[HPforGrownups] Cedric and Pettigrew (was Re: Faking Sirius' Death?)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 91825

Pip!Squeak noted:
> Two words: 'heavy' and 'lifting'. The house was destroyed; I reckon
> it fell down on top of Harry (the mysterious wizarding ability to
> survive normal accidents protecting him from falling masonry).

Could be other ways though. "Accio baby" perhaps. Also, it appears that
Hagrid was on his own getting Harry out, you'd have thought that a bit of
assistance would have been in order, given the importance of the occasion...

Pip!Squeak again:
> Maybe. But Snape could have easily *not* known who the traitor was.
> If he'd been told by DD that Sirius was the Secret Keeper then only
> Sirius *could* be the betrayer. Peter might want to betray, but if
> he wasn't the Secret Keeper, he had no way of revealing the Secret.

Possibly so. Canon doesn't help here. I've surmised elsewhere that Snape
_did_ know and should have been Voldemort's 3rd man at Godric's Hollow,
instead he chose that moment to change sides.

It also depends on how you read the missing persons in the graveyard scene.
If Snape is the "traitor", then he must have been fairly high in Voldemort's
organisation to be mentioned in that way.

Meanwhile, Annemehr wondered:
> I don't know how the WW at large found out, but since OoP I wonder if
> DD hadn't had one of those "reliable methods of communicating" with
> the Potters, or some sort of trouble detector.  In a world with
> sneakoscopes and foe glasses, and magic two-way mirrors, I would think
> he would have.

Only problem with the theory of the "surveillance device" is to wonder who's
watching it, and why. Everyone believes that the Potters are safely
protected by the Fidelius. If that's so, then having someone sitting in the
same room as a trouble detector could look like overkill. And DD definitely
_does_ trust the Fidelius, otherwise he wouldn't be using it to protect
Grimmauld Place.

Annemehr:
> Dumbledore wouldn't send anyone from the Ministry.  Hagrid is someone
> DD would trust with his life, and handily enough, stunners (and who
> knows what else) bounce right off him.  He might have sent *only*
> Hagrid because of the trust factor, too.

There were (and still are) members of the Order who are aurors. Assuming
they weren't on duty elsewhere (and where else would they be that night?)
then they'd be far better fitted to take on Voldemort than Hagrid, who's got
good natural defences but who (as JKR has mentioned) isn't that hot at
magic.

Cheers

Ffred

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