Filling in the blanks: Snape, DD and Snuffles

[jules]

No: HPFGUIDX 190417


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> >   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.
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> > 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
>


Julie:
An apology from Sirius, perhaps? Seriously (no pun intended),
it was far from a one-way street. I doubt anything would have
changed Sirius's mind about Snape either, even if Sirius had
remained alive to learn all that Snape sacrificed (including
his life) to help Dumbledore and Harry defeat Voldemort. They
both saw the other through their adolescent-colored glasses,
and neither ever considered taking those glasses off to see
if anything had changed in the intervening years. 

I also have to say that I think Snape hated Sirius very 
much for himself and based on Sirius's own actions, not 
because he couldn't separate Sirius from James. (Harry is
obviously another matter altogether.)

Julie