Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[nerona]

No: HPFGUIDX 190650

> PoA Chapter 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort
> Snape reveals himself fully, binds Lupin, and snarls at Sirius.
> Sirius asks Snape to listen, but Snape promises to pass him up
> to the Dementors instead. Snape does not listen to Harry and
> Hermione either...???

Nerona:
I think at this point Snape blames his self as much as he blames
Sirius for Lily's death, although we find out in DH that or hrhp
that it was Snape who passed information to Voldemort about the
prophecy, he did not what so ever tell him where they live, but
since he can blame Sirius for it he took it as a happy idea, but
what I am confused about is, Snape was working for Dumbledore as
a spy, so he would have known that Wormtail is a spy also, so why
didn't he enlighten Dumbledore about this fact?? My only conclusion
is that he counted on Voldemort to keep his promise and not kill
Lily; what do you guys think???

> 7: Snape promises to give Sirius and Lupin to the Dementors, did
> you believe that he will do it?

Nerona:
I believe that he will have done it if he had the chance, it will
make him less guilty and stop protecting Harry, it will make him
easy to stop the commitment he had made with Dumbledore (about
protecting Harry) then he can proceed with his life guilty less,
that he at last paid his dues by sending Sirius to the dementors,
and Lupin too since he thought that he was helping Sirius too.

> 8: Sirius says Peter passed information to Voldemort for a year.
> Why do you think Peter did this???

Nerona:
Peter has a lot of Voldemort inside of him, what I mean is, he was
afraid of death, and since Voldemort was gaining more supporters he
thought that joining his side will be for the better, he thought
that way he will not be killed by the death eaters because he is 1
of them, and the reason behind it was that deep inside he knew he
will never be as good as James and Sirius (magic and friendship
etc...)and I still can't figure out as smart as they are couldn't
they know that he was on the other side spying on them?? In the end
the story line didn't seem to support Wormtail being a very good
actor..

And why did James and Lily refuse Dumbledore's offer to be the
secret keeper???  And why did they switch in the first place?? Now
I know that they trusted Wormtail and everything but why not depend
on their best best friend??