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[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 170121

Catlady:
> What is the canon that Snape never ratted on his friends? It is 
> canon that Rosier and Wilkes were both killed by Aurors, and that 
> Rosier was killed while resisting arreast; I think Wilkes also was 
> resisting arrest. Maybe the Aurors knew where to lurk to catch 
> them committing a crime because Sevvie had told his friends' crime 
> plan to Dumbledore. Making Sevvie parallel to Peter as someone who 
> left the side to which he had pledged allegiance and gave the 
> other side information that led to the death of his friends. Of 
> course it is only parallel if saving the lives of innocent victims 
> is less important than not ratting out
> your friends and/or betraying your loyalty.
<snip>

Dana:
Canon never suggests that he did, it would be an assumption to say 
that he did. For Peter on the other hand, just like Karkaroff, it 
has been suggested in canon that he gave LV, or the MoM (Karkaroff), 
information. 

For Snape it never had been suggested anything other then him spying 
on LV and DD. Well until he himself suddenly claimed to have given 
LV information on the Order, Emmeline Vance and information that 
helped to dispose of Black (which does not have to imply he gave 
information on Sirius but something that helped Sirius get out of 
hiding).

No one on either side makes this claim about Snape and as we see 
Snape certainly did not tell anyone what he knew about Lucius and 
even treats his son as his most favourite. 

Sirius for instance knew about Rosier and Wilkes being DEs without 
ever talking to Snape about it so it does not suggest that this 
information came from Snape and it therefore can be just as well be 
due to their were involved with DE activity, which they were not all 
as conspicuous about as Snape. 

<snipped the comparison between Kreacher and Dobby because it seems 
totally irrelevant to my point>

Catlady:
> On another tentacle, if Snape was loyal to LV and went to spy on DD
> for LV, LV wouldn't mind sacrificing a couple of low ranking Death
> Eaters to prove Snape's bona fides to DD. Loyalty to LV creating
> murderous betrayal of friends -- LV seems to like that.

Dana:
That is again just an assumption that LV would allow his DEs to sell 
out other DEs for his cause. We actually never see him do that. 
Besides DD would not need to be persuaded in such away, it is only 
the MoM and mainly Barty Crouch who worked like that. 

JMHO

Dana