DEs DID Know Peter was the spy

[Paul W. Hanbury, Jr.]

No: HPFGUIDX 15939

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...> 
wrote:
> "What, scared to hear your old master's name," said Black.  "I 
don't 
> blame you, Peter.  His lot aren't happy with you, are they?"
> "Don't know what you mean Sirius --" muttered Pettigrew...
> "You haven't been hiding from me for twelve years," said 
> Black.  "You've been hiding from V.'s old suppoorters.  I heard 
> things in Azkaban, Peter... They all think you're dead...or you'd 
> have to answer to them.  I heard them screaming all kinds of things 
> in their sleep. ..."
> 
> So, apparently at least a few of them knew Peter, and not Sirius, 
was 
> a spy for them.  Maybe just the ones in Azkaban...  I hope that 
Snape 
> was out of the loop by this time, because if HE knew that Sirius 
was 
> innocent and never told Dumbledore, he's rotten.  I know Sirius 
> played an extremely cruel and dangerous trick on him in school, 
but, 
> whew, to let an innocent man rot in Azkaban over a grudge...

If they believe that Peter is dead, they probably 
think that Serius killed him.  They may be looking
for Peter for a different rotten thing that he did.
Peter may have staged his death in order to hide 
from the Death Eaters, with the lucky side effect of 
getting Serius locked away.

What that "different rotten thing" might be I can't
even imagine.  If it was turning against Voldemorte,
Snape would be in big trouble, too, unless Dumbledore
is really powerfuly enough to protect him from all of
the Death Eaters and Voldemorte himself.  

I would rather believe that Peter was just a really evil
individual who wronged many of his fellow Death Eaters and
now they're all holding thier own individual grudges 
against him.