OOP: Spy?--spoiler

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No: HPFGUIDX 65603



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> cantoramy wrote:
> I am wondering if Mundungus is not necessarily a spy, but was the 
> one who inadvertently told LV about the prophecy.  Sirius tells 
> Harry that the "witch" with the long veil in the Hog's Head was 
> Mundungus; he must go there in disguise, because the bartender has 
a long memory and Mundungus was banned from there 20 years ago. (US, 
> p. 370, chapter 17)  When DD tells Harry the prophecy, which is now 
> 16 years old, he says that LV heard only the first part of it, 
> because the eavesdropper was detected and thrown out of the pub 
> before Sybill Trelawney had finished it. (US, p. 843, chapter 37)  
> If the eavesdropper *were* Mundungus, he might have let it slip to 
> Wormtail that he heard this prophecy.  Since we know that Wormtail 
> betrayed the Order, this could be possible.  Did the eavesdropper 
> know there was more to the prophecy than he had heard?  And why did 
> LV wait 15 months after Harry was born to try to kill him?  Is that 
> how long it took for Sirius to change his mind and make Wormtail 
> the Secret-Keeper? >>>> 


This seems very likely to me. Rowling doesn't usually slip details 
like this in by accident. I think you're right for sure.


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