The Fidelius Charm for the Potters & Voldemort

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179299

> Mike:
> Was it your impression that all those rumors about Sirius being a 
DE, 
> LV's number 2 in fact, got started just from Dumbledore's "giving 
> testimony"? 

a_svirn:
That testimony certainly sealed his fate. As Dumbledore had 
undoubtedly realized. As for the rumors, I think it was also the fact 
that he was a Black. His family had a certain reputation; his 
brother, cousins and cousins by marriage were death eaters – so he 
was tainted by association anyway. And since he was perceived as 
someone who had engineered the Potters tragedy
 why, that made him 
almost as bad as Voldemort himself. 

> Mike:
> Trusting Dumbledore; Someone (may have been Steve) wrote a post 
that 
> demonstrated how the Marauders were not like the other Order 
members. 
> Whereas the others acted like subordinates, the Marauders were more 
> like allies in the fight against Voldemort. They cooperated with 
> Dumbledore but didn't take their marching orders from him. 
> 

a_svirn:
Sirius and James – maybe. At least, Sirius during the first War. 
After POA he certainly was dependant on Dumbledore (which probably 
suited the latter's purpose). Lupin certainly doesn't give the 
impression of an independent ally. His motto was "ours not to reason 
why" in HBP and he expressed his eagerness to be used blindly by 
Harry in DH.