[HPforGrownups] Kreacher: Prophet, Plotter or Pawn?

[liz]

No: HPFGUIDX 86877

on 10/12/03 7:01 am, thelinnealand at LinneaLand at CS.com wrote:

> In Oop, Out of the Fire, Harry has been talking with Kreacher who
> duplicitously tells him Sirius is not there.
> 
> "But you know!" shouted Harry. "Don't you? You know where he is!"
> The was a moment's silence, then the elf let out his loudest cackle yet.
> 
> "Master will not come back from the Department of Mysteries!" he said
> gleefully. "Kreacher and his Mistress are alone again!"
> And he scurried forward and disappeared...
> 
> Granted Kreacher knew of the plot to lure Harry to the DoM from his
> visit with the Malfoys. Granted also that Harry suggested that Sirius
> was there already.
> 
> But why, or how, did he know that Sirius would truly go and then not
> return??? 

I don't think he did. Kreacher IS part of the plot to lure Harry to the DoM.
He deliberately injured Buckbeak so Sirius would be out of the way for his
little chat with Harry. His comments are simply designed to make Harry think
Voldemort has Sirius, and that Sirius is in mortal peril. If Kreacher
appears confident of these facts, whether or not they are true, Harry is
more likely to believe him, and so fall into the trap.

Liz