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

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 141262

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lebeto033" <lebeto033 at y...> wrote:
>
> 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
>
PoA: "harry...I as good as killed them," he[Sirius] croaked. "I
persuaded Lily & Ja,mes to change to Peter at the last moment,
persuaded them to use him as Secret-Keeper instead of me...I'm to
blame, I know it"  p 365 Am Ed Hardcover

Canon disagrees with that theory.  For whatever reason, Sirius was the
one who requested that Peter replace him as Secret Keeper - James did
not do it on his own.  What is it with everyone trying to blame Snape
for EVERY ill in potterverse?  Could it be that several people made
mistakes on their own, including DD for not revealing to the Potters
why DD should be the secret keeper instead of either Peter or Sirius,
and those actions, along with Snape's, caused the Potter's downfall?  

It doesn't rest on Snape's shoulder's alone.  Sure, he heard the 1st
part of the prophecy, and told Voldemort.  But he did turn prior to
the Potter's death and therefore was working for the Order and not for
LV and certainly not for helping the Potter's die.   Snape is
partially responsible, but so is Peter, Dumbledore, James, Sirius and
most of the blame(over 80%, in my eyes), is the person who actually
killed the Potters, Voldemort.

colebiancardi
(I know some of you really dislike Snape, but he is not the *big bad*
in PotterWorld - Voldemort is)