Kreacher: Prophet, Plotter or Pawn?

[thelinnealand]

No: HPFGUIDX 86899

I (Linnea) 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 and that Harry suggested Sirius at the MoM.
 
But why, or how, did he know that SB would truly go and not return?


Liz:
> 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 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.


Linnea: 
Yes, this is certainly true. But is it the whole story? 
The way that Kreacher says it so "matter of factly" has a ring of
well, fact.

Kreacher wanted Harry to know that he was in on the plot of LV to kill
SB, who was Kreachers acknowleged "sworn" master? (I am referring here
to Dobbys comments regarding House Elf enslavement)

Alarm bells?
Did I miss SB throwing a boot at Kreacher or something?
Is Kreacher "free" now to plot against SB?

It could be reconciled if, for example, while at the Malfoys, LM had
some way of showing Kreacher that SB did indeed die at the MoM.
Otherwise... what?

That Kreacher's Mistress is a portrait; well, that's not right
either. 
Why?  Narcissa and even Bellatrix still live.  Extra magic, I guess.

And the way he said it.  
Gleefully.  
Sure he hated SB; mud-blood lover etc., but it doesn't sound to me
like the way he would say it if he was just trying to lure Harry to
the MoM. 

Linnea... left muttering to herself...