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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118428


Renee wrote:
> <snip> I don't see what harm it could do to tell James the spy went 
> under the name Wormtail. So he would have told Sirius. What did DD 
> think Sirius could do with this information? And if DD suspected 
> Sirius *before* Halloween 1981 (is this canon?) he was criminally 
> irresponsible anyway, to allow him to be the Secret Keeper. 
> And are you saying James & Sirius wouldn't have suspected Peter if 
> they'd been confronted with the name Wormtail? 

Carol responds:
All we know is that Dumbledore suspected that someone close to James
was the spy and he offered himself as Secret Keeper. It was James who
insisted on Sirius despite Dumbledore's objections and Sirius who
insisted on Peter, a change that DD apparently didn't know about.
There's no criminal irresponsibility involved since he had no control
over the situation. He no longer had the authority to "allow" or
forbid MWPP or Lily to do anything. They were out of school and of age
to make their own decisions, right or wrong.

Carol