Pettigrew above suspicion

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19837

Hope this isn't a double post...

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:
> My feeling [...] has always been that everyone had a blind spot as 
> far as Pettigrew was concerned.  I think that Sirius went through a 
> process of elimination that went "I know James and Lily aren't spies, 
> and neither am I, so who else can it be except Remus?"  I believe 
> since Peter never seems to be credited with have superior smarts or 
> to be considered at all powerful, and that he seems to have been a 
> tag-along sort of person, he was ultimately overlooked.

Is it possible that Voldemort and Pettigrew had cast their _own_
Fidelius Charm first, the secret in their case being that
Pettigrew was working for V.?

That would account for no one suspecting Pettigrew, despite repeated
leaks of secret information, the Dark Mark, and his "Voldie Lives"
lapel button.

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)