[HPforGrownups] Back to Harry and a question?

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 5639

eliasberg at ioc.net at eliasberg at ioc.net wrote:

> We also discussed the problem of the inner circle of Voldemort.
> After both of us finished Blaise's awesome fic, we couldn't figure
> out why Snape didn't know that Sirius was innocent, and Peter
> was the informer. Snape says in the GoF that when Voldemort
> touched the mark they all apparated to his side to form the circle
> of Death Eaters. He would have seen Peter there in the circle,
> and not Sirius. Sirius was supposed to be Voldemort's second
> in command, a position that no Death Eater wouldn't know he
> held, so we were confused. Does anyone have a theory?

I'm pretty sure that it's established somewhere in the GoF Pensieve scene
that the entire membership of the DEs was a secret from all except Voldy
himself. That way, we can extrapolate, if/when members were captured, they
couldn't reveal more than their own "cell". It works the same way as
resistance fighters/terrorists/whatever you call them depending on which
side you're on. A group of 2-5 works better than a group of 100 because one
traitor/informant in the group negates them all.

Ergo, does Snape actually *say* or is he actually shown to *know* that
Sirius was his second-in-command? I'm thinking that Dumbledore (and others)
would have kept Snape's involvement if not to himself then restricted to a
very need-to know group.

My four thousand euros (two cents).

--John

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