Secret Keeper Switch (WAsRe: choices / Mama Fridwulfa / Secret Keeper switch

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 110921

mhbobbin wrote :
" Per Professor McGonagall: "James Potter told DD that Black would die
rather than tell where they were, that Black was planning to go into
hiding himself... and yet, DD remained worried." "

Del replies :
Which means that things went like that : McG says that DD told her
that James had told him that Sirius had told him he intended to go
into hiding. Or if you prefer : Sirius told James who told DD who told
McG.
But I see 3 problems with that :
1. Sirius could have lied to James, to prevent him from worrying.
That's improbable though, because it's not in line with his plan to
pretend to be SK and to make LV come after him.
2. James could have lied to DD. That one is *very* probable. DD was
insisting that James make him, not Sirius, SK. But James had his own
reasons not to do so. So in order to get DD off his back, he might
simply have told him not to worry because Sirius intended to go into
hiding anyway. After all, both Sirius and James must have known that
DD would disapprove thoroughly of Sirius's crazy plan. As someone else
pointed out, what made Sirius believe he could resist LV ? DD would
have been quick to point that out too.
3. DD could have lied to McG. I don't know why he would have done
that, but DD has shown repeatedly that he is not to be believed
blindy. Followed yes, but believed no.

So I'm not sure we can assume that McG had the real version of
Sirius's intents. Especially when on the other hand we have Sirius
himself telling us first hand that he had no intention to go into hiding.

Del