Pettigrew's effectiveness I(Re: Rats! (Or: A Treatise on Ron and Evil))

[Strix <kethlenda@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48279

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "clicketykeys 
<clicketykeys at y...>" <clicketykeys at y...> wrote:

> > It's easy to miss with everything else that's going on, but 
during 
> > the Shrieking Shack scene Sirius mentions that Peter was 
passing 
> > information to Voldemort for a year.
> 
> Hm. Interesting thought... how would Sirius have known what 
Peter's 
> function was? Either this was an empty accusation founded on 
anger, or 
> he has some kind of inside information.

I think what happened there is that Sirius *suspected* a spy for 
about an year before Lily and James died.  Maybe L and J kept 
narrowly escaping the bad guys until they tried the Fidelius 
Charm.  He thought the spy was Lupin; Lupin thought it was 
Sirius.  They were both wrong, but there really was a traitor in 
their midst.  When Sirius found out that Pettigrew was a traitor, 
he figured, "OK, he was the spy all along."  I don't think he 
needed inside information to make that comment, but I can't say 
for sure.  

Strix