A Thought about the Secret Keeper Switch

[carolynwhite2]

No: HPFGUIDX 116972


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> We've been wondering how two such clever people as James 
> and Sirius would manage to come up with such a half-baked 
> idea--if Voldemort came after Sirius, as he expected, how could 
> Sirius be sure he wouldn't give away the switch under torture?
> 
> Well, there's that old standby, the suicide pill -- but maybe 
Sirius 
> and James were expecting Voldemort to come after Sirius 
> another way. I think they expected that the spy in the Order would 
> try to trick Sirius into giving him the secret. Sirius would 
pretend 
> to fall for it, and when Voldemort attacked the wrong place, it 
> would prove who the spy was. Thoughts?
> 
> Pippin


Carolyn:
This begs all the old questions about how widely known the SK plan 
was amongst the Order.

It also raises some curious questions about how James & Sirius 
thought others saw them. Why would any member of the Order think they 
could trick Sirius? He's supposed to be not only uber-smart, but 
James' loyally devoted friend.

There is also the thought that this *was* the plan, but it was one 
suggested to James by Dumbledore, who had concerns about Sirius as 
well as other members of the Order. 

Whichever: are you suggesting that this plan was carried out, Sirius 
knowingly 'allowed' Peter to trick him, and was somehow interrupted 
in warning James that he had found the spy? Or told Lupin, before 
going to confront Peter?