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

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 150011

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> "Like father, like son, Potter! I have just saved your neck; you
> should be thanking me on bended knee!  You would have been well 
served if he'd killed you!  You'd have died like your father too 
arrogant to believe you might be mistaken in Black--"
> 
> This is an interesting statement.  Taken one sentence at a time, 
it says:
> 1.  I am taking credit for saving your life.
> 2.  I assert that you owe me gratitude.
> 3.  You don't deserve being saved.
> 4.  You're just like your father. (Snape's unending refrain.)
> 5.  Your father died too arrogant to believe he was mistaken in 
Black.
> 
> This is very typical, in my opinion, of the way Snape's mind works,
> linking injustice to injustice as he works himself up into a rage
> against the way the world has treated him.  
(Snip)
>I think Snape is enough of a solipsist, at least when he's caught 
>up in the DD-Marauder-Harry knot--that he *knew* Sirius was no good 
> when everyone else was too blind to see it. And now he's been 
proven right.
>

Tonks:
You know reading your post made me start to wonder if there was some 
reason for Snape to distrust Sirius other than the murders that he 
was framed for.  I can't remember why Sirius was near the Potter's 
house that night.  Was there a reason?  Do you think that maybe 
Snape could have some valid reason to distrust Sirius other than the 
so called "prank" when they were in school?  Was there some reason 
why DD who always seems to know things about people, thought the 
worst of Sirius all those years that Sirius was in prison?  That is 
not really like DD. You would have thought that DD would have known 
that Sirius didn't do those murders. I know that others here have 
brought that point up in the past.

Overall I doubt that Sirius would have done anything against James 
or Lily, but this does plant just a bit of questioning in my mind.  
Maybe this shows how "my" mind works. ;-)

Why was Sirius there that night? And if PP was the secret-keeper, 
what was the point of that if Sirius knew where they were anyway?  
He must have known if he was near their house.  Couldn't LV have 
tortured Sirius anyway to get that information? What was the point 
of PP being the secret-keeper in that case? It is late and I am 
probably just not thinking clearly
 but I am beginning to wonder a 
bit.

Tonks_op