[HPforGrownups] A Traitor in Their Midst

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 86079

At 20:19 29/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Carol wrote
>Can anyone direct me to the interview in which JKR suggests that Harry
>or his side will be betrayed by someone Harry trusts? I did a search
>for both "traitor" and "betrayal" using the interview search engine
>and came up with nothing.
>
>Two related questions:
>
>1)Is that interview the source of all the ESE! speculation? If not,
>what (aside from an incurable impulse to theorize) is that train of
>thought all about? and
>
>2) Why does the traitor have to be a member of the Order? I really
>don't buy Dumbledore, McGonagall, Lupin, Snape, or Bill as ESE. Why
>not a member of Dumbledore's Army, if not (ugh) Cho, how about a
>Gryffindor? My candidate of the moment is Seamus, who believed the
>lies about Harry in the Daily Prophet. He would make a nice parallel
>to Peter Pettigrew, a trusted roommate who drifted to the wrong side
>through weakness. (Then again, his dad's a muggle, which would make
>his family, and Dean Thomas's, candidates for extermination by the
>DEs.) Or maybe Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown?
>
>Reactions or suggestions, anybody?
>
>Carol

Tanya here.

Sorry, can't help with any links, but heres my ideas.  I feel that whoever
it is will be in Harry's generation.  The generation before already has it's
traitor.  Not really looked and figured out who could have a weakness of
character like Peter though.

Tanya