Cedric and Pettigrew

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 91867

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" 
<manawydan at n...> wrote:

> We know that Peter was a spy for Voldemort well before he 
became the secret keeper.<

No. We know there was *a* spy for Voldemort well before Peter 
became the Secret Keeper. Sirius  accuses Peter of passing 
information to Voldemort for a year before, but this is never 
confirmed.

I put forward an alternate scenario: James, who doesn't want to 
believe that any of his friends are spies, tells ESE!Lupin about 
the secret-keeper switch. Lupin runs along to Voldemort, who 
captures Peter and bullies him into giving up the secret.

I believe that Snape thought that Sirius was the spy and that he 
tried to warn James. That was why Snape reacted with such 
horror to the idea that Sirius had not been the secret-keeper. He 
was thinking that James had switched on his information.

Fred:
> We _don't_ know when exactly Snape went to Dumbledore, 
just that he faced grave personal risk in doing so.
> 
> We know that Snape hated James Potter.
> 
> And it's a believable assumption that Snape was one of the 
"absent" DEs inthe graveyard scene, thereby having been one of 
Voldemort's inner circle.<<

Pippin:
Since Snape has the Dark Mark and felt the summons, I'd say it's 
more than an assumption.

Fred:
> I put all of those together to assume that:
> 
> Peter is made secret keeper. He runs along to the Dark Lord, 
does a little dance of glee and tells him that he knows where the 
Potters are hiding. Voldemort rubs his hands together, twiddles 
his moustaches, etc, and decides that Peter will take him there. 
As a special treat, he tells Snape to come too, to see his enemy 
get fried.<<

But Snape was already Dumbledore's agent at that point. "He 
rejoined our side before Lord Voldemort's downfall and turned 
spy for us at great personal risk. " There would have been no 
chance for Snape to return to LV as a spy if he came over the 
night of the Potters' demise.

 And Dumbledore would have known from Snape's account that 
Peter was the Secret-keeper, for only the secret keeper can give 
the secret away.  

Pippin