Quite honestly after I had some time to think more about it both Sirius and Peter are in theory good disposable pawns for Albus. Only for different reasons.
Sirius comes from a family that has reputation. It's much easier to set up Sirius for fall as we saw in the canon- it didn't take much to get him sent straight to Azkaban. He might be harder to control but once you set him on path he is like a wrecking ball.
Peter on the other hand is like a mouse from Albus' perspective. He falls into the background, he is easily threatened, not much of magical talent... On paper he might make a decent spy- you wouldn't exactly trust him too much but occasionally he could bring an interesting nugget from the other side. But he also makes a decent fall guy- easier to control but you might work a little harder to make sure nobody would milk him for the information you don't want to spread.
So as I said- if Albus wanted Harry vs Voldemort confrontation as early as possible and Potters didn't want to make him the Secret Keeper then yeah both Peter and Sirius could work. It just depends on how Albus thinks the situation would work out better and what his later plans are.
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Date: 2023-03-09 02:44 am (UTC)Quite honestly after I had some time to think more about it both Sirius and Peter are in theory good disposable pawns for Albus. Only for different reasons.
Sirius comes from a family that has reputation. It's much easier to set up Sirius for fall as we saw in the canon- it didn't take much to get him sent straight to Azkaban. He might be harder to control but once you set him on path he is like a wrecking ball.
Peter on the other hand is like a mouse from Albus' perspective. He falls into the background, he is easily threatened, not much of magical talent... On paper he might make a decent spy- you wouldn't exactly trust him too much but occasionally he could bring an interesting nugget from the other side. But he also makes a decent fall guy- easier to control but you might work a little harder to make sure nobody would milk him for the information you don't want to spread.
So as I said- if Albus wanted Harry vs Voldemort confrontation as early as possible and Potters didn't want to make him the Secret Keeper then yeah both Peter and Sirius could work. It just depends on how Albus thinks the situation would work out better and what his later plans are.