The Continuing Tragedy of Severus Snape: Reflections on Books 1-5

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 164599

Cassy V:
> > and b) seems to have been
> > (the only one?) to suspect Sirius * before* the events at Godric's
> > Hollow? 'You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to
> > believe you might be mistaken in Black –' (POA19). Now what was
> > *that* about?
>
> zgirnius:
> Personally, I think Snape may have warned James personally, or
> through Potter, that Voldemort had subverted his Secret Keeper.
> Peter was, apparently, the SK for a week, so Voldemort did not act
> immediately, which leaves more time for leaks (hypothetically) to
> have happened. I don't think Snape had specific information about
> Sirius: I think it was more that he knew 1) the Fidelius had been
> cast, and 2) Voldemort was convinced he could find the Potters, and
> deduced 3) Sirius was a traitor, because the whole point of the
> switch was to tell everyone Sirius was the SK.
>

Dana:

'You'd have died like your father, too arrogant to believe you might
be mistaken in Black –' (POA19).

Personally I have always thought this to be about "the prank". Snape
was (and still at this time) convinced that Sirius set him up to die.
I think James always maintained that it was never Sirius intention to
cause Snape's death. And this reads to me that if James than had
believed Sirius capable of murder like Snape had always proclaimed
than he himself would not have died by trusting Sirius with his life.
I do not for one moment believe that Snape warned James personally.
I think the hospital scene where Snape reminds DD that Sirius was
capable of murder at age 16 to be underlining the belief Snape holds
that James would had been alive if he'd not put all his trust in
Sirius in the first place.

Personally I also can't see the whole Lily/ Snape thing going either.
I personally feel and of course this is my opinion and can be proven
wrong in the next book that the reason he never mentions Lily is
because she is not worth mentioning to him. I personally think book 6
is proof of this that he indeed holds the pure blood ideology and why
he chooses to idolize is mothers side of his being an attempt to deny
his fathers heritage. Lilly is muggleborn and therefore I believe she
has no meaning to him at all. The Lily/Snape essence has been non-
existent from book 1 through 6 with only one interaction between the
two and it read for me that he would have preferred her staying out of it (attacked by the most popular lot in school and than being rescued by the "mudblood"). I also do not believe that Lily came to his aid out of affection for Snape but I believe she was probably a prefect at the time and I read the Ron/ Twin/ Hermione interaction where Ron like Lupin chooses not to interfere while Hermione feels it's her duty to confront the Twins (Lily feeling obligated to confront James/ Sirius) as being somewhat the same thing we see in the pensieve scene interaction. JMHO

Dana