A Traitor in Their Midst

[Tracy Hunt]

No: HPFGUIDX 86109


<justcarol67 at y...> 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

now Tcy:

Carol,  I'm not sure of the interview...but the start of the ESE!
Lupin on this site can be blamed...um, I mean attributed to Pippin.  
I believe the start of it was post Pippin's post #39562.  In this 
post, she posited that Lupin was ESE from his first scene (he gave 
the Trio tainted chocolate). 

You can search the archives, though it takes a while.  Some of the 
other posts you might find interesting are: 

39952, 51925, 51990, 52129, and 57900.

You can also find links to many good posts at: 

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/mysteries.html
(under Magical Creatures - about 1/3 of the way down the page)

Hope that helps a little...good luck!

Tcy