DEs knowing about Pettigrew (was re: too many topics to list)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 42510

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eloiseherisson at a... wrote:

> As for how the DEs in Azkaban know? Well, first of all, we don't
know at what 
> point DEs in the know went into Azkaban - quite possibly *after*
Sirius, in 
> the post-Voldemort round-ups. By this time, someone (it would only
take one) 
> may have worked out that his fellow cell member was missing on the
night in 
> question, or perhaps Peter had even told someone that he had an
important 
> mission with Voldemort that night, I wouldn't put it past him to
bolster his 
> ego like that - someone who perhaps knew that Pettigrew had a
connection with 
> the Potters and who could put two and two together. Snape's spying
duties 
> after Voldemort's fall must have been rather different (particularly
if the 
> DEs all went their own ways and tried to cover their tracks, rather
than 
> banding together to try and trying to help Voldemort) so that he
didn't hear 
> these rumours.

I think it's even more localized than that.  I think that before
Voldemort's fall, only he and one other highly-placed DE knew about
Peter.  Voldemort would've wanted the identity of such an important
mole kept secret, but he had to have a back-up contact in case Peter
had urgent information to report and the big boss was busy.  After
Voldemort disappears, this back-up DE (Mrs. LeStrange, maybe?) ends up
in Azkaban, and bitches to the other inmates about how that little
traitor Wormtail ruined everything.  So that's how they all know. 
Snape, never having been in Azkaban, doesn't know.

Marina
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