Snape's involvement in the murder of Sirius

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 169143

> Goddlefrood:
> The rat is powerful enough to blast a street of Muggles, kill 
> Cedric with little thought and remain in Animagus form for 12 
> years or so. Why then is he always given no credit whatever? 
> He is clearly an able wizard, albeit a traitor. 

zgirnius:
In my view, this last phrase is the key point. Would Peter *want* to 
resist? Who knows? If not, it would be a rather suspicious 
circumstance in Voldemort's eyes if at the end of GoF, the late-
returning Snape could tell him considerably less than Peter about 
these same goings-on, despite his presence at Hogwarts with 
Dumbledore, who supposedly trusts him.

> Goddlefrood:
> Why not say that they *both* told LV? 

zgirnius:
Yup.

> Goddlefrood:
> As to the second paragraph quoted above I suggest that some 
> contamination is creeping in from the medium that shall not 
> be named. In that medium Snape does burst in suddenly in the 
> Shack, however in the books he enters quite a little earlier.

zgirnius:
If you look in your copy of PoA to the place whence you extracted the 
quotes, you will be able to ascertain that Snape, according to you 
(and me!), arrived pages after the conversation between the Trio and 
Sirius, and later also Lupin, began. He thus came 'later'.

> Goddlefrood:
> The above comments of my own apply equally to the events later 
> on. Peter was concentrating, IMO, on manufacturing his own 
> escape, that he may have overheard other matters in respect of 
> Harry and Sirius's conversation outside the Whomping Willow is 
> speculation. 

zgirnius:
Speaking of creeping contamination...that lovely scene, of Harry and 
Sirius speaking together with a view of the moonlit castle through 
the trees, looking like something out of a dream...happened, in 
slightly altered form, in the tunnel, in the book version. (I can see 
why the movie makers decided to change the venue...<g>).

> Goddlefrood:
> A certain English actor who shall remain nameless has an awful 
> lot to answer for, IMO. 

zgirnius:
J. K. Rowling, the author of "Hary Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" 
(most particularly, of "Spinner's End" and everyting from "The Seer 
Overheard" through "The Flight of the Prince" in that book), is to 
blame for my opinions on this matter. They were formed by my reading 
of that book, not by the Nameless One's performances, which I had 
already seen at that point.