DD and the rat (was:Re: Minerva McGonagall-/Dumbledore)

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 115642


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
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> Because it did cross my mind that to send the Potters to their doom
> you don't need to tell Voldy their address, you only need to tell 
> him Peter's address. 

Except that why WOULD anyone go for Peter.  Most people don't 
immediately say "Hey, I'm going to go check out and destroy the 
weakest link of the chain first"...

Well, maybe YOU do, Kneasy...

But you're not playing with Evil Overlord Logic, as Voldemort pretty 
much is.  (Going for the child he 'identifies' with first?  What 
number is that, but I'm sure it's on the list... 
www.eviloverlord.com). There's no good reason to go chasing after 
Peter when you have the known quantity (best friends with James, 
cocky, brash) Sirius Black to chase after.  The wrench in the works 
is that Peter is also a known quantity to Voldemort--he's a traitor 
to the Order.  Sirius/James/Lily don't know that Voldemort has inside 
information on Peter, but that hidden link is what spells doom.

> Peter breaks and gets the blame - but he doesn't, because he did 
> something totally unexpected - he survived. Voldy didn't kill him
> once he'd been drained dry. There should have been another
> body at GH - the SK who gave them away. But he lived and the true
> author of the disaster must wipe him out as soon as possible, he
> probably knows more than is healthy for the well-being of the
> hidden double-dealer.

Why would Voldie kill someone who was already (so far as we can read 
canon, and it hasn't been contradicted) his spy?  That part of your 
argument just doesn't make sense.  IF the SK had been loyal, then 
Voldie would have had to torture him to get the secret out--and there 
probably would have been a body elsewhere, *then* two bodies at GH.

I think you're arguing with the assumption that Peter wasn't actually 
Voldie's spy already, but things work out so much more smoothly if 
you take that canon as given and then work out why things happened as 
they did.

> As Sirius says, "You should have died!"

Death to traitors, and all of that good stuff, ya know... :)

-Nora now *wishes* that JKR had answered the Wormtail question