Some Thoughts On Some Stuff eg Sirius, Wormtail, The Map and more

[evenflow200214]

No: HPFGUIDX 45842

Reading PoA, although it seems pretty obvious on the surface that 
Sirius was a victim of Wormtail's deceit, there's some stuff that 
throws some doubt on Sirius...

Firstly, why did he change? He called Wormtail a bluff, he thought 
that Voldemort came after him. If he thought that, why didn't he keep 
it? Because logically, if Voldemort suspected that Sirius was the 
Secret Keeper and Sirius told no-one about it, Voldemort would track 
Sirius down and when he couldn't get it out of him, kill him, then 
move on to Lupin or Peter... who would perhaps die. Was it cowardice 
that put his friends at risk? Or was it just simple miscalculation?

And why, if he was so convinced that there was a mole in the group, 
as someone put it, why didn't he go to Dumbledore? Give the Secret 
Keeper position to him.. He knew that Dumbledore was the only wizard 
that Voldemort was recitent about approaching, if push came to shove, 
Dumbledore would take on Voldemort... So why didn't he give it to 
Dumbledore? Dumbledore offered to be Secret Keeper which brings me to 
my next point...

Dumbledore was convinced there was a spy in their midst... He tried 
to talk the Potters OUT of letting Sirius become their keeper... 
Knowing Dumbledore is a trusting guy (Hagrid, Lupin, Snape) its a bit 
odd that's he is weary of Sirius becoming Secret Keeper... So we can 
say what is it about Sirius that caused them all to think that he was 
the traitor? And if Sirius had gone to Dumbledore, he could have kept 
The Potters safe... Was there another reason for going to Wormtail?

As for the Marauder's Map, is it possible that they were involved in 
Dark Magic to make it? The map almost has their personalities inside 
it with the jokes it threw at Snape... With that we saw, adolescent 
Sirius, adolescent Peter... The last time we saw something remotely 
like this was Tom Riddle's diary and we all know how he turned out... 
Also the Map seems to pick and choose who you can see, otherwise 
Harry would have noticed the whole student body when he looked at 
it... it must have taken some power and knowledge to get it exactly 
right, could one if not more had been involved or at least knew some 
Dark Arts?

Crouch (again, sorry!)

Is it wise that he tries to  kill Harry? We know that the whole point 
of Voldemort making this whole intricate, step by step plan 
throughout GoF is to kill Harry... he could have grabbed hold on any 
wizard who hated him but he wanted to kill Harry... Would Voldemort 
have been happy for Crouch to do it?

Also, McGonagall... At the start of Book 1, McGonagall asks 
Dumbledore "how he knew it was her" when she changes back from a 
cat... Dumbledore was the Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts... Is 
that worth looking into?

--evenflow