DEs DID Know Peter was the spy

[Stephanie Roark Keener]

No: HPFGUIDX 15946

I forgot to say that this is on page 370 (American) of PoA.
S



--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Stephanie Roark Keener" <sdrk1 at y...> 
wrote:
> (If someone has already posted this, forgive me)
> 
> Lately, there has been some discusssion of the question of Death 
> Eater's identity being a secret to each other.  I assumed it 
probably 
> was (the point someone made about secret societies operating that 
way 
> (e.g. the KKK in the US) is a strong and extremely valid 
arguement.)  
> However, as I read PoA -- again -- I noticed this passage:
> 
> "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...
> 
> Stephanie