[HPforGrownups] Re: Who was with Voldemort at GH? /quick PoA question./Real child abuse

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 145658

See my post 145203 - I know it was Snape at GH.  It's the only thing 
that ties everything together...it gives us the reason Dumbledore 
trusts Snape - and the reason Snape is tied to Harry.  It's the only 
logical answer.
KathyO


Sherry now:

Here's my biggest objection to Snape at Godric's hollow, in terms of the
possibility of DDM Snape.  i am a bad Snape person, however, Snape at
Godric's hollow makes evil Snape a strong possibility in the end.  So, if a
person believes in DDM Snape and believes that Snape was at GH, that would
appear to be a big contradiction.  Here's why I believe that.

We know from the scene in OOTP, when the order comes to take Harry to
headquarters, that only the secret keeper could reveal the location.  moody
or Lupin could not tell Harry where it was.  In the same way, Voldemort
couldn't tell Snape where to find GH.  So, the secret keeper had to tell
him.  Even if Peter wrote it down, it still stretches Snape's credulity too
far for me.  i've been thinking about this a long time, wondering how Snape
could not know the identity of the SK.  Unless Peter was absolutely never at
a death eater meeting, how could Snape not know?  The difference between
peter and Sirius in appearance, even if they were always hooded is way too
much to make it believable that Snape wouldn't have known the difference.  i
bet Snape knew the simple physical outward appearance of Sirius very well.
I'm thinking of height, build, things like that, not facial features.
Sirius had been his enemy for years.  i can't believe he wouldn't have known
Sirius instantly at a death eater meeting, his way of standing, of carrying
himself, the way he moves his head.  Can't sighted people recognize such
things about people they know well, even if they see them in such a way that
they don't see their faces?  In the same way, how could he not have
recognized small, squeaky voiced Peter?

So, unless Snape and Peter were absolutely never together at death eater
meetings, i find it far too difficult to believe Snape would not have
recognized one of the group of people he considers his old school time
enemies and bullies.  I would certainly recognize the voice of the people
who did the most damage to me, even after thirty years.  So, if Snape did by
chance know Peter was a death eater, then he had to have known the truth
about Sirius.  No matter how much he hated Sirius, if he was truly a warm
pussy cat at heart, Snape would not have allowed an innocent man to go to
Azkaban for all those years or worked so hard to get him back there without
being able to speak up in his own defense, during POA.  In fact, Snape's
actions during that whole confrontation and the aftermath, could fit very
neatly into the idea that Snape knew Sirius was innocent and had never
spoken up with his knowledge.  Hmmm.  I kinda like that idea.  From Snape's
point of view, think of the ways he could have held it over Sirius' head, if
he had been the one to be responsible for Sirius' freedom and not his
imprisonment.  He could have had some fun with that.  It would also be
something guaranteed to send Harry's hatred of Snape into even greater
heights, making redemption nearly impossible I'd say.

i got side tracked as I wrote, because that whole Sirius and Snape idea sort
of happened as I was writing.  So back to GH, i can see the bang
possibilities of Snape at GH, but personally, it doesn't seem like a very
strong possibility, unless Snape was still truly working for Voldemort at
that time.  Wasn't he supposedly already on Dumbledore's side by then?
Perhaps someone else was there, or perhaps not, but if it was Snape, it will
make him much harder to redeem or excuse.  For me, he's already on that
line, because of murdering Dumbledore, of course.

Sherry