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

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 191027



--- 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
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> >>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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> ]
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Nikkalmati

LV had been active for several years already and was terrorizing the WW.  Snape did have the Dark Mark, but he was just out of school and at that time could not have been very high up.  I think things changed when he brought the Prophecy to LV and I think he was up and coming but still junior.  LV promised to spare Lily as a direct payback for the Prophecy - but by the time Snape realized Lily was in danger he was no longer a DE and he had gone to DD.  He spent the last year (from after Harry's birth to the October deaths) at Hogwarts teaching, so he could not have been very active. After LV disappeared many of the DEs were hunted down and killed or sent to Azkaban, so Snape was one of the few original members left to return to LV in the OTP.

Nikkalmati