Snape finding Lily's letter

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 173971

---  "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at ...> wrote:
>
> From the live chat yesterday:
> "Lou: How did snape get into grimmauld place to get 
> the second half of the letter, if there were 
> protection spells on the house stopping snape getting
> in.
>
> J.K. Rowling: Snape entered the house immediately 
> after Dumbledore's death, before Moody put up the 
> spells against him."
> 
> If that is so, then in the chapter "The Prince's Tale,"
> the memory order is wrong.  It shows Snape finding the
> letter after he lops off George's ear.  ...
> 

bboyminn:

Who says the Penseive scenes are in chronological 
order? I suspect, and always have, that they were in
random order, and just happen to occur in a particular
sequence to suit the stories need, but still, none the
less, in apparent random order.

> CathyD:
>
> I still have a huge problem with the letter being in 
> GP in the first place.  It just does not fit.  
> 
> CathyD
> TrentonON

bboyminn:

What is it about the letter that you (and others)
object to or don't understand? It was a letter written
to Sirius a long time ago, and it was in Sirius's
bedroom. Which part of that causes a problem? 

Now, I could perhaps understand some confusion about
the reference to Dumbledore. Since we the readers get
this information in the present (Harry's present),
but the letter supposedly occurred a long time ago.

Well, that assumes Rita is the first person to ever
discover Dumbledore knew Grindelwald. Yet, they hung
around together for a summer. Certainly LOTS of people
knew this; Aberforth, villagers, family friends, etc....

Keep in mind that the reference to the relationship
between Dumbledore and Grindelwald comes directly 
from Bathilda Bagshot, not from Rita Skeeter. 

---DH, Am Ed, HB, pg 180-181---
"Bathilda drops in most days, she's a fascinating old
thing with the most amazing stories about Dumbledore,
I'm not sure he's be pleased if he knew! I don't know
how much to believe, because it seem incredible that
Dumbledore ....

...could ever have been friends with Gellert 
Grindelwald. I think he mind's going, personally!"

So, again, I ask, where and what is the confusion
regarding this letter? 

Steve/bboyminn