Lily and the Marauders

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 33931

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., m.bockermann at t... wrote:
> 
> But one thing I am certain on: something happened to disrupt the
> gang/group/clique´... around James Potter. And it happened before 
he and
> Lily were killed.

> What continues to bother me is the fact that both Sirius and Remus 
accepted
> so easily that - as they believed - the other had turned out to be a
> traitor. I mean we know that they were both close friends to James. 
Both
> Sirius and James were close enough to help Remus with his fate by 
becoming
> animagi.
> 
> When the Potters were killed I would have thought they would look 
for the
> blame elsewhere: that somebody else was a traitor (maybe even 
Peter), that -
> if the traitor was one of their friends - he or she might have been 
under
> the influence of the Imperius curse or something entirely else. But 
what
> *did* they do? Sirius blamed Remus, Remus blamed Sirius. 



Once the Potters were dead Sirius knew the traior was Peter and not 
Remus.  Sirius and Remus became distrustful of each other before 
James and Lily died.  

 
> What in the world happened that made it possible for them to 
believe that
> one of their best friends had commited treason?
> 
> If Lily was a disruptive factor for the Marauders who - without 
meaning -
> losened the strength of their friendship... maybe that was a 
factor. But if
> it was not, or not the deciding factor - then what was it?

 

File it under the category of "We Don't Yet Have Enough Information."

Of course, after the Potters' deaths Remus believes with the rest of 
the wizarding world that Sirius did it.  As yet we have no evidence 
that he or anyone else who presumably knew and/or worked with Sirius 
made any attempt to see him.  If I had been in Remus' shoes I would 
have wanted to look that traitor in the eyes and 1) tell him what I 
thought of him and 2) ask him WHY?  What did Voldemort offer that 
made him do this?

We can make up all sort of situations that James and Sirius and Remus 
may have been in that somehow one of them misinterpreted to the point 
of suspecting another in the group of being a spy.  For instance, 
they're in a room talking about an upcoming raid on a bunch of DEs.  
Peter had been there, but he left because he's not involved with 
this.  He sneaks back in in his rat form, unseen by the others, and 
hears the plan.  The plan goes badly wrong - Sirius knows he's not 
the traitor, he's pretty sure James isn't, either, so that leaves 
Remus as a potential spy.  Did Remus pass information on, or did 
things just go wrong because sometimes bad stuff happens?

Perhaps one of Voldemort's greatest weapons is not only his power as 
a wizard, but an ability to sow discord and distrust among his 
enemies.

Marianne, who really, really, really hopes some of these questions 
will have canon answers soon.