Secret Keeper, Godric's Hollow, revisted

[songbird3411]

I haven't posted here in a long time, but I have lurked rather 
consistently.  I must preface this post by saying that I currently do 
not read any other HP lists/boards.  So, I have no idea if this idea 
has been discussed at HPfGU main, or elsewhere.  Terribly sorry if I 
am repeating something.

I read with interest all the speculation about Jo's recent comments 
about Pettigrew, Secret Keeper, Godric's Hollow, etc.  Heaven knows, 
I am fascinated with the topic of what really happened at Godric's 
Hollow.  I definitely think there are twists to be revealed there.

The most recent speculation here centered on who knew the Potter 
Secret and when.  I think what people are trying to get at is how 
Dumbledore knew about the attack and was able to respond so quickly, 
right?  

Okay, I now venture unto unfamiliar territory.  This post will be 
Faith centered.  Faith and I are not very close friends, as I do not 
find her to be a terribly fun or exciting muse.  However, something 
about all this speculation on who knew what about SK/Godric's Hollow 
pulled me in Faith's direction.  Shockingly.

It seems to me that if Dumbledore knew about the attack so quickly, 
someone at the scene must have tipped him off.  The problem we all 
seem to be running into is whether this informant was privy to the 
Secret or not.  

Now, most of us are working under the assumption that there was 
someone else present at Godric's Hollow the night of the attack.  
Someone other than Voldy and the Potters.  I do not think Faith 
discounts this, so I will work under this assumption as well.  

I am now going to trash any theories related to Puppetmaster!DD in 
regards to these events.  I do admire this theory a great deal.  
However, I can't support it enough to the point of believing that 
Dumbledore left an innocent Sirius to rot in Azkaban.  (Ramblings of 
imprisoned DE's are tricky, but I am just going to have to let them 
go.)

So, what I need is an informant at the scene who can alert Dumbledore 
without Dumbledore ever being aware of the SK-switch.  What I am 
looking for is an informant who was at the scene, in on the Secret 
and therefore fully witnessed the ensuing events (and can, most 
importantly, testify to what really happened later).  So, I am also 
tossing any theory which has the informant as someone who was not in 
on the Secret and couldn't have seen exactly what happened before the 
house was destroyed/Secret was voided.

Option A is one that seems to be popular around here: Severus Snape.  
This theory seems to go that Pettigrew's information got back to 
Snape, directly or indirectly.  Snape went to Godric's Hollow that 
night, by himself or with Voldy.  This requires Snape to know that 
Pettigrew was the spy all along.  This also requires Snape to let an 
innocent Sirius rot in Azkaban.  I guess I don't find that bit too 
unlikely.  However, the Shrieking Shack scene in POA looks a bit 
problematic to me if I work under this assumption.  Remember, I am 
working with Faith here.

There is another option that I am somewhat surprised has not been 
discussed here.  I mean, I am as big a Snape lover as anyone.  
However, we may be making this chain of events much more complicated 
than necessary by including Snape here.  Perhaps the solution to this 
problem is quite simple indeed.  Who would have been at the scene, 
fully cognizant of the Secret, fully witnessing the events, and still 
could have alerted Dumbledore without tipping DD off about the SK 
switch?

Could the informant have been, perhaps, Peter Pettigrew himself?  I 
am not sure how likely it is, but it does seem to hold a certain 
logic.

Using WYSIWYG, if there was an attack, Dumbledore would have assumed 
immediately that Sirius was the spy and had betrayed the Potters.  
Would anyone have been suspicious if Sirius and the Potters had let 
their good friend Peter Pettigrew in on the secret?  What if Peter 
claimed, a la Sirius, that he got concerned and went to check on the 
Potters.  A shocked and distraught Peter could have alerted 
Dumbledore fairly quickly to the attack.  Why Pettigrew could even 
have decided to throw any remaining suspicion off himself by 
confronting the betraying Sirius in front of loads of witnesses the 
next day.  Why, poor Pettigrew!  He first had to witness the death of 
his beloved friends, and then was murdered by their betrayor.

Okay, there you go.  My first, and maybe last, attempt to spculate 
with Faith.  Admittedly, not as fun a solution as speculating about 
dear old Sevvy.  However, it feels much less problematic to me, 
especially in regards to POA plot/characterization.

Mindy, who will go back to the more wild speculations about 
horseclucks now.