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

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> >>Carol:
> <snip>
> I think Snape approached James and possibly Lily with no one else 
> present, which would explain why Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew seem 
> to know nothing about it.
> <snip>
> Straightforward reading (IMO): Snape approaches James alone or with
> Lily and tells him that he knows from Dumbledore that one of the
> Potters' friends is a traitor who has been leaking secrets to
> Voldemort.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
This is pure speculation, but I strongly suspect that Lily was *not* 
present when Snape spoke with James.  For one, Lily was not as close 
to Sirius as James was growing up.  For another, I think Lily *was* 
close to Snape (Snape was to Lily what Sirius was to James, 
maybe?).  So Lily would have been more inclined to listen to Snape 
and, even if she *did* trust Sirius, play it safe and make 
Dumbledore their secret keeper.

For some reason I have it in my head that James deliberately kept 
Lily out of it (as he kept her out of his continuing enmity with 
Snape).  I can totally see Snape asking to talk to Lily and James 
refusing to allow it, in an attempt to protect Lily from her 
horrible former-friend, and perhaps because it angered Snape.

One of the things I like about this is that it helps to heighten 
Snape's guilt.  If he hadn't burned his bridge with Lily, if he'd 
maintained their friendship, than perhaps he'd have been able to 
reach her and given her the news that one of the Marauders was a 
traitor.

Anyway, total speculation, as I said, but I wanted to throw it out 
there. <g>

Betsy Hp, who likes piling the pain on Snape despite the mad love