Two Wormtails was Re: Plot in OotP (wand confusion)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 118351


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Renee" 
<R.Vink2 at c...> wrote:

> 
> Even so, I don't quite understand the argument, because if 
James had  known there was a spy called *Wormtail*, would he 
even have taken the slightest risk to make Peter his Secret 
Keeper? And for the  taunt to work, James must have known. <

Pippin:
A good point, but  we've been told explicitly, in OOP, that 
Voldemort's taunts don't always work. Harry's visions of the 
Department of Mysteries were supposed to taunt him into going 
after the prophecy, but Dumbledore hadn't told him about it, 
contrary to Voldemort's assumptions.

The same sort of thing could have happened here. Voldemort 
assumed that the name "Wormtail" would get back to James, but 
Dumbledore kept it to himself. 

Pippin