Lupin visiting Sirius in Azkaban

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No: HPFGUIDX 111893

"He suspected Black?" gasped Madame Rosmerta.

"He was sure that somebody close to the Potters had been 
keeping You-Know-Who informed of their movements,"said 
Professor McGonagall darkly. "Indeed he had suspected for 
some time that someone on our side had turned traitor and was 
passing a lot of information to You-Know-Who."
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Pippin
"I gather from this that Dumbledore was already trying to find out 
who the traitor was and had been unable to eliminate Sirius from 
his list of suspects."

Lissa:

Don't die of the shock, but I agree with Pippin! ;)  

I think Dumbledore had whittled it down (by process of literal elimination) that Sirius, Remus, or Peter had to be the traitor, but he couldn't figure out which one it was.  Sirius definitely suspected Remus (although we don't know for how long- I tend to favor a matter of days or less), and we don't really know who Remus suspected.  (That line about forgiving him for thinking Sirius was the spy can certainly be read to believing for 13 years that Black WAS guilty!)  I don't think DD wanted to believe it about any of the three of them, and I don't think he had evidence to accuse any of the three of them.

I think James's insistance on Sirius was simply that Sirius WAS his best friend, and he did trust him.  I think he still trusted DD, but simply trusted Sirius even more.  

Voldie did a pretty good job on messing with all their heads, didn't he? :)

Lissa

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