Cedric and Pettigrew (was Re: Faking Sirius' Death?)
pippin_999
foxmoth at qnet.com
Sun Feb 29 17:33:13 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 91819
Naama
>>Another point. If Peter's death was necessary to prevent his
telling the identitiy of the second, more important, double agent,
an immediate corollary is that Peter knows his identity. Since you
obviously mean the second double agent as Lupin, why didn't
Peter confront Lupin with this in the Shrieking Shack? Once
Lupin had returned the wands to the trio, why didn't he accuse
Lupin of betraying the Potters, telling everything he knows, in the
hope of turning the kids and Sirius against Lupin? <<
Pippin:
Snape was unconscious. Even if Peter could somehow
convince them all, it would still be two unarmed men and three
kids, one of them badly hurt, against a Death Eater werewolf.
Lupin was the biggest bully in the playground and he still had
his own wand tucked into his belt. If he even needed it. Quirrell
could cast a killing curse without a wand; we can't ignore the
possibility that Lupin could too.
Pippin previously:
>> My theory is that once Voldemort was safely in the
cauldron, our stealthy second wandsman darted in and put the
wand in the pocket.<<
Naama:
>>I don't quite get this - Harry was meant to be well and dead -
whether Voldemort resurrection succeeded or not. Why the
secrecy, then?<<
Pippin:
Harry will be allowed his chance to speak and fight before the
end. It would be inconvenient if he outed second wandsman in
front of Voldemort's dubiously loyal henchwizards. Voldemort
doesn't consider himself invulnerable, far from it. He hasn't lost
his fear of Dumbledore and second wandsman is his spy in
Dumbledore's camp. And if the spy is Lupin, there's an
additional consideration...I don't imagine the likes of Lucius and
MacNair would be happy to learn they'd been taking orders from
a werewolf.
Pippin
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