After all this time...

[Talisman]

Well, this is the happy day for all those who voted for the SK question.

I'll be nice and just say that there is one bright spot. (Actually, I 
think JKR was trying to make sure we got *something.*)

If, as many suspect, Snape was at GH, then he would have had to have 
known--from the point of his initiation into the secret--that Wormtail 
was the traitorous SK, not Sirius.

If, as I expect, we find that Snape has been working *with* DD 
throughout the series, then this will confirm, as I have oft opined, 
that DD had this information all along, as well.  (Of course, I say he 
knew before GH, but this is still good evidence.)

Many are the implications that ripple out from there. Even if Rowling 
doesn't explain all of DD's machinations in Book 7, more readers should 
be able to see his complicity in events of which they have otherwise 
supposed him innocent.

Talisman
For the Fellowship of the D.U.S.T.