[HPforGrownups] Re: Something Suspicious about Severus (was :Requiescat in Pace, My Dark Phoenix)

[catherine higgins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151492



latha279 <brahadambal at indiatimes.com> wrote:    Brady:
On the same note, this is a general question. If *WE* are able to put 
two and two together and come to conclusion that Snape was already a spy for DD before GH happened, how come people in the Order (Remus and Minerva) agree to Harry's account in the hospital wing that DD trusted him because Snape repented being the cause for James' and Lily's deaths? 
   
  Catherine:
  Well, in a way he (Snape) had a hand in James' and Lily's deaths, being the one who yold Voldemort about the prophesy. Voldemort was the "cause of death" but Snape was at least a contributing factor. Like in hospitals, cause of death is quite often "pneumonia" but that wasn't the reason they were in hospital. They had an illness that put them in hospital, and they develop pneumonia, and due to weakened immune systems they pass away. Had they not had an underlying disease, the pneumonia would likely not have been life-threatening. 
   
  In a sense, Snape is responsible for the disease, and LV is an opportunistic virus that cause the deaths of Lily and James. Harry had been given passive immunity from Lily's sacrifice, therefore survived. 
   
  All this to say, Harry wasn't really wrong in saying that Snape had a part in his parent's death, but I don't believe that GH was the reason for Snape's repentance. I believe DD when he says that Snape had turned spy *before* LV downfall. Who knows what the others in the order know about Snape. Obviously, not too much.
   
  Catherine
   

		
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