Snape finding Lily's Letter

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 174233

Potioncat said:
<<Sirius goes to confront Snape, not even thinking of the letter in his 
hand. Snape's eyes dart to the parchment, and there is the barest 
flicker of recognition. He knows the handwriting. Sirius picks up on 
it at once. "Going through some old letters from Lily. She wrote all 
the time. We were great friends, you know. Sent lots of 
photographs. " He drops [the letter on the table and the two of them 
glare.  Enter Harry.]>>

CathyD:
Oh, you have a different book than I have.   Snape never even looked at the letter in the Canadian edition, nor show any recognition...and there certainly was not that particular conversation.  Besides which fact, there is still the missing link...of HOW the letter got there.  As I have said before, there is no way it could come to be in that house as Sirius left the house when he was 16, to return when he was 35-36 once it was made HQ of the OotP.  The letter would have been sent, initially, to his old residence...the one he purchased with the money from Uncle A.  The point of my concern is how it ever came to be at 12 GP in the first place.

Allie said:<<Talk about the needle in the haystack!  If that was JKR dropping a 
hint, that was her most subtle yet.  HBP 518 The exact text reads:

". . .  Sirius and Snape both seated at the long kitchen table, 
glaring in opposite directions.  The silence between them was heavy 
with mutual dislike.  A letter lay open on the table in front of 
Sirius.  'Er,' said Harry to announce his presence.">>

And he didn't show it to Harry, the kid dying to know more about his parents, because???  

CathyD



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