Regulus and Snape

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 139734

"cdayr" <cdayr at y...> wrote:
> <snip>
Now I'm wondering if Snape and Regulus 
> > weren't Slytherin buddies (hard to imagine Snape as anyone's 
> > "buddy" but who knows?). If so, and Sirius tied both his 
brother's 
> > descent into DE status and his death to his friendship/alliance 
> > with Snape, it could account for some of the loathing on his part.

Potioncat:
But in PoA in the chapters about the Shrieking Shack we see that 
Sirius didn't know that Snape had ever been a DE. So he couldn't have 
suspected Snape of recruiting Regulus. Now, that neither proves nor 
disproves that Snape recruited Regulus, it just shows that Sirius 
wouldn't have suspected it.



> 
> Lama: 
> 
> As for Snape being involved in a team effort with Regulus to hide 
> the horcrux in the cave ... well, I'd say he was in it at least up 
> to his elbows.  Who else was likely to have made the potion that 
> protected the locket?  I'm certain that from an early stage in his 
> DE career, Snape would have had his most spectacular talent pressed 
> into service as Potionmeister to LV.

Potioncat:
I don't think so, although it might work with an ESE!Snape. If ESG!
Snape had any part of the potion, he would have told DD what to 
expect. 

> Lama:
> A further thought about the locket is that Regulus may have been 
> entrusted by LV with the task of hiding it, and may have been able 
> to switch it with the fake one - perhaps with help from Snape or 
> another accomplice - before it was ever hidden in the potion on the 
> island, which would have been a lot easier.  > 

Potioncat:
While I find it easier to believe RAB switched the horcrux before it 
was placed in the cave, I don't see Snape being involved. If ESG!
Snape knew the horcrux was fake he would have told DD. If ESE!Sanpe 
knew DD was going to the cave, the DEs would have been waiting at the 
exit.