Lupin Loved Lily

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 100360

alina at d... asked:
> Here's a question though, did Lily and James know that Peter was 
> made Secret Keeper instead of Sirius? Seems to me their knowledge 
> isn't a prerequisit of the Secret spell.


> Sherrie responded:
> Lily might not have known, but James certainly did - it was he who,
with Sirius, made the decision to switch to Pettigrew.

Carol adds:
Their knowledge may not have been a prerequisite of the spell, but it
was certainly in their best interests to know about the switch, and
common decency and common sense required whoever was casting the charm
to inform them of the Secret Keeper's identity if they didn't choose
him themselves. And surely if James knew, he would tell his wife, the
other person intimately involved and the mother of the child the charm
was primarily supposed to protect? (I realize that someone else has
quoted canon to indicate that they both knew about the switch, but I
wanted to present these arguments anyway just because they seem to me
to be self-evident but apparently are not.)

More important, someone had to place the complicated Fidelius charm on
Peter, and we know that Dumbledore didn't do it. The only other person
involved who was particularly skilled at charms was Lily. (James's
forte, like Sirius', was transfiguration, and we know that Lupin
didn't even know that the Secret Keeper had been changed, much less
cast the charm.) So I would guess that Lily not only knew about the
charm, she performed it herself, making Peter Secret Keeper after
Sirius suggested it and James agreed to it. 

Carol