Secrets (Long) OLD POST REPOST

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 186497

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> > jkoney:
> > The difference is that Sirius "knew" for sure that Peter turned his friends over to Voldemort. Snape could only believe second hand reports (like everyone else). Although, Snape had enough connections with the DE's to find out that it was Peter.
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> Alla:
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> LOL, Sirius is my second favorite character in the books and I was extremely happy when Snape died and more than satisfied the way JKR chose for him to die, that just to give you a brief idea how I feel about Snape, in case you did not figure it out yet ;). But I really do not see much difference here, you know?
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> I will never forgive Snape for not listening to Sirius begging and being ready to feed Sirius to dementors. That to me goes beyond holding grudges and beyond anything.
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> But are you saying that Snape should not have believed second hand reports? Are you saying that Snape should have done some investigating or something?
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> Why? Did he own Sirius something at that point? Now, Dumbledore I want to kick every time I think what he did for one of his soldiers (nothing).
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> JMO,
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> Alla
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jkoney
I am saying that Snape along with everyone else didn't investigate the matter and thought (not knew) that Sirius was guilty.

If Snape is as distraught as he is shown, I would think he would like to know for sure. He has contacts among the DE's, he could bring it up either directly or in a roundabout way to see who knew what.


The difference is in the degree of certainty. I may believe in UFO's based on the evidence that other people present. But if I'm driving down a country road and there's one in the middle of the road and they take me inside the ship, I would know that they exist not just believe they do.