[HPforGrownups] Re: The Sorting Hat

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87337



>
> Kneasy:
> Do I detect a soupcon of irony? Can it be my cover is blown?
>
K

That wasn't irony. It was sarcasm :)




>
> Kneasy:
> I wouldn't trust Sirius as far as I could throw him.
> He's weak. He makes excuses for his weaknesses to give a sort of spurious
> logic to them. He opted out as Secret Keeper - why? Did it give more
> protection to James and Lily? No. It was a meaningless gesture. Unless he
> placed a notice in the Daily Prophet Voldy would have come for him anyway.


K

You've misunderstood the idea behind him not being secret keeper. He didn't
want a 'notice in the daily prophet' because no one was supposed to know he
wasn't the secret keeper. Voldemort was *supposed* to come for him - and he
wouldn't be able to tell him anything because he didn't know anything. The
idea was to let Voldemort waste his time chasing after Sirius (who
presumably would have gone into hiding if it looked like Voldemort was
getting close) instead of going after the person who was *really* the Secret
Keeper. In other words he was going to put his life in danger so that James
would be safe while making sure that if he was captured he couldn't betray
the secret. That's why no one other than James and Lily, Peter (the new
secret keeper) and Sirius knew about the change.

K