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

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 118441


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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

Renee:
Oh, I agree. I was merely reacting to Pippin's suggestion that 
Dumbledore specifically suspected Sirius. If his suspicions were 
more general (as I believe, too), there was nothing he could have 
done, short of robbing James's friends of their freedom.

Renee