[HPforGrownups] Re: The REAL Spy

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 168323

From: anne_t_squires <tfaucette6387 at charter.net>
>Not to mention Mad-Eye Moody, Dudley Dursley, Gregory Goyle, Colin
>Creevey, Dedalus Diggle, Ted Tonks, Filius Flitwick, Florean
>Fortescue, Moaning Myrtle, Poppy Pomfrey, Stan Shunpike... I'm sure
>there's more...

That's IT! The traitor in DH is going to be.... Stan Shunpike! Who do we suspect less than him? Mrs. Figg? 

Getting a little more serious (but I would not put it past JKR to make Stan a real DE), it has been well demonstrated that it is difficult to detect if someone is under the Imperius Curse. Now, good people (such as Rosie) have been subverted to help evil while appearing good on the outside. What if an evil person is subverted to act as a good person. That would be a way that a DE could gain the confidence of the OOP; the DE allows him or herself to be Imperiused to the point where s/he actually believes him/herself to be one of the good guys. This opens the door to a BUNCH of people being DE agents, notably: 

1) Lupin, who was missing all those years.
2) Minnie the Cat, who you may note Dumbledore holds at more of a distance than would be likely for his assistant and ally. 
3) Hagrid. Knew Tommy way back when, and would be a tempting target. Certainly, Hagrid has GOT to be smarter than he pretends to be. And there are those mysterious nocturnally visits. At the very least, he should know almost as well, if not better, than Sluggy how much that stuff in his cabin is really worth. 
4) Cousin Deadly. Was really magic, but was "cured."

Bart