Imperio'd Member of the Order (WAS: Snape's position)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 92552

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, bufo_viridis at i... 
wrote:
> > ~Phyllis quoted:> 
> > "'Sturgis Podmore,'" said Hermione, breathlessly.  'Arrested 
for 
> > trying to get through a door.  Lucius Malfoy got him too.  I bet 
he did it the day you saw him there, Harry.  Sturgis had Moody's 
 Invisibility Cloak, right?  So what if he was standing guard by the 
 door, invisible, and Malfoy heard him move, or guessed he was 
there,  or just did the Imperius Curse on the off chance that a 
guard was  there?  So when Sturgis next had an opportunity - 
probably when it  was his turn on guard duty again - he tried to 
get into the  department to steal the weapon for Voldemort...but 
he got caught and sent to Azkaban...'"  (OoP, Chapter 26)
> > 

Viridis:
> >Which bring another question: is there a spy in the Order? 
Because if Malfoy didn't hear him moving (which is one 
possibility), he might have known somebody was there - where 
from?

 Even Malfoy would not blast Imperii into the empty room in the 
MoM - too much explaining to be done, too much suspicions. 
Even with his influence, it would look bad.<<

Finally, someone else is interested in what happened to poor 
old Podmore! I was beginning to think nobody cared. <g> Yes, 
Hermione's explanation sounds  weak.  It would be risky 
to fire an Imperius curse at  an unknown  person...what if they 
were able to resist? 

The surge of happiness Harry feels from Voldemort in 
Umbridge's office coincides with Podmore's sentencing, which 
pretty well disposes of the idea that Podmore himself is the 
traitor. Voldemort wouldn't be happy about a DE going to 
Azkaban. As I've said before, it's interesting  that this clue was
left for the reader to discover--the Trio never make the 
connection.

So who is the spy, and did he kill Sirius because only Sirius 
could interrogate Kreacher and be sure of extracting the whole 
truth? That Kreacher wasn't the only spy?

 I'm still sure  ESE!Lupin is the spy but much more obviously, it 
could be Snape.  We never did find out what happened to that 
missing invisibility cloak. Did Podmore have it when he was 
arrested or did it fall into Voldemort's hands?

 If so, then there might have been an invisible Death Eater in the 
room when Sirius died. And of course it wouldn't be the first time 
that Snape used an invisibility cloak to sneak up on Harry.


Pippin