Something Suspicious about Severus (was :Requiescat in Pace, My Dark Phoenix)

[latha279]

No: HPFGUIDX 151531

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, catherine higgins 
<saberbunny at ...> wrote:
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> latha279 <brahadambal at ...> 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? 
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>   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. 
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>   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.
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>   Catherine
>    

I don't agree this point. Steve and I have given enough explaination 
on this and said that Snape is not as culpable for the Potters' 
deaths as Peter Pettigrew. Snape had no idea that it would be the 
Potters' who will be affected. If only the first part of the prophecy 
was *conveyed* to LV (i assume this sonveying part, because if 
Trelawney knew that somebody eavesdropped that night, it means she 
was out of her trance AND that means the prophecy was over. That also 
means that Snape knew everything the prophecy said. This indicates 
that it was around that time that Snape agreed to be DD's spy in LVs 
camp.), then Snape was already doing his double agent thing. All the 
more reason to not believe the circumstances given by DD for Snape's 
repentence. 

James' and Sirius' deaths are surely not something Snape would ever 
regret. Snape is not that type of a person. Snape (as much as I 
believe him to be DD's man) is still not an angel. 

JMO,
Brady.