[HPforGrownups] Re: How Sirius' death suits Dumbledore? Was: Re : Harry's Role in OotP (long)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 130633

> Nora:
>
>The original merits would have been avoiding the obvious (Sirius) 
>and thus (hopefully) gaining some more security in what were 
>apparently very difficult times.  Of course it goes badly wrong, but

>James and Lily agree to doing it, with three parties being fooled 
>badly by the fourth.  We don't know anything more about the
scenario.

> Gerry:
> Actually it was a very good plan. The only problem was that the
> person the three of them trusted, just like he was trusted by the 
> rest, including Dumbledore, was a traitor. If Peter had not been a
> traitor nothing would have gone wrong with this plan. That it did, 
> was not Sirius' fault, nor James's nor Lily's. If you want to blame

> someone except Peter and LV for the deaths of Lily and James, why 
> not blame Dumbledore, or any other member of the Order. All were 
> taken in by Peter.


The Peter-as-SK plan was not a good one.  I'm curious as to why
everyone thinks it was.  The fidelius charm was not designed for
long-term protection; if the Potters were really going into hiding
for as long as it took for Voldemort to be defeated, then they had to
be realistic enough to know that it might take years.  Relying on a
weak reed like Peter was not a good idea for longer than a few days.

Let us say that Peter wasn't a traitor, that he was what James and
Sirius thought he was: "weak, talentless" (Sirius), needed all the
help he could get (Lupin).  Is this a person who's going to stand up
to anyone who might be willing to use violence to find out where the
Potters were hiding or how they were able to hide?  (Assuming that
the DE's didn't know about the fidelius charm.)

So the only way it would work would be if Peter himself went into
deep hiding for an extended period of time.  Now James Potter had
enough funds that he didn't have to work (according to JKR) so being
cooped up with wife and child in a house in a small village might
seem quite cozy.  Are we sure that Peter had the same resources? 
Could Peter live without going to a 9-5 job?  Probably not.

And what about Remus?  If he was the spy that Sirius (and presumably
James) thought he was, wouldn't he tell the DE's that Peter was the
weak link if they wanted to find out where the Potters were hiding? 
And if they couldn't find a sign of the Potters, wouldn't Remus be
able to tell them where Peter was likely to be hiding?

There were a lot more things wrong with this plot than Peter being a
traitor.

Magda

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