Snape's involvement in the murder of Sirius

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 169222

Jen:

>  Besides not demonstrating that kind of insight 
> into the relationships of the humans around him in 
> my opinion (post #169113), Kreacher was also not 
> around at Christmas to witness Sirius when he was 
> out of his blue period and showing more affection 
> to those around him, including Harry.

houyhnhnm:

I can see your point that Kreacher would not understand 
tenderness or affection.  Jealosy is something I think 
he would understand, though.  He had ample opportunity 
to observe the jealosy between Molly and Sirius over 
Harry during the month Harry was at GP before the 
beginning of the school year.
"He's not your son," Sirius said quietly.
"He's as good as," said Mrs. weasley fiercely.  "Who else has he got?"
"He's got me!"
Kreacher hadn't been introduced to readers at that 
point, but he was around.  In fact he was around pretty 
much anywhere he wanted to be except in the bedrooms of 
those who, like Ron, thought to lock their doors at night.  
One can imagine that, over a nearly one month period, 
there were many more such scenes of tension betwen Molly 
and Sirius than were shown in the book.  Kreacher would 
have been able to observe most or all of them and draw 
his own conclusions.

He could have been around, lurking out of sight, when 
Harry asked Sirius if he could come back and live with 
him.  He could have been around when Sirius insisted on 
accompanying the party to platform nine and three-quarters.