Unfortunate!Peter

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 118244


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sharon" <azriona at j...> wrote:

<massive snip>

> Juli:
> > So, DD knew Peter was alive and still he let Sirius
> > spend 12 years in Azkaban? I don't think DD could be
> > that cruel. If he knew Peter was alive wouldn't he ask
> > some questions? He may have thought Sirius was the SK
> > but still I would have some questions, like why would
> > an inocent man spend 12 years as a rat? He may not
> > have mentioned it but he must have thought he was
> > dead.
> 
> Azriona:
> Falling back on the Spy!Peter theory - DD knew that Peter was 
> alive, and by outing him as the true culprit of the events at GH, 
> he would have outed his second spy.  Snape had already been outed.  
> DD couldn't afford to lose another spy.  Why he chose to sacrifice 
> Sirius on Peter's altar, I don't have a clue.  But obviously, Peter 
> is much more important to DD than Sirius Black.

Perhaps it is a suggestion that that action doesn't really make sense 
for Dumbledore to do, then, to deliberately sacrifice like such...and 
perhaps that kicks a bit of a hole in a theory.  After all, when you 
end up with things that really make no sense, sometimes it's because 
of holes in knowledge, and sometimes it's because the theory doesn't 
mesh with actuality, known or unknown.


> Juli:
> > Then WHY would DD want LV to return?
> 
> Azriona:
> Because if DD waits for Harry to grow up and become a man, the 
> series will be longer than 7 books and JKR will go the way of 
> Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and no one really wants that.

I suspect that argument was done in jest, but no fair skipping from 
internal plot arguments out to meta, really. :)

That's a big problem for me, too.  DD seems content, even focused, on 
this delaying plan wherein Harry can get experience, grow up, and 
some things can possibly be changed in the WW for greater 
preparedness.  It's completely and utterly in DD's best interest to 
keep Voldemort down as long as he can--but Peter's escape and the 
events of GoF really throw a wrench into everything there, and we 
have a Harry facing Voldemort before it was really ideal.  I can't 
imagine any way that having Voldemort brought back earlier rather 
than later is advantageous to Dumbledore's plan as stated at the end 
of OotP.

-Nora stays up late to catch the early train to catch an early 
flight, and then *poof*