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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