Spinner's End--further evidence for DDsMan!Snape??

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 140072

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nkafkafi" <nkafkafi at y...>
wrote:

> What JKR *didn't* do is to clearly imply that during these 5 hours 
> the Order members in 12GP had known that Harry was under a mind 
> attack and running somewhere in the Forbidden Forrest with
Umbridge, and yet did nothing about it. This would have taken the 
responsibility out of Snape's shoulders. But IMO it would have been 
practically unbelievable for Sirius to leave this in Snape's hands 
and not come running, or for the paranoid Moody not to check on the 
guards in the DoM just to make sure. So JKR muddied and disguised
the  missing 5 hours issue the best she could. Now that the issue is 
thoroughly muddied, it's not convenient to raise it in books 6 and
7,  and as I've said above it also rather redundant.   

Pippin:
It sounds more like she muddied the five hours because she wanted
Harry to be back in Dumbledore's office as the sun rose. Both
Snape and the Order had to take a long time to notice that Harry was
in trouble. But really, if the Order showed up at Hogwarts with
Dumbledore and McGonagall both gone, that would blow Snape's 
cover for sure.

I don't think even Sirius hated him enough to do that -- he might
kill Snape himself, but he'd never betray a fellow Order member to 
Voldemort.

I think you're also discounting the probability that all of them
would have had trouble supposing that Harry would take the vision 
seriously  once he'd had time to think it over.

Suppose I told you I'd had a vision of Bin Laden  in person holding 
my godfather hostage at the Pentagon -- would you believe it? Would
you even  think that I believed it? Even if I'd had an accurate vision
before, it'd be awfully far-fetched. If I went missing, would that
be the first place you looked?

Pippin