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

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 144792

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
 
> Pippin:
<snip> 
> 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.

Marianne:

I like this interpretation.  It also ties into Sirius's evident 
displeasure with DD that Harry picked up on when he (Harry) first 
arrived at 12GP in OoP. Having to stay in hiding doing nothing was 
naturally going to grate on someone like Sirius, who is an action-
oriented kind of guy. But to know that part of the reason to do so 
was so that Snape could pass on this information to bolster Snape's 
cover with Voldemort, would have been doubly annoying.