Dumbledore, Pettigrew and the Spy (Was: Snape didn't murder the Potters)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 138633


> Bookworm:
> This question has occurred to me, too.  During CoS, he calls Harry 
> into his office simply to ask if there is anything Harry wants to 
> tell him.  Of course, everything Harry doesn't want to say enters 
> his mind before he tells Dumbledore there is nothing.  Later we 
> learn that Dumbledore, as a Legilimens, really could "see"
> it.  
> 
> 1. Did Dumbledore not use Legilimens to find the spy?
> 2. Was Pettigrew an accomplished enough Occlumens for Dumbledore
not 
> to detect him? 
> 3. Did Dumbledore know and use Pettigrew to pass misinformation? 
> 4. Any other possibilities?

Sure. Pettigrew was not the spy and Dumbledore never believed he was. 
He  refrained from saying so, because he knows that 
the Dark Lord will murder Peter if he believes that Dumbledore has
seen through the charade, and Harry will be out someone who owes him
a life debt. 

That Peter was marked and betrayed the secret does not prove that he
was the spy. Morfin's false confession casts  doubt on Peter's,
which was already suspect IMO, since it was extracted under duress by 
two men who were suspects themselves. Peter may have been bullied
into confessing to be the spy just as he was bullied into giving up
the secret. Alternatively, he might have been enchanted so that he 
really believes he was the spy. 

As for who the real spy was, who do we know besides Snape who might
be skilled at occlumency?

"An odd, closed expression appeared on Lupin's face." -- PoA ch 14
"Don't ask me to fathom the way a werewolf's mind works." --PoA ch 19

Pippin