Snape finding Lily's letter

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 173987

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


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"

That it was there at 12 GP at all, not the contents.  Sirius hadn't been there since he was 16 until he was probably 35-36 (when it became OotP HQ).  As others have said (thanks to Mus and zgirnius), Sirius was living on his own from the time he was 17 and came into money.  The letter from Lily would not have been delivered to 12 GP, it would have been sent to where-ever he was living at the time.  (I don't believe for a moment that he would have gone into hiding at 12 GP during the first VoldyWar.  He may have believed his parents had gotten cold feet at what lengths Voldy was willing to go, but I'm sure he believed they would turn him over to the DE's in a heartbeat.)  

Had the letter been in his possession at the time of his capture (and really, why would it be?) after the event with Wormtail, the Ministry certainly wouldn't have allowed him to keep it in Azkaban.  As others have said, the OotP members were so certain he was a traitor, would any of them bothered finding his possessions and shipping them home?  Hardly.  DD gave testimony against him as being the Potter's secret keeper.  We know, from PoA, what Lupin's opinion of him was.  Regulus was already dead.  His family probably didn't know where he was hiding to go and collect his things if they even cared (probably not if you believe all that Kreacher had to say).  

muscatel1988 said:
It's not that hard to come up with a partial hack - Shacklebolt was in charge of looking for Sirius in OotP, so he could have brought his effects back to HQ."

Ok, I'll buy that (not really) but then Sirius would have shown at least the photograph to Harry.  He knew how hungry Harry was for any information about his family.  

muscatel1988 said
"Certainly it's unlikely that any Order memeber would have kept them carefully for him during his 
imprisonment.  *Sigh*.  Yet another thing that needs a post-hoc rationalisation."

And that's my problem.  

CathyD




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