A Thought about the Secret Keeper Switch

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 117007


--- Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> The thing that gets me about the great SK-switcheroo is 
> that even if Peter hadn't been a traitor, it wouldn't 
> have worked.  
> 
> Let's say Peter wasn't a spy and a traitor, that he stayed 
> on the side of good but that his personality was the same.  
> 
> Sirius is the decoy, Peter is the SK and the Potters go 
> into hiding.  Voldemort comes looking for the Potters.  He 
> kidnaps people associated closely with James and Lily.  
> Sirius holds up under torture and doesn't reveal anything.  
> Ditto Lupin, who has the additional benefit of not knowing 
> for sure anyway.
> 
> Can we really see Peter holding up under torture? Voldemort 
> might torture him just to find out Siruis' whereabouts but
> can't you see Peter spilling everything including the Secret?


The thing is I don't see Voldemort going after Peter
at all, anyone would think: Peter? No way, he's too
weak, too *stupid* and not strong. There's no possible
way for LV to think even for a moment that little
Peter was the SK, He would think first of Sirius,
Lupin, Dumbledore, any auror, but Peter? Nope. So
probably the switcheroo would have worked IF Peter
wasn't a spy, he could have hidden (or stay close to
DD for that matter) and the secret would be safe and
so would be the Potters.

JULI