Kreacher, Buckbeak and Harry's Brain

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 97602

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "caesian" 
<caesian at y...> wrote:

> 3) That LV can't control when Harry will have a vision - but can 
tell when  he has had a  vision that upsets him greatly – just as 
Harry can tell when LV is feeling strong emotions.  
> He thus knew precisely when Harry had had the vision, and 
Kreacher was alerted.  But how would they alert Kreacher from 
outside Grimmauld Place?  
> 

How indeed? Thank you caesian, for a signal contribution to 
ESE!Lupin theory! I've been saying that Sirius had to die because  
if he had lived, he could have extracted information from 
Kreacher that would implicate Lupin, but I've never been able to 
say what that information  was. I've been going on the 
assumption it had something to do with Podmore, but there was 
really no reason for Kreacher to be involved in that.

This is better. IMO, it  was Lupin, in communication with Peter by 
means of the magical mirrors the Marauders used to contact 
one another, who told Kreacher when to act. 

If only Sirius had stayed behind as he was supposed to, he 
needn't have died. Kreacher would have admitted to defecting to 
the Malfoys and injuring Buckbeak, Sirius would have murdered 
him in a fury, and all Kreacher's other secrets would have been 
safe. 

Alas, Sirius left Kreacher behind, subject to Dumbledore's far 
more searching and less vengeance-driven interrogation. 
Kreacher gave away much, but not everything--not who had 
instructed him when it was time to injure Buckbeak.  He was 
lying to Dumbledore, despite legilimency. But Kreacher could not 
lie to Sirius without punishing himself. If Sirius lived, Kreacher's 
falsehoods would be detected.

Sirius had to die.

Pippin