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

[lebeto033]

No: HPFGUIDX 141257

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. 


Another interpretation could be that Snape suspected Sirius of being a
deatheater and then told James of his theory before they went under
the Fidelius.  This might have prompted the Potters to switch to Peter
because he would be unexpected like said in canon and also was the
only friend not a suspected DE (due to Remus being a werewolf).  Thus
Snape would factor even more into the death of the Potters.

lebeto