The death of Emmeline Vance (WAS: Re: Snape the Spy (WAS Re: Who Killed Sir...)

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> Jen:  You've reminded me of something that doesn't match up in OOTP.
> When Molly is talking to Harry about saving Arthur, she mentions
> Dumbledore coming up with a cover story because 'you've no idea what
> trouble he would have been in otherwise, look at poor Sturgis...' 
(chap. 22,
> p. 480, US ed.)

zgirnius:
I think Molly knows what Sturgis was up to, and that Sturgis could 
not explain it to the Ministry, hence his jail time. She is grateful 
that Dumbledore has a cover story for Arthur that the Ministry can 
accept and that Arthur can give. Anyway, that is what I find to be 
the the straightforward reading of these lines.

> Jen:
> All that to say if Snape passed info early on re: the Order 
guarding the
> door, why didn't Dumbledore pass this info on to the Order 
members?  

zgirnius:
I was not suggesting it was the information about the guard and where 
s/he is stationed that Snape passed. It could be anything Snpae told 
Voldemort that might have been helpful in planning the operation.

My own guess as to the nature of the information is that it was stuff 
about Sirius, a lot of which Snape had to fear Voldemort would get 
anyway, from Peter. That Harry and Sirius are close, that Sirius is a 
dog Animagus, that he is around, perhaps that he is staying at Order 
HQ (an excellent reason why Snape cannot say *where* he is).

All it has to be is information that was part of the 
planning/decision process for the DoM raid, if Vance was there. The 
info helped with the raid, which led to the two deaths.