TBAY/Ring/Hagrid&MaraudrMap/Adults/GoodPlan?/Animagi/Devi'slSnare/Sirius/QWC

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No: HPFGUIDX 131014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:


> Actually, I think it was a somewhat flawed plan in the first place.
> altho' Very brave of Sirius. He meant to be decoy/bait for LV; the bad
> guys who assumed he was the Secret Keeper would capture him and
> torture him to give up the secret, but even if they killed/destroyed
> him, he couldn't give them the Secret because he wasn't the Secret
> Keeper. But it didn't occur to him that he *could* tell them that
> Peter was the Secret Keeper *and* tell them where Peter was hiding.
> And whatever combination of Cruciatis, Imperius, Legilimency and
> Veritaserum they were using would override their impression that
> choosing a vulnerable weakling like Peter as Secret Keeper was too
> idiotic a thing for reasonably intelligent Potters to have done.
> 
Gerry

But if they would know that Sirius disappeared and then Peter, they'd
know their secret was discovered, they could find a new hiding place
and a new secret keeper. If they discovered early enough Sirius was
missing Peter could have found a new hiding place in time. 

Gerry