Did Snape defend trio at the end of PoA? /Are appearances important to Snape?

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> Alla:
> 
>> Now, I am intrigued about your comparison with Fudge silencing 
Barty 
> later. I agree it does look the same, but the difference to me is 
> that Snape wants revenge, Fudge on the other hand may have 
something 
> to hide.
> 
> Are you saying that Snape is afraid if the true story will come 
out 
> for some reason? Maybe that Snape WAS aware that Pettigrew was a 
> traitor from the beginning and chose to keep his mouth shut? It 
was 
> always wierd to me that during those years Snape never met Peter.
> 

Yes, that's exactly what I am saying. I do not deny that Snape 
wanted revenge, but *that* does not explain his urgent desire to 
dispatch Sirius as soon as possible. (And, sorry, I don't believe 
that it had anything to do with his alleged vanity). Nor does it 
explain his total disinterest for Sirius's version of events. In his 
line of business, so to speak, such disregard for details is rather 
incomprehensible, and may well prove fatal.  Looks like Snape *knew* 
all there was to know about Pettigrew. And if he hadn't known *all* 
of it from the start he rectified it by eavesdropping the Lupin's 
story. He came in when Lupin started with his narrative and chose to 
reveal himself only after learning about Pettigrew being an animagus 
and after letting Lupin to explain about the Prank. Whereupon his 
first move (after a bit of gloating) was to silence Lupin, quite 
literally by gagging him. 

Then he tried to feed Sirius to Dementors without Dumbledore being 
the wiser. When that scheme failed he still persisted trying to 
silence the Trio ("Hold your tongue!"). And when it didn't work 
tried to dismiss their testimony as some sort of rumbling of three 
confused people and one dangerous maniac. Which was fine with Fudge 
but didn't work on Dumbledore. 


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