[HPforGrownups] Re: Who was witness to the killing [SORRY]?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 42223

On 7 Aug 2002 at 0:50, bboy_mn wrote:

> [Sorry, I messed up and hit the SEND button accidently.]
> 
> If a friend of Voldemort's is speaking, then why is he telling Lily to
> '...take Harry and go! .... I'll hold him off---'?

How about, because presumably, Peter didn't want anyone to know he was a friend 
of Voldemort's - if Lily had survived, and Peter had 'warned' her, it might have made 
it a lot easier for him to maintain his cover. He certainly would have been 
questioned - he was the Secret Keeper. Lily's testimony that he had been there to 
warn him might have been part of a plan to maintain his cover "Voldemort followed 
me - I tried to warn them, but I was too late."

Voldemort could have been in on it, as a way of keeping a trusted agent in place.

Yours Without Wax, Dreadnought
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