OOP: Secret Keeper/Chapter 1 SS/Prophecy

[redwoman06]

No: HPFGUIDX 67463

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "l3al3y_Doll_3" 
<Kiss2Kiss1 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mullsym255" 
<tracym255 at a...> 
> wrote:
> > 

> 
> 
> > Another question I have is how many people "knew" that Sirius 
was 
> the 
> > Potter's secret keeper? Hagrid was part of the original Order of 
> the 
> > Phoenix but in PoA he says that he didn't know that Sirius was 
the 
> > Potter's secret keeper. McGonagall was NOT part of the original 
> Order 
> > but during this same scene, she seems very aware of the whole 
> secret 
> > keeper situation. She knew that Dumbledore suspected a spy among 
> the 
> > group and even remembers Dumbledore offering to be Lily and 
James' 
> > secret keeper. It appears she knew Sirius was the secret keeper 
as 
> > well. 
> 
> 
> I'm assuming of course only Dumbledore, Remus and possibly Peter 
> believed Sirius was supposed to be the Secret Keeper. After the 
> whole Pettigrew incident went down, news spread he had been the 
> culprit behind the Potters. So surely that's how everyone- 
> McGonagall, Hagrid and the rest of the WW, came to know. Twelve 
> years passed before Remus found out Lily and James switched to 
Peter.
> 
> 
> 
> > This reminds me of some problems I had with the first chapter of 
> SS. 
> > I still can't come up with an explanation as to why Dumbledore 
> > allowed Hagrid to return the motorcycle to Sirius. The whole 
thing 
> > seems a bit Flint-y to me. Did he know that Sirius had been 
> arrested 
> > at that point? If McGonagall was aware of the secret keeper 
> situation 
> > (as she seems to be in PoA), then why does she seem so clueless 
in 
> > this chapter? Why doesn't she ask about Sirius when Hagrid 
> mentions 
> > him?
> 
> 
> Seeing as Dumbledore's an expert in the art of Occlumency, I'm 
sure 
> he knew things during that time others didn't and wouldn't 
disclose 
> for his own reasons. And Pettigrew being blown into smithereens 
> hadn't happened yet, and remember Hagrid believed Sirius to be 
> guilty of everything after that. So when he approached Hagrid 
Hagrid 
> wouldn't have just kindly accepted help from him. And McGonagall 
> wasn't part of the Order yet so that explains her cluelessness. 
> 
> 
>>>>>Why was Mcgonagall be there a Privite Drive in the first place? 
If she wasn't in the Order her only connection would have been being 
the Potter Transfiguation teacher about 7 years before. 
   It doesn't make sense why DUMBLEDORE asked her to be there if she 
had nothing to do with the fight against Voldemorte or any known 
connection to the Potters and the Order.