously Sirius was not.  Yet, he was going to 
have the him killed.  He didn't care if he died.  You can say that is 
the same for Sirius, but I just can't imagine Sirius turning innocent 
Snape over to the death eaters.  That's just me.  
>  
> And I must add at this point that Sirius did not condemn Snape to 
the children in GOF, quite the opposite he said he coudln't believe 
that Dumbledore would have employed him if he didn't trust him.  He 
put some faith in Snape's credibility, I personally believe that says 
a great deal.  He told the kids to watch out for Karakoff not Snape.  
>  


Potioncat;
I didn't snip at all because I'm responding to it all.

I understand what you mean. If you believe that Snape knew about 
Wormtail and had reason to doubt Black's guilt, then Snape is 
terrible.  But if he thinks Black was the traitor (as I think he 
does) then he's behaving pretty well.  He doesnt' turn Sirius over to 
the dementers.

Sirius said he'd never heard of Snape being a Death Eater and doubted 
DD would have hired him if he had been.  On the other hand, he knew 
Karkaroff was a DE. That's why he told them to watch out for him. 
And, Snape never told Harry about Sirius or really even how bad James 
had been.  Harry found that out himself.
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