Ummm, Let's Not Use Dumbledore (was: Why is everyone so convinced

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 82345

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" 
<talisman22457 at y...> wrote:
> Sirius's *just too clever* idea of switching with a weak toady 
> because no one (in their right mind) would expect (or do) such a 
> thing is so like the guy, who, when Lupin asked him for help 
> studying for the O.W.L.s, "snorted [,] `I don't need to look at 
that 
> rubbish, I know it all.'" (OoP 645)

I think this is very unfair to him. Here you have a situation of 
fear, Voldemort steadily taking over, you don't know who to trust, 
etc. They are new parents, they know their baby is in mortal danger. 
Naturally they turn to the 3 most trusted friends. They nominate 
Sirius as secret keeper. The OoP all know about it. Then they start 
suspecting Lupin. If they know that the suspect (Lupin) knows that 
Sirius is secret keeper, it makes absolute sense to switch, and if 
so, why not turn to a person whom you've been close friends with for 
over a decade. It is not Sirius' fault that one of his 3 best 
friends turned out to be traitor and that it was not the one he 
thought. Moreover, the poor man paid for his mistake with absolute 
hell for the last 14 years of his life.

> Yeah, he knows it all.  And, it's hard to believe that Lily and 
> James would have gone along with the great switch idea, if they'd 
> been told.  So, in granting himself the right to make the decision 
> for everyone, Sirius displayed yet another act of incredible 
> arrogance.

I am sure that Lily and James knew about the switch.
 
> Friendship is a wonderful thing, but it doesn't mean you don't 
know 
> you friends limitations.

Did they have any evidence to suggest that Peter was the traitor? 
Especially if he continued to display that adoring behaviour towards 
James as was seen in the pensieve? Just for comparison, think what a 
shock to Harry (or to us readers) it would be if Dobby would turn 
out to be a Voldemort spy. After all, his attitude towards Harry is 
similar to Peter's in the pensieve incident.

Salit