Snape finding Lily's letter

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 173997

> va32h:
> 
> Because the letter was written when Harry was one - which would make 
> his parents and Sirius about 21. Sirius ran away from 12 Grimmauld 
> Place when he was 16. 
> 
> So either Sirius brought a bunch of mementoes back to 12 GP when he 
> moved back in during the events of OoTP (and assumed Harry wouldn't be 
> remotely interested in a picture of himself as a baby and a letter from 
> his mother??) or JKR has made a goof. 
> 

Pippin:
It's not that kind of story, or we'd have seen Harry sit down with Sirius
and go through the photograph album. It would make a three hanky fanfic, but JKR made 
Harry reticent about revealing his emotions about his parents to anyone (no surprise 
considering the way the Dursleys treated the subject.)

All we get is a brief regret from Harry in OOP that he never tried to find who was
the better Quidditch player, he or his father, -- and then having thought of this question, 
he never asks Lupin either.

But we know Sirius kept control of his Gringotts vault. He may have put many things there 
for safekeeping, in preparation for going into hiding as the false secret keeper.  I see no 
reason why the letter from Lily couldn't be one of them, in which case he got it out the 
same way he got the money for Harry's Firebolt.

I do have a question about the timing since we were told in PoA that the Potters had only 
been under Fidelius for a week before they were murdered, and the letter must have been 
written months before that. But as we know, wizards have other ways to hide.

Pippin