Fidelius Charm/Sirius

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 33677

> Eloise wrote:
> > But WHY did Sirius feel the need to create a bluff in switching 
to 
> Pettigrew? 


Mahoney anwered:

> You know, I've always thought that fit well with what we saw of 
> Sirius.  Imho, the fact that he didn't stand up for himself when 
> arrested for 'killing' Pettigrew, as well as the fact that he went 
on 
> such a gloomy mission when he broke out of prison ~ he only hoped 
to 
> kill Pettigrew before he himself was caught and either sent back to 
> prison or Dementor-kissed, basically; no thought at all of the more 
> upbeat possibility of clearing himself ~ makes me think that maybe 
he 
> didn't necessarily trust himself to *not* give up the secret.  
That, 
> or he was absolutely sure that it would be assumed he was the 
secret 
> keeper, and that he'd be captured and tortured at some point.  

As much as I like Sirius, there is one little problem with his 
strategy.  He says he feared Voldemort would come after him and he 
planned to go into hiding.  Got it.  He suggested Peter be 
secretkeeper as a bluff.  OK.  If and when Voldemort captured Sirius 
and tortured him, Sirius was apparently worried that he would be 
broken and would disclose the location of the Potters.  Uh, huh.  
Doesn't this whole plan hinge on the supposition that, when Voldemort 
is torturing Sirius, that Sirius won't say, "You know, you shouldn't 
waste perfectly good Cruciatus Curses on me, as Pettigrew is the one 
you want."  So how does Sirius' bluff make the Potters any more safe?

Cindy (wondering how James and Sirius, the two most clever students 
in the school, could come up with such a wobbly plan)