Discussion HPDH

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 190698



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "willsonteam" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
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> Nerona:
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> > Why did Snape search Grimmauld Place??? Now I remember something
> > about Lily photo with Harry on a broom stick but what was he
> > looking for??
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> Potioncat:
> It's been a while since I read DH and I'm not sure if I ever knew what Snape was looking for. He may have gone just for the letter, ... I think he first saw Lily's letter when he went to Grimald Place to tell Harry about Occlumency lessons. Remember, Sirius was in the kitchen and he had a letter that neither the reader nor Harry ever sees, but Black and Snape are about to attack each other?
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Steve replies:

When H/R/H arrive at Grimmauld Place in Deathy Hallows, it has been pretty thoroughly turned over. But do we know that was all Snape's doing? 

How much of it was Mundungus, and how much was by the Death Eaters in general once Hermione let one of them inside the barrier of the protective enchantments? Though, I guess the DE access occurred later. 

I'm guessing if it was substantially Snape, he might have been looking for some clue as to what Harry's plan was. With Dumbledore gone, and Snape estranged from the Order of the Phoenix, I'm guessing he was a little short on information to help himself help Harry.

Further, if Snape was still secretly working for the Order, he might have been trying to prevent anyone else from finding information that might be laying around.

But again, we don't know to what extent Mundungus tore the place up. So, the chaos we see might not be all Snape's doing.   

Steve/bboyminn