But DID James listen? (was LID!Snape rides again )

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 149984

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "P J" <midnightowl6 at ...> wrote:
>
>   Sydney:
>  > Sirius being innocent is unthinkable for Snape because he's 
been here
>  > before-- he's been trying to convince people not to trust 
Sirius, and
>  > people didn't listen to him, and people died.  That's why he 
says,
>  > "DON'T TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND", and why he 
screams at
>  > Harry for suggesting that Snape is prejudiced against 
Sirius "just
>  > because he made a fool of you at school", which is probably 
JUST what
>  > James said 14 years before, when Snape was trying to convince 
him not
>  > to make Sirius secret-keeper.  I think he just can't BELIEVE 
he's
>  > still having this conversation.  I mean, picture Harry at some 
point
>  > in Book VII if someone was trying to convince him that he was 
wrong
>  > about Snape!
>  >
> 
> PJ:
> With James and Sirius both dead we may never know what the true 
story is, 
> but it seems to me that Snape's warning did NOT go unheeded and 
that his 
> warning, rather than saving the Potters, was actually what caused 
their 
> death!
> 
> I wonder at what point this starts to dawn on Snape...
> 
> PJ
>

Allie now:

I do not think that Snape explicitly warned James Potter against 
using Sirius as Secret Keeper.  The quote that Sydney and PJ and 
others have used is this one from PoA, US softcover p 361:  "You 
would have been well served if he'd kill you!  You'd have died like 
your father, too arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in 
Black..."

All that means is that James wouldn't believe that Sirius could 
betray him.  It doesn't mean that anyone told James that Sirius was 
a traitor, and it doesn't imply WHO told him, if someone did.  It 
could just as easily have been Dumbledore, with Snape finding out 
about it later.