possible answers?(Was:re: James's death)

[jenP_97]

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From: jenP_97
Subject: possible answers?(Was:re: James's death)
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7211] James's death
Date: 8/18/00 6:15 pm  (ET)

This is in response to Do's recent post - my message is so long that
I'm not going to cut and paste her original questions... bear with me.

I'll start with her first comments/questions.

I have no good suggestion as to why Peter was so able to keep it a secret
from everyone that he was a spy for a whole year. Except that maybe it
was just too rediculous for anyone to even suspect. I mean, if you just
*can't* see a person being intellectually/emotionally/physically able to
do something, it's easy to miss the signs that they are in fact doing that
very thing. I suppose that would go towards why sirius entrusted Peter
with being the secret-keeper. Because it doesn't take brains to keep
a secret - and anyone outside the Maurader's (sp?) friendship wouldn't
have thought that James and Lily would have ever considered anyone but
their *best* friend.

Re: the Fidelius charm w/o Dumbledore. I haven't acutally gone throught
PoA with a fine-tooth comb in a while, but I thought they DID do it with
help from Dumbledore.

About how Dumbledore and Hagrid knew where the Potters lived: well,
I assumed that since Peter hadn't kept his secret, the charm had been
broken and therefore everyone would be able to see the house again. Sort
of like a "reawakening"... Dumbledore knew where the Potters lived
*before* the Fidelius Charm, then mysteriously forgot all about it
when it was performed. Then, all of a sudden, he thinks to himself,
"Crap!" (okay, so Dumbledore would never say that...) "I know where
the Potters live! Something must have happened!" and rushed right over
there. Just a speculation, of course.

I don't know what to say about Remus not believing that Sirius could
be innocent. Maybe it was just such a traumatic time for him (he did,
after all, lose two of his friends and his third was accused of the
crime) that he couldn't bear to think of other possibilities. Besides,
if he thought that Sirius had done those things, he would have assumed
that Sirius wouldn't have taken their friendship to heart, either, and
it would have seemed to him that he'd just been naive to trust him in
the first place.

Re: Crouch jr's trial. Well, doesn't it say somewhere (in the section
where Dumbledore was going over his memories with Harry) that one of
the reasons Crouch jr. got a trial was because he was Crouch Sr.'s
son? Besides, it wasn't much of a trial, was it? Sort of like a public
accusation. Sort of a chance for Crouch Sr. to prove that he wasn't
favoring anyone caught as a Death Eater - even his own son.

Anyway, sorry for the length - it's been about 3 days since I've started
taking classes again myself (at the college where I teach), and I've
been too busy and stressed out to even read any of the messages in that
time. Good thing that things have slowed down a bit. :)

Jen (who hates her job now and wishes she could afford to quit)