[HPforGrownups] Re: The Sorting Hat

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87347


Kneasy
>
> Oh but  he did. He knew who the new Secret Keeper was.
> Voldy, first and foremost was after information. In the first instance the
> whereabouts of the Potters, so he wasn't going to kill Sirius on sight.
>
> When Sirius handed over the Secret Keepers job to Peter, he could no
longer
> divulge that information. But he could tell Voldy who the new Secret
Keeper was.
> And under Imperio! or Cruciatus! he would, too.
> So James and Lily were no better off.
>
> If Sirius' brilliant plan had worked as intended, then five people would
have
> been killed (Sirius, Peter, James, Lily and Harry) instead of four
(Sirius, James,
> Lily and Harry).
>
K
Right, of course and when Sirius vanished Peter was going to sit around and
say oh Sirius has been captured I'll just wait here for Voldemort to catch
up to me. Rubbish. The time Sirius was holding out and not revealing
information would either give Peter a chance to hide or have the Potters
change hiding place and secret keeper.

It's the same reason resistance movements use cut-outs - instead of person A
dealing directly with person B they do so through person C so that either
one of them being captured can't bring the whole organization down, each
person can only lead to one person giving the others the chance to hide/run.
Sirius would be doing for Peter exactly what James was doing for his
family - not trying to defeat the enemy but rather give the others time to
leave. They don't give too many details of the plan but it would be a
reasonable assumption that Sirius and Peter were in regular contact, which
would mean that if Sirius vanished Peter could hide/run.

K