Lilly, James and Sirius

[thetruthisoutthere_13]

No: HPFGUIDX 74439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "curly_of_oster" 
<lkadlec at p...> wrote:
 The fact that he tries to 
> take custody of Harry and that when he can't what happens is that 
he 
> ends up tracking Peter down doesn't of necessity mean that he 
> intended to drag Harry along on the search *if* Hagrid had 
actually 
> given him up.
> 
> Lisa

It's also possible that Peter tracked Sirius down. Remember that in 
PoA we find out that the official version of events in the Peter 
Pettigrew/Sirius Black confrontation was flawed, as we know that 
Sirius didn't kill those people. 

It's quite possible that Peter planned this confrontation out before 
hand--think of how he says "how could you" to Sirius before waving 
his wand behind his back, blowing up the street, turning himself 
into a rat, and then scampering off leaving Sirius with the blame. 
Granted we don't know that much about Pettigrew, but based on what 
we do know he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to come up with that 
plan on the spur of the moment. 

This was the perfect way for Pettigrew to hide, since the DE would 
be after him because Pettigrew was, partially, responsible for 
Voldemort's demise (responsible as in he sent Voldemort to the 
Potters, not responsible for Harry surviving). Having Black thought 
to be a crazy murderer also meant that 1) Sirius wouldn't be 
believed, 2) he would be viewed in the wizarding world as a hero, 
which for Peter must have felt good, even if he couldn't enjoy it as 
a rat, and it provided comfort to his parents.

-kg