[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore, Snape observations

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2423

Joywitch wrote:

> I think that the reason why Dumbledore wasnt the Potters secretkeeper
> is that the good guys knew that Voldy was likely to go after the
> secretkeeper and torture him.  Sirius Black was willing to die to
> save his friends; he thought (mistakenly, of course) that Peter
> Pettigrew was too.  Dumbledore was too valuable a person, as head of
> the anti-Voldy army, to risk.

On the other hand, as the only person Voldemort feared, Dumbledore was an
excellent choice. But to lift from an earlier post of mine,

Gen wrote:

> did you ever wonder why if James could hand over the Invisibility
> Cloak and Gringotts safe key over to Dumbledore, why didn't he
> consider Dumbledore as secret keeper ?

Dumbledore offered. In book 3, ch 10, McGonagall says she remembers that
Dumbledore offered, because he was sure someone close to the Potters was a
Voldmort informant, but that James insisted on using Sirius, and "told
Dumbledore that Black would die rather than tell where they were."

The reason Dumbledore wasn't was that James said no.

--Amanda