A Thought about the Secret Keeper Switch

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No: HPFGUIDX 117013


--- 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?


My computer really hates me today, I had just written a reply to this 
post and when I was about to send it it just erased it, oh well I'll 
just write it again.

I think the reason James chose Pettigrew as their Secret Keeper is 
that who in their right mind would ever think the idiot, no brains of 
Peter would be their secret keeper? MM says he was chubby and really 
not good at duels, if he was going to be tortured how long could he 
resist? not much. Voldemort as smart as he is would think that the 
secret keeper would be someone strong, like Sirius or maybe even 
Lupin. So why Peter? to make Voldemort go looking for Sirius (who was 
also going hidding), Peter would be safe and the Potters alive. And 
besides, they suspected Remus was the spy, so they were 4 marauders 
who trusted each other more than anything, one (Remus) was a *spy* so 
he's out of question, the second (Sirius) also in great danger, so 
who does this leave us with? Peter, the rat (in every meaning of the 
word). Even DD offered, so why did James refused? because he was 
trying to find out who really was tha spy, or to confirm it was Lupin.

JULI