divide and conquer. potters, sirius and DD

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 158512

>
> Sherry now:
<SNIP>
> 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!
>

montims:

And Peter was working for LV - had been his spy for a year.  Even if Peter
didn't have the skill to invent just the right thing to say, LV could have
made some very good suggestions, and coached him on delivery.  As could -
who better? - Snape, either directly (but we don't know that he was aware of
Peter being a spy) or indirectly to LV, without knowing who would be
disseminating the false data.  Snape would know when DD was away from
school, for example, and be able to plant suggestions that he was
elsewhere...