Snape finding Lily's letter

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 173980

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
> So, again, I ask, where and what is the confusion
> regarding this letter? 

Mus responds: For me, it's how it came to be in 12 Grimmauld Place in 
DH, not how it got delivered to Sirius in the first place.  Sirius 
wasn't living there at the time of the attack on the Potters in 
Godric's Hollow, so it must have been brought there later.  

I suppose it could have Sirius that brought it, by assumption some 
time before the beginning of OotP, probably with the rest of his 
belongings.  This raises the question, though - at least in my mind - 
of where Sirius' possessions were between his arrest and his taking up 
residence in 12 Grimmauld Place.  It's unlikely, since everyone 
(except Peter) though that he was a murderer, that anyone would have 
cared to keep them particularly safe for him.

It's a (very) minor point, but it doesn't seem to me like solid 
continuity, and for my taste there's too much poor continuity in DH.  
My hackles first rose in the first chapter, where we encountered 
Charity Burbage, whom we *should* have come across by name in PoA.  In 
PoA and in GoF, we were treated to some truly splendid clue-laying, 
with all sorts of things that seemed peripheral coming sharply into 
focus.  It's just, for this reader, didn't seem remotely comparable.  
It's not that it's impossible to devise work-arounds, but rather that 
there are so many to devise and so little of the "A-hah!" that was so 
satisfying before.

Mus