Snape and GOF

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 144390


> Jen wrote:
> 
> 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-
> 
> sherry wrote:
> 
> No, this hasn't been figured out yet.
<snip>
>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. 

zgirnius now:
Indeed, I think Snape did provide information that was useful. He 
told Voldemort, I am sure, that:
1) Sirius was back in the UK; and his animagus form is a black dog. 
(This information would have been passed on right after the end of 
GoF, when we can be fairly sure Snape and Voldemort met in person).
2) Sirius is Harry's godfather; Harry is thrilled by this, and if 
Sirius were cleared of the crimes for which he was put in Azkaban, 
Harry would go to live with him. (This too would have been shared in 
that meeting).
3) Sirius is both so bored of hiding in a location Snape is not able 
to reveal (Voldemort knows how that charm works too), and so fond of 
Harry, that he would risk showing up (in his animagus form) at 
Platform 9 3/4 to see him off. (This is harder to put a date on. We 
do not know how Snape passes info to Voldemort during the school 
year. Could have been at any time from early in the term to during 
the Christmas break.)

>From this info, yes, Voldemort could decide that Harry would believe 
Sirius might get caught, and he would care enough to come to the 
rescue. So why do I feel this is irrelevant to evaluating Snape's 
loyalties? Because 1) and 2) are known to Pettigrew. And thus Snape 
would have to assume, are already known to Voldemort. Sirius' 
presence on ther platform was known to Lucius Malfoy, the rest of 3) 
follows loigically and simply from 2) and a basic knowledge of 
Sirius' character, which, again, Pettigrew possesses. Snape is 
supposed to be Voldemort's inside man with the Order. How would it 
look if he was providing LESS useful intelligence about its members 
than Pettigrew and Malfoy?

But even if this is information that Voldemort can put together from 
different sources and a little bit of thought, the fact would remain 
that Snape did also provide it all, and so can make the claim he does 
in front of Bella and Cissy. Cissy is not about to pick over Snape's 
claims and lessen his contributions to the cause, she is there to ask 
a BIG favor of the man. And Bella he butters up by bringing up her 
murder of Sirius.