/ESE!lupin questions (long)

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 146137

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spotsgal" <Nanagose at a...> wrote:
>
> > Sherry now:
> > i think the answer to how Sirius and Lupin knew the prophecy is so 
> > obvious and easy to understand.  I believe Alla mentioned it last 
> > night, but i will again.  i am sure that James and Lily would have 
> > told Sirius about the prophecy.  possibly Lupin as well.  We don't 
> > know if the potters suspected Lupin, only that Sirius did.
> 
> Christina:
> 
> You're absolutely right; even if the Potters did suspect Lupin, once
> Voldemort's special interest in the Potters surfaced, it probably took
> the Order a little while to even suspect a traitor.  In that amount of
> time, the Potters would be hopping from place to place without yet
> realizing that somebody within the Order was betraying them.

Annemehr:
There may have been plenty of time for James to have told all the
Marauders.  In PoA, Sirius said Peter had been passing information to
Voldemort "for a year."  Since Harry was fifteen months old when Lily
and James were killed, that would mean that for a while after Harry
was born, there was no traitor suspected amongst them.  The prophecy
itself was made some months before Harry's birth.  So there was plenty
of *time* for Dumbledore to tell the Potters of the prophecy, and the
Potters to pass the news on to Sirius, Lupin, and Peter while the
Marauders were still quite intact.

I have really no doubt that James would have told his friends about
the prophecy.  The only questions remaining are: at what point did
Dumbledore realise that Lily and James fit (unfortunately, the "thrice
defied" clause makes it completely uncertain), and how closed-mouthed
was Dumbledore about it?

Annemehr