OOP Chapter 6-8 post DH look

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182829

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> > zanooda:

> > I would like to think that it was Snape who told DD, and
> > DD told Sirius
 
> Alla:
 
> You mean Snape told Dumbledore this lie? Or you mean Snape told 
> Dumbledore the truth and Dumbledore told Sirius a lie?


zanooda:

I'm talking *only* about "the change of heart" part of the story here,
the rest of it I consider just a logical assumption. I think that
Snape could have known about Reggie's doubts. I suppose Regulus
behaved suspiciously, being unable to conceal his uneasiness (he was
just 17, after all), maybe asking strange questions, you know? Then he
suddenly disappears and is presumed dead, and Snape (and not only him)
suspects he was punished for his betrayal. 

After Snape becomes a spy he gives DD information on the DEs, or maybe
DD asks him specifically about Regulus's fate. Snape tells the story
how he knows it - that Regulus seemed to be on the verge of backing
out, and then he died, most probably on LV's orders. 

I think everybody knew that Regulus was dead - the tapestry would
confirm that, and the parents would try to find out what happened to
him, at least from Bella. If it was not known that he was dead, LV
would have thought he was a deserter and sent the DEs to find and kill
him.

So there are no lies here, not from Snape, and not from DD. There is
the truth about the first part, and the assumption (the wrong one)
about the second part. And don't forget that Snape telling the story
is just a theory, we don't know what really happened :-).