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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115898


Pippin asked:
> 
> Does Peter have the brains or the power to have been 
> Voldemort's spy for a whole year?

Carol responds:
What he did in the duel with Sirius apparently took brains, didn't it?
Blowing off his finger, turning into a rat, and making himself look
like a murder victim, whether or not he actually blew up the street
and killed the Muggles, which I think he did? (He probably made sure
that Sirius had his wand out, though, so it looked like he did it.) 
But as for spying, all he had to do is report what happened in the
Order meetings and reveal names of Order members so the DEs could kill
them off one or two at a time. It *must* have been the spy's
information that was used to locate the people who were murdered
(Marlene Mackinnon, Benjy Fenwick, the Prewitts, etc.), and I see
nothing in canon to indicate that Peter could not have given that
information directly to LV and quietly returned to his supposed
friends. No lying or cleverness involved; just silence and a pretense
of horror with each new victim. This is a man who, after living as a
rat for twelve years, can AK an innocent boy without a second thought.
If he can do something that cold and evil, he can pretend to be loyal
to the Order while he was revealing the names of its members to
Voldemort. And having betrayed all those others made it that much
easier to betray James and Lily and their infant son.

Carol, who just wants to know what happened at Godric's Hollow and the
confrontation between Sirius and Peter without complicating matters
with conspiracy theories