Pettigrew was Potter's Secretkeeper...

[ibchawz]

No: HPFGUIDX 161086

Jeremiah wrote:
As far as posts saying "but Hagrid and Dumbledore and everyone else
knowing..." wouldn't it make sense that members of the Order would
have been told the Secret by Pettigrew? They were in on the Secret
and could do their business. Same with Sirius and possibly McGonagal.
But, Peter holds the Secret and if Harry was not told by Peter where
he lived then he may never know where to go.


Beatrice added:

hmmm... but if Peter revealed the location of James and Lily to the
members of the Order, wouldn't they know that Peter was the Potter's
secret keeper, not Sirius? Or would the Order members simply allow
Sirius to rot in Azkaban for 12 years while they celebrated
Voldemort's vanquishment?

ibchawz responds:

I think the list of people that were informed of the secret by Peter 
Pettigrew was very limited.  Obviously, Peter told Voldemort.  

It is possible that Sirius Black knew the secret.  I think it is 
safe to assume that he was informed of the secret by Peter.  The 
other explanation for Sirius appearing at Godric' Hollow after the 
fact was that the secret was broken and he suddenly remembered where 
the Potters wer hiding.  Beyond that, I can't think of anyone else 
that has indicated that they knew that Peter was the secret keeper.

I think the list of people that were not told the secret was a lot 
longer.  During this time, Order members suspected each of of being 
Voldemort's spy.  Sirius and Remus suspected each other.  The number 
of people told the secret would have been kept to a minimum to 
reduce the risk of the spy learning the secret and taking action on 
the information even if they could not tell Voldemort.

Dumbledore was not in on the secret.  He gave testimony to the 
Ministry of Magic that Sirius Black had been the secret keeper.  If 
he had been told the secret he would have known who the secret 
keeper was.  His dislike of the dementors alone should have been 
enough reason not to send an innocent man to Azkaban for life.

Hagrid, McGonnagal, and Flitwick did not know as they all told Fudge 
in The Three Broomsticks that Sirius had been the secret keeper.  
The same line of thinking holds true for Arthur and Molly Weasley.  
They, along with many others, thought Sirius Black had escaped 
Azkaban to attempt to murder Harry.  Even Remus Lupin thought that 
Sirius was the secret keeper until he saw Peter on the Marauder's 
Map and the Shrieking Shack encounter in POA.

IMO, the logical conclusion is that the secret was broken either by 
Peter's infidelity or by the destruction of the object of the secret 
(James and Lily or the house).  

ibchawz