Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 21: Hermio...

[rtbthw_mom]

No: HPFGUIDX 191013



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, huntergreen3 at ... wrote:
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> > 2. Snape was a Death Eater from the beginning and would have probably  
> known
> > who's who in the clique. Do you think he knows that Sirius is  innocent?
> > 
> Nikkalmati
> 
> >>Not at all.  Snape was a  junior DE at the time and although he may have 
> tried to find out who was the  spy, he did not have access either to the 
> inner circle and LV or to James and  friends.  If he had known, he would have 
> told DD in order to save  Lily.<<
>  
> Was he just a junior DE? I definitely agree that he did not know who the  
> spy was, but I don't think he was a lower-level DE at the time James and Lily 
>  died. He had the Dark Mark and there was a spot open for him in the circle 
> in  the graveyard during GoF. Also, he asked Voldemort to spare Lily, which 
> he  almost did, and I don't think he would have even listened to a 
> lower-level  servant. I think that Snape didn't know who the spy was because none of 
> the DE's  knew who the spy was. 
>  
> -Rebecca
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Pat:

Don't have my books with me right now, so I can't give the exact spot, but I believe that it's in GOF where Harry sees a trial in the pensieve and one of the DEs (Karkaroff, I think) says that they were organized in cells, didn't know who was in others. So it is very likely that Snape had no idea who the spy was. He probably didn't even know who all the DEs were.

Sorry for being unable to locate the exact passage.

Pat