The answer to the riddle -- whosawit?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 129767

> Gerry
> 
> Let me give an alternative: Snape, as a spy finds out that someone of
> James friends is the spy, and sold them out. Maybe LV tells it at a
> meeting or something like that. Snape as a member of the 
Order 'knows'
> or assumes that Sirius is the secret keepter. He does not know this 
is
> not true. When telling Jamers about Sirius being a traitor and having
> sold out the location, James is arrogant, because he knows Sirius is
> no traitor, cannot have sold out the location because he is not the
> secret keeper. 


Jen: I can easily picture Snape attempting to save the Potters with 
his information and James sneering at him, refusing to believe him, 
slamming the door in his face..... "Like father, like son, Potter! I 
have just saved your neck; you should be thanking me on bended 
knee!..." (POA, chap. 19, US)

Until this moment I never saw the fly in the ointment, but Snape 
wouldn't be able to find GH if it's hidden by Fidelius. And if he 
*did* find GH because Peter disclosed the location to him (by note so 
Snape doesn't know it's Peter and not Sirisu), when Snape shows up at 
the Potter's door James would know Peter has betrayed them by 
revealing the location to Snape. They would have contacted DD and been 
removed to another location.

That was one of my favorite theories, too! The image of Snape 
attempting to save James' life, resolving his life-debt in the 
process, only to have James rebuff him and then die on him. Imagine 
the seething resentment on Snape's part, to be left with the 
unresolved life-debt because James died "too arrogant to believe {he} 
might be mistaken in Black -- " (POA, chap. 19)

Any way to resolve this SK problem? I can't imagine Snape showing up 
at GH and James coming to any other conclusion but that Peter betrayed 
them.

Jen