Forgiving Snape was FF: Re: Who does Snape really hate?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 144786

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> wrote:

> 
> As for Ms. Vance. We may never know what really happened. Snape may 
> have given LV information about her, that she and DD knew was given. 
> Or he may have given some Order information out (again with DD's 
> knowledge) and Ms. Vance was the Order member who happened to be 
> there when the DEs came calling. 
> 

Pippin:
Dumbledore never confirms that Emmeline Vance is dead. It could
be that her death was faked by the Order, and the Death Eaters
memory charmed into thinking that they'd done it.

Harry feels responsible for Sirius's death because it's easier to
feel guilty than helpless. But if Sirius was more than a casualty of
war, if he was killed because of what he knew or might find out
(and JKR has hinted that there is a plot reason why Sirius had to 
die) then going to the Ministry was not the only reason he died,
and he would have been killed eventually even if Harry had seen
through the trap.

Personally, I think Snape, on Dumbledore's orders, told Voldemort
that Sirius was back in England, and that's why Sirius had to stay
in hiding, not because he was suddenly too reckless to be trusted.

Snape is then actually delivering a backhanded compliment to
Sirius when he says that it was clever of Sirius to make an appearance
on the train platform where he couldn't be attacked. By confirming
Snape's information, Sirius would actually be helping Snape preserve
his cover.

Pippin