Trusting characters (and the SK switch)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 118895


> Madga:

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> And this is where James and Sirius fell down.  They didn't let 
> anyone else into the closed circle of their confidence (if Remus was
> considered a possible traitor and spy, then it's a sign that there
> was some kind of distance since Hogwarts), and they didn't subject
> their assumptions to the severe tire-kicking that was needed in such
> a (literally) life and death matter.

But there's a third party in this whole incident that no one has 
(IIRC) mentioned yet: Lily.

Given what we know of her personality, I don't think she would have 
gone along with the plan if she'd thought it were a bad idea.  If we 
want to postulate her as the actual caster of the Fidelius Charm (not 
unreasonable, given Ollivander's comments; we've been given the 
payoff of James' wand suited to Transfiguration, so Lily the Charmer 
would be no surprise), we give her, in a sense, the ultimate say on 
it.  I don't see her as bowing to her husband's will, or being 
convinced by Sirius' rhetoric, if she had really had strong 
objections to it.

So Peter has to have fooled her too.  An interesting situation, all 
of it.  But I am quite sure that Lily must have been in on the whole 
thing.  She's not exactly the passive type (from what we know), to 
sit around and let others make decisions about her safety and that of 
her son.  I will be very surprised if we don't get some picture of 
her being deeply in on the whole thing--but that's speculation.  I 
just think it's fairly well-founded speculation.

-Nora gets back to the eternal task of writing