[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius revisited

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 104019

In a message dated 7/1/04 12:49:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com writes:
>Kneasy:
It's my opinion that he wasn't  thinking about Voldy, he was thinking
of himself, how clever he was. Playing the brave friend, leading Voldy
on a dance. Stupid.
If, of course, things were as he says they were. 
There is no confirmation that James knew the Secret Keeper had changed.
DD certainly didn't, he says so. And if anyone should have been informed,
it was DD. So why didn't Sirius tell him? Being clever again, or covering
his tracks?<

Page 153 POA UK version, in the chapter of the Marauder's Map.

McGonagall is speaking in the Three Broomsticks.

"...and yet, Dumbledore remained worried. I remember him offering to be the 
Potters' Secret-Keeper himself.'
'He suspected Black?' gasped Madam Rosemerta.
'He was sure that somebody close to the Potters had been keeping You-Know-Who 
informed of their movements,' said Professor McGonagall darkly.'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."

Sirius probably thought that the person was close to Dumbledore so he thought 
that if the secret was between James, Lily, Peter and himself, they would 
have been safe. But what Sirius didn't know was that Peter was the traitor. If 
McGonagall knew that Dumbledore was the SK for the Potters than more people knew 
about it, Sirius also knew that the less people in the know, the less chance 
of being known by the enemy, only the enemy was Peter and that caused the 
deaths of James and Lily. 



Batchevra


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