Will Seamus be the traitor?

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No: HPFGUIDX 42805



> btk6y said:
> 
> Hey, thought I'd bring up something I'd been mulling over for a 
> while.  There's obviously a lot of theories about whether Ron will 
> betray Harry or not.  What if Seamus becomes the traitor?<<<<<<
> 
HF wrote-

> I honestly don't think so, unless there's a *lot* of development in 
>Seamus' character through the next three books. We simply don't know 
>much about him at all, other than that he's a rabid Irish National 
>fan in GoF and manages to blow things up in PS/SS.> 

I doubt Seamus would be the traitor given that he has said his mother 
is a witch while his father is a Muggle. Not the type of person 
Voldie would welcome with open arms. But he also said his mother 
didn't tell his father she was a witch until after they were married 
and that it was a nasty shock for him. Could this be a repeat of Tom 
Riddle's abandonment by his father due to his magical abilities?  

>
> Additionally, I'm not entirely sure why there *has* to be a traitor 
>in the first place. It provides symmetry, I suppose, with 
>Pettigrew's betrayal of the Potters, but still... maybe we're all a 
>bit too wrapped up in our suspicion-slash-Judas complex and 
our 'need' to have someone be the token turncoat. Given the story so 
far, there's no clear traitor in Harry's midst, at least among the 
Gryffindors, only our febrile speculation as to possible motivation 
and opportunity, much of which has a considerable amount of 
contradictory evidence (esp. in the case of Ron.) Further, it may be 
possible that any 'betrayal' might be completely inadvertent or be 
forced, eg. someone being placed under Imperius, being blackmailed, 
or maybe accidentally leaving a piece of crucial information out in 
the open, not deliberate, as it apparently was with Pettigrew.
>
>
 
I wonder if the betray will be about the battle with Lord Voldemort. 
It could be about a more trivial matter but important to Harry, like 
Quidditch or Cho Chang. I too believe if Neville is the traitor it 
will be by accident and hopefully he will be given a chance to redeem 
himself. Another possibility could be someone is falsly believed to 
have betrayed Harry but is cleared in a later book like Sirius.

-Olivia Grey