[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and GOF

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 144389

Jen

What I'd still like to know is how Snape passed off that comment 
about helping dispose of Sirius when Nacissa was sitting right there-
-didn't Dumbledore say Kreacher passed the information about Sirius 
to Narcissa? Maybe this was figured out right after the release and 
I missed it, but it seems incongruous.

Jen


sherry now:

No, this hasn't been figured out yet.  In fact, it's part of why I think
Snape was not lying in that scene.  After all, Narcissa knows who gave the
information that helped set up Sirius.  We only have Kreacher's word to
Dumbledore, told by Dumbledore to Harry, that Kreacher is the one who
spilled the beans.  Ever since reading spinners End, I've wondered if it
really was Kreacher, or if it was a combination of information from Kreacher
and Snape.  After all, if it was Kreacher alone, why wouldn't Narcissa speak
up right then and say something like, Hey, that's not true.  Kreacher told
us.  I do think Snape is implicated somehow, and that he helped set up both
Harry and Sirius.  His own words imply it with no denial from either of his
guests.

sherry