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[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 158274


Ceridwen wrote:
> SPECULATION ALERT ;)
> 
> It could be Snape, or it could be someone else.  If it was Snape, 
> then he was not included in the plot against the Potters and so
would have been out of place when that group met.  It wouldn't have
been impossible for him to be there due to teaching either on the
night of the 30th or at some point on the 31st, since the 30th of
October 1981 
> was a Friday and the 31st was a Saturday:
> http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/calendar/monthly.cfm?
> Year=1981&Month=10&Audience=SSEP

Carol responds:
In the RW, October 31, 1981, may have been a Friday, but in the
Potterverse, it may not have been. September 1 is always a Monday, so
October 31 should always be a Friday. But Halloween can't be either a
Friday or a Saturday, since Uncle Vernon goes to work on November 1.

Now, granted, Snape would not have been teaching at midnight
regardless of the day of the week, but there's no evidence that he was
at Godric's Hollow. ("Spinner's End suggests strongly that he was at
Hogwarts.")

Also, Dumbledore says in SS/PS that *James* placed the Invisibility
Cloak in his keeping before he died. since we know that Dumbledore
talkied with James about the Fidelius Charm and offered himself as
Secret Keeper, it seems likely that James gave him the cloak at that
time, realizing that he wouldn't need it any more but also, IMO, that
there was a chance he would be killed despite the Fidelius Charm. (He
knew there was a spy, evidently.) So, even though it doesn't sound
very promising as a theory, I think he just gave the cloak to DD to
keep for Harry.

Canon says that James gave the cloak to DD. Otherwise, I might think
that Hagrid found it and brought it to him after finding Harry in the
rubble.

Carol, betting that Snape was nowhere near Godric's Hollow but unable
to think of any other reason for keeping the IC mysterious