Snape's involvement in the murder of Sirius

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 169181

> > Goddlefrood:
> > 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 now:

I pwerhaps should have been more clear in my earlier. Subtlety 
has always been something I try for. I'm well acquainted with 
where the conversation took place in the book ;-), the post to 
which I responded appeared to me to have contamination from 
another, nameless, medium. I'll try again:

> > that he may have overheard other matters in respect of Harry 
> > and Sirius's conversation outside the Whomping Willow is 
> > speculation.

Being more explicit than this above the meaning is that any 
mention of a conversation outside the Whomping Willow must 
be speculation due to its having taken place elsewhere ;-)

Further to this and referring to both my earlier post and 
others in this thread later than where I now choose to respond 
I want to add that Snape can not be excused for all he has 
done. This applies whomsoever's side he is on. Any explanation 
for Snape's actions that on their face appear to contravene his 
being DDM will have to be extraordinarily good to convince this 
old recalcitrant that they were in any way justified.

The other matter that I have always found perplexing in respect 
of OotP is that I do not accept that LV spent the entire year 
plotting to get hold of the Prophecy. He must have had other 
things going on, which I for one apprehend we will find out 
about in DH.

Goddlefrood, who may consider being less occluded in future, but 
then again, may not.