[HPforGrownups] Re: Filling in the blanks: Snape, DD and Snuffles

[Shelley Gardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 190416


>> Bart:
>> Now, by OOP, Snape is aware that Sirius is not guilty of the deaths of the Potters,<snip>
> Pippin:
> I think Snape remained convinced that Sirius was guilty and Dumbledore had made a horrible mistake, right up until the end of GoF. Any conversations prior to that would have been like the conversations in HBP where Harry pressed Dumbledore to do something about Draco and Dumbledore refused to discuss it.  Dumbledore would know that nothing he could say would convince Snape and he wouldn't have tried.
>
>   But Sirius transformed right in front of Snape at the end of GoF, and (in another missing scene) Snape returned to Voldemort that same night and would have encountered Pettigrew  unmistakably alive and in league with Voldemort.
>
> Pippin
I don't think it was a matter of Snape knowing that Sirius was innocent 
or not. It's a matter of forgiveness. The bad blood that was between 
Sirius and Snape happened while James was yet alive, and Snape is just 
continuing to hold a grudge over it. The death of James was irrelevant- 
it just meant the Snape had to continue his bad attitude towards those 
still living- Harry and Sirius. Snape never separates James from Sirius, 
nor does he separate James from Harry. I think he would have been bitter 
to his dying breath, even if he had lived long enough to see Harry end 
Voldemort for good. I don't think there would have ever been an event 
that would have changed his mind from that negativity.

Shelley