The answer to the riddle -- whosawit?

[magistera_coi]

No: HPFGUIDX 129781

> Valky:
> <snip>
> I my defense Occams Razor doesn't cut the scenario that you posit
> Mags, IMHO. To be fair the quote does say literally that James 
> *was arrogant* when faced with the notion that Sirius was the spy. 
> The character Snape doesn't like to BS about this situation, if 
> he says he directly observed James arrogant about Sirius at the
> moment of his death then why question it? 

Hmm. That's not exactly what it says to my reading, simply because
*Sirius was not the spy*. So whatever else may have happened, Snape
was not "on the inside" to the extent that he knew who the spy was.
Otherwise, he'd know that Sirius wasn't the one who betrayed James,
rendering moot to my mind the statement that James was "arrogant" 
to believe that Sirius wouldn't betray him (because, of course, he
didn't).

To me the statement reads like pure hindsight filtered by malice: 
Your father was too stupid to see that Black would betray him (when 
he patently didn't, in the end), and just like James died, you will too. 

Why would James have been arrogant about the fact that Sirius would
never betray him, when faced with Peter's betrayal? That's what 
trips me up. Give me a believable scenario, and I'll be all over it. 
:P

-Mags