photo vs. painting in magical world/DD's legilimency & 1st OoP/worse than death

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 80455

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wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
> Another idea that struck me sometime after I read OoP was how 
> Dumbledore, if he possessed the skill of Legilimency could not know 
> who was the traitor in the first Order of the Phoenix.  It appears 
> that Snape needed to be skilled in Occlumency to be able to spy on 
> Death Eaters, but Pettigrew didn't in order to spy on the first 
Order 
> of the Phoenix.  In fact, in PoA, Professor McGonagall says in the 
> Three Broomsticks that before the Potters went into hiding, DD "was 
> sure that somebody close to the Potters had been keeping You-Know-
Who 
> informed of their movements.  Indeed, he had suspected for some 
time 
> that someone on our side had turned traitor and was passing a lot 
of 
> information to You-Know-Who" (PoA, ch. 10, p. 205).  And Sirius 
tells 
> Pettigrew when he confronts him in the Shrieking Shack, "You had 
been 
> passing information to him for a year before Lily and James died" 
> (PoA, ch. 19, p. 374), which Pettigrew doesn't deny.  So DD is well 
> aware that "somebody close to the Potters" is "passing a lot of 
> information to You-Know-Who," but he can't decide who among the 
three 
> people is actually doing it.  This seems rather strange, doesn't 
it? 
> 
> Zinaida.

It's very possible that Dumbledore did know that Peter was the spy 
and was continuing to let him act in that manner as a way of having 
an in on Voldemort (ie, using Peter to pass along false 
information).  To this end, Dumbledore may not have told anyone who 
the spy was.

Then when the Potters go into hidding, they switch their secret-
keeper at the last minute without informing Dumbledore (as much has 
been said in PoA, Dumbledore testimony put Sirius in Azkaban).  
Dumbledore therefore can't warn the Potters not to use Peter.

Serena