divide and conquer. Potters, Sirius and DD

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 158528

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...
>
Carol responds:
Are you suggesting that Snape might have been the spy who was
revealing information on the Potters to Dumbledore even though Peter
admits to the role in PoA? Surely the spy and the person who spread
mistrust among the Order members so that Remus Lupin and Sirius black
each thought the other was the spy was the same person as the
spy--Peter Pettigrew. It's suggestive to me that he's even sitting
between *Lily and James* in the photo Moody shows Harry. Snape could
not have spread discord among MWPP because they didn't trust him. Only
Peter, whom they thought incapable of treachery and seemed so devoted
to James, could have done that. Not to mention that snape was not a
member of the Order at that time. He was spying for Dumbledore and
posing as a loyal DE. AFAWK, he had no contact with Sirius Black or
any of the others at that time. (Black didn't know that he was
teaching at Hogwarts, as he must have begun doing as of September 1
the year the Potters were killed, or that he had been a DE, so he
could not have known that he was spying on the DEs for Dumbledore,
either.)

Nope. The person spreading the discord has to be the spy, who is
canonically Peter Pettigrew (though I'm sure that Pippin can provide
canon for showing that it might have been Lupin).

Carol, who thinks that Peter's information led to the deaths of the
Prewetts, the Mackinnons, and many others besides the Potters