[HPforGrownups] Re: Potters' choice of a secret keeper

[millergal8 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 43499

In a message dated 9/2/02 12:43:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
greywolf1 at jazzfree.com writes:

<< IMO, they didn't choose Dumbledore for the same reason that they didn't 
 accept Sirius to begin with: it was too obvious a choice. >>

  Actually, Sirius was accepted as the secret keeper.  "I persuaded Lily and 
James to change to Peter at the last moment..."  So James and Lily were set 
to trust Sirius with their secret.  Sirius just realized he was too high 
profile to be effective.  I must give you props on the why didn't they go 
back to Dumbledore theory though.  I have wondered that since the first time 
I read the books and had not thought of that one.   Thanks.  As for Lupin 
being the suspected spy, I don't think Lupin was necassarily the only name on 
the list.  Sirius was simply convinced because he knew he couldn't be the 
spy,  didn't give Peter enough credit, so that leaves Lupin.  Now surely 
there were other people who were close to the Potters after school.  They 
could just as easily been suspected, Sirius merely thought Lupin because he 
was probably in the habit of thinking of the four friends. 

Christy