On the trivial and the profound.

[eggplant107]

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 Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:

> There is one major piece of information
> which I have yet to hear ANY 
> ESE!Snape explanation for:
> Why did Snape tip off the OOP about 
> the raid on the Ministry

Voldemort's plan was to trick Harry to go to the ministry, but when
Snape showed up Harry was already caught by Umbrage so Snape figured
the plan had failed, it never occurred to him that Harry would manage
to escape and make it all the way to the ministry. With the plan
canceled anyway it couldn't hurt to tell the Order of the Phoenix
what Harry said, in fact he had to if he wanted to remain a spy for
Voldemort. Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna and about a dozen other people
heard Harry talk to Snape about Padfoot, and sooner or later the Order
would hear about it and wonder why Snape didn't tell them immediately.

Eggplant