PoA - Snape knew?

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 143351

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ginny343" <ginny343 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> I had a thought this morning and although I have not thought it 
> completely through, I decided to post it.
> 
> We know from PoA that the DEs knew that Peter was a spy.  
> 
> "You've been hiding from Voldemort's old supporters . . . Sounds 
like 
> they think the double-crosser double-crossed them . . . " (Am. ver. 
p. 
> 368)
> 
> So, he was probably part of the /circle/ (literally) of supporters 
> that Voldemort would call to him (like in the graveyard).  There 
was a 
> place for Snape too (the one he thought had left him forever).  So 
> that means, like all the other DEs (loyal or not), Snape knew Peter 
> was the spy.

c: I don't believe anyone knew about Peter back in 1980/1981 as being 
a spy for Voldemort - it doesn't seem that way in the books.  Also, 
since Voldy kind of mistrusts his DE's, he probably kept them in the 
dark about their roles.  In GoF, when Snape is accused of being a DE, 
he wasn't labeled as a spy, just a DE.

But because of the Order of the Phoenix, I would think that Peter's 
role would be kept hush-hush.  His name never, as far as we have been 
privy to, came up in an court/trial scenes as being a Death Eater.

> 
> That given, I am a little confused about why Sirius was believed to 
be 
> a spy.  Did they think there was two spies working on the same 
thing?  

c:I don't think they thought there were two spies - I think that 
since Sirius was supposed to be the Secret Keeper and everyone knew 
it and then James & Lily are found by Voldemort, people believed that 
Sirius betrayed them(not necessarily a spy, mind you) and since James 
and Lily were dead and Peter assumed dead, who was going to believe 
Sirius?

> Did Snape think Sirius went after Peter to kill him because Peter 
had 
> caused the downfall of Voldemort? 


c: Snape didn't know about Peter in the Shack.  He followed Lupin 
because a) Lupin forgot his drink that evening and b) was curious.  
He didn't know the children were in the Shack, or Sirius when he 
started out.

 > 7th book, I am a little disappointed to think that Snape knew 
about 
> Peter, and yet the teachers in the school believed Peter to be 
> innocent.


c:I don't think Snape knew Peter's role with Voldemort until AFTER 
PoA & BEFORE GoF.  Hence, I don't think there is anything to be 
disappointed about :-)


> of what happened in PoA, Snape should have told the minister that 
> Black was not the one who got James and Lily killed.  Why didn't he?

c:At that point and time, Snape still believed Sirius was the Secret 
Keeper who betrayed James & Lily - no one told him otherwise (or at 
least, someone with creditability)   Dumbledore most likely filled 
Snape in after the scene in the Hospital Ward.

colebiancardi