OOP: (Sirius) A person is more than the worst thing they have done

[Juliet]

No: HPFGUIDX 63903


Pip!Squeak:
>>
Sirius, Lupin and Peter between them never suggest that Peter begged 
for the role of 
Secret Keeper, suggested that he be Secret Keeper or asked in any 
way, shape or form for the role of Secret Keeper.
>>

Well, that's what makes a good spy, does it not?  And we'd have to 
assume Peter was a good spy, if he lasted a year giving information 
to Voldemort about his three closest friends right under Dumbledoe's 
crooked nose.  So no, I don't see him asking.  I see him having no 
problems in accepting, though, when it was offered to him.  


Pip!Squeak:
>>
As you say, Sirius had a really good plan. Terrific. The only thing 
it required was that Peter risk death and torture for his friends.
>>

Actually, it required Sirius risk the above for his friends(including 
Peter), since he was the Bluff Secret Keeper and no one, except the 
Potters, Black, and Pettigrew, knew who the real Secret Keeper was.  
That is, until Pettigrew went and told Voldemort. 


Pip!Squeak:
>>
Because, you see, Peter was weak, and talentless, and if Voldemort 
had managed to Legilimens the identity of the Secret Keeper out of 
the captured Sirius, Peter would have had about as much chance as a 
snowball in Hell.
>>

But it sounds like, in OoP, that Sirius knows what Occlumency and 
Ligilimency is(and why Harry needs to learn the former), so he knows 
full well what Voldemort is capable of in that department.


Pip!Squeak:
>>Possibly he really did 
feel he had genuinely no choice but to betray his friends and would 
have been delighted if someone else was the Secret Keeper.>>

So...Peter didn't plan to turn in Lily and James,then?  He was first 
bullied by Sirius to be Secret-Keeper and then bullied by Voldemort 
to betray them? 

 Well, that's fine and dandy, but a few holes are glaring at me.  1- 
How did V-mort know Pettigrew was the Secret-Keeper? 2- Why was there 
no sign of a struggle at Pettigrew's hide out? and 3- How does that 
rather elaborate plan of framing Sirius get explained as being not 
something Peter had thought up?  


~Aldrea