When did Snape attempt to save the Potters? WAS: Re: Harry IS Snape.

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 141222

Alla Wrote:
> Where else is is stated for a fact that Snape made an attempt to 
> save Potters? Pretty please?
> 
> I mean, Dumbledore in HBP said that Snape felt remorse about 
> Potters' death, but did DD anywhere in HBP actually says that 
Snape 
> attempted to save James and Lily?

Saraquel:
Well there's an interesting quote from PoA (UK ed p265)where Snape 
enters the room in the shrieking shack -
'Like father like son, Potter! I have just saved your neck, you 
should be thanking me on bended knee! You would have been well 
served if he'd killed you! You'd have died like your father, too 
arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black -'

Up thread I wrote something on this.  I quoted the whole speech 
because it needs to be seen in context.  The implication to me, is 
that Snape personally warned James that Sirius was a spy (that he 
was mistaken is not the point here)and in Snape's eyes James ignored 
the advice and ended up dead.  I proposed that Snape sent a message, 
probably via his patronus, telling the Potter's that Voldemort knew 
where they were and was coming for them, and that their secret 
keeper had blabbed.  Snape would have thought that Sirius was the 
secret keeper. 

OK, this is interpretation and not strictly stated in canon but I 
think it's a pretty reasonable assumption.
Saraquel