A Thought about the Secret Keeper Switch

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 117046


Pippin: 
> 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?
> 

Marianne:

This theory makes me long for more detailed information regarding 
James and Sirius in their Hogwarts days.  We've been told that they 
were both very intelligent and also great troublemakers.  But we 
don't know anything about what sort of things they got up to, other 
than the glimpse of that atrocious scene with Snape and the long work 
to be come Animagi.  Were these the type of kids who took what they 
learned and applied it in ways that that made their professors tear 
their hair out?  Did they hatch elaborate schemes at school for their 
own amusement, which was worth paying a price of detention when 
caught simply because the escapade was so good or so much fun?  

If that's the case, and somehow it fits with the feeling I get about 
how these two operated together, then I can see them falling into the 
same pattern as young men in the way that they would plan something. 
It would make completely logical sense to the two of them (and 
evidently intelligent Lily also agreed to this).  It would be a way 
to not only finger the spy, but also make the spy realize that the 
two bright boys had pulled off another one.

Marianne