The Fateful Night (VERY long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 42328

pippin wrote: 
> Sirius, in his account of events at the Shrieking Shack, does not 
> mention Hagrid, or the motorbike, or trying to take Harry with him. 
> I maintain that we cannot state as fact that the person Hagrid 
> met at Godric's Hollow was Sirius. 

> IMO, it is much more likely to have been polyjuiced Pettigrew. It 
is  
> hard for me to understand why Sirius would have wanted to take 
> Harry with him if he was a) overwhelmed with grief for the Potters 
> b) bent on finding Peter and c) knew that Dumbledore was taking 
> personal responsibility for Harry's safety. I find it hard to 
believe 
> that the real Sirius would have argued against Dumbledore's 
> orders with Hagrid. It was Fake!Moody's disregard of 
> Dumbledore's orders that finally tipped Dumbledore off to his 
> disguise. I think that's a clue.

Why would it be in Pettigew's plan to use Polyjuice to turn into 
Black?  His and Voldemort's plan was to find the Potters, kill them, 
then probably have Pettigew frame Black.  If they had succeeded, 
Pettigew would have waited until word of the Potters' deaths had 
spread, then go immediately to the MOM as a witness that Black was 
the secret keeper.

If Pettigew had really been there with Hagrid, and he wanted to take 
Harry, which I doubt, he could have just AK'ed Hagrid to get him out 
of the way.  Pettigew might be much smaller than Hagrid, but he's 
much more magically powerful than Hagrid is.

--Hei Lun