divide and conquer. potters, sirius and DD

[Sherry Gomes]

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Ceridwen:
Ooh, yes.  Very good question that I've seen touched on elsewhere now that
the debate about the cloak is opening up new venues.

Lupin was suspected.  Sirius was suspected.  Who knows?  Maybe even James
was suspected - what better place to hide if you're guilty than as one of
the potential victims?  Maybe the web of lies and mistrust was so pervasive
that even DD was suspected.  Didn't someone mention that no one could trust
anybody else at the height of VWI?

But, Sirius and James trusted Peter.  He might not have seemed the type, he
seemed too wrapped up in his hero-worship of James, or whatever.  Sirius and
James, and most likely Lily too, thought that making him the SK would be a
good idea, a switch no one would dream of.  Slightly dismissive of Peter,
but everyone seems to dismiss him.

A trusted person, or someone who wasn't seen to be smart or brave or
treacherous enough, could start a whispering campaign like this.  If it is
anyone, I would go with Peter, who had his own reasons to pit allies against
each other.

Ceridwen.



Sherry now:

I would go even farther down this road.  I had this idea last night.
Perhaps it wasn't even as bad as suspecting DD of treachery, but maybe
someone was telling James that DD was not looking out for their best
interest, was going to manipulate something.  It didn't have to be sinister,
just something to make James and Lily feel they could not quite trust him to
be the secret keeper.  And Maybe that same person was telling DD that there
was something fishy about that Sirius Black, or about Lupin, or about James.
It's an old trick, divide and conquer.  One ratty person, or one completely
unsuspected person could have done this easily with a nasty little
whispering campaign.  Just sow some seeds of distrust in the minds of all
the parties involved, and you end up with hopelessly unprotected Potters and
eventually orphaned Harry.  I really like this theory!

Sherry